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Bio

I write/perform songs of Kindness/Diversity/Anti-Bullying 4 Kids💙United Nations Rep for Pathways To Peace🌎 Music 4 TV commercials📺Embrace This Life podcast📻

🎸 🎤University of MUSIC🎓🎶
80s/90s, was in the Asbury Park Stone Pony nightclub house band...my university.
Formed indie rock band called Blue Van Gogh...met with international acclaim. Toured throughout US & Germany opening for matchbox twenty.

Toured as a member of Meat Loaf late 98-2001... Appeared on The Tonight Show, The View, VH1's Storytellers, more.

Shared stages with Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Ben E. King (Stand By Me), Chuck Berry & many others.

🚀The following is all in my current orbit. 🚀

💙mr. RAY - MUSIC FOR KIDS 🧒🏻🧒🏽👦🏾👧🏾🧑🏻‍🦱
Write & perform for kids from pre-K to 6th grade for 26 years as mr. RAY. The undertow & message of all my originals is Kindness, Anti-Bullying, Inclusion & Diversity.
Been on Good Morning America and have been featured in the New York Times, Parenting magazine & the Wall Street Journal.
Was 2013 & 2014's 10th best-selling kids' artist according to Billboard Magazine...and in 2020 my kids music streams went over 1,000,000.

🎵ANTI-BULLYING PROJECT ☮
In 2015, I created the No Room For Bullies project – a series of songs and talks, after hearing about the suicide of Rutgers student, Tyler Clementi, who took his life after being shamed by another fellow student, for being gay. The Tyler Clementi Foundation endorsed & provided a testimonial for the entire project.

🎧MUSIC FOR NATIONAL TV COMMERCIALS 📺
Recorded music for many national TV commercials, including twelve Publishers Clearing House commercials.

👨🏻‍🎤BOWIE&Beyond TRIBUTE SHOW⚡
A loving, live tribute to the masterful music and theatrics of David Bowie, with an 8-piece all-star line-up of some of New Jersey’s finest singers and musicians. Also performed are songs Bowie produced and co-wrote, and glam songs.

✌🏼✌🏾UNITED NATIONS REP 🌎
In January 2021, I became an Official United Nations NGO (non-governmental) Representative of Pathways To Peace, on behalf of my musical work and messages with children... I'm a non-political ambassador of peace.

📻EMBRACE THIS LIFE with Ray Andersen Podcast 🌞
I interview kindred-spirited, positive people from all walks of life, to share how they go about making each day count
The aim is to entertain, and to hopefully inspire anyone listening who needs a spiritual nudge...to truly embrace this life.

http://RayAndersen.com