Ray Lynch
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| Background information | |
| Born |
July 3, 1943 Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. |
| Genres | Adult alternative, new-age, instrumental, classical |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
| Instruments | Guitar, lute |
| Years active | 1980–1998 |
| Labels | Ray Lynch, Windham Hil |
| Website | www |
Raymond "Ray" Lynch is a classically trained guitarist and lutenist. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to a musical and artistic family. His mother was a classical pianist and watercolor artist. At age 6, Lynch began studying the piano until age 12, where he was inspired by the music of Andrés Segovia's classical recordings and decided to pursue a career in music. He attended both St. Stephen's Episcopal School, Austin, Texas and Austin High School then attended the main campus of University of Texas for one year before moving to Barcelona, Spain where he apprenticed to the classical guitar teacher, Eduardo Sainz de la Maza, for three years.
After leaving Spain, he returned to the University of Texas where he studied music composition. While at college Lynch was invited to New York City to join The Renaissance Quartet where he performed the classical guitar and lute for several years.
In the early days of his musical career, Lynch began writing instrumental recordings that blended classical and electronic components into melodic soundscapes. His earliest albums, The Truth is the Only Profound (1982) and The Sky of Mind (1983) artfully meshed his early classical music training with spatial melodies. The latter album became an underground success. When Lynch released his third album Deep Breakfast (1984), he and his wife Kathleen sold over 50,000 albums out of their small apartment in San Rafael, California before licensing the music to a distributor.Deep Breakfast has sold over 1.4 million copies without the benefits of live performances or videos, and was the first independently released album to be certified Gold by the R.I.A.A., later being certified Platinum.
Lynch's fourth album No Blue Thing (1989) became his first album to hit #1 on Billboard's "Top New Age Albums" chart. "No Blue Thing" was also his only album to appear on Billboard's "Top 200 Albums", landing at #197.
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