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RAY ANGRY is a pianist, producer, composer and arranger who is one of the most in-demand artists today.  Classically trained with roots in gospel, Ray has one foot firmly planted in jazz and the other stirring the pot of pan-global pop. As a prolific artist — in the studio and on the road — Ray spans the globe and genres for collaborations with today’s new and veteran artists. Ray’s resume since the ‘90s bursts with names such as Jeff Beck, Wynton Marsalis, Mark Ronson, Q-Tip, Yolanda Adams, Daniel Winans, Joss Stone, Sting, Me’Shell Ndegéocello, Esperanza Spalding, Terri Lyne Carrington, Cindy Blackman, a duo of Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart, Estelle, Richard Smallwood, Dionne Warwick, Dianne Reeves, Queen Latifah, D’Angelo, Lauryn Hill, Kelis, Christina Aguilera and ongoing associates, The Roots.
  
Ray is the CEO and Founder of Mister Goldfinger Music Group – his company has released the album, Ray Angry One and singles from his Public Domain project.  Upcoming new releases include an album capturing the magic of his weekly NYC live show, Producer Mondays, and Ray's solo piano album, Ray Angry Three.
 
Active in the film and television world, Ray’s work includes Amy Schumer’s Life & Beth, Seasons 1 & 2 on Hulu; Seasons 1 - 5 of Inside Amy Schumer on Paramount+; the award-winning short film Aisle 2; Expecting Amy on HBO; the documentary film, Why Is We Americans?; the new, critically acclaimed and multi-award nominated documentary film, Descendant on Netflix (along with an upcoming soundtrack album on BMG); the upcoming film, The Lockdown on Paramount+, the upcoming documentary feature, Out of Breath, and Amy Schumer’s upcoming new comedy special on Netflix.   Ray can be seen weekly on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as a member of the house band, The Roots, as well as a frequent performer on NBC’s Saturday Night Live.   
 
Stepping into the orchestral arena, Ray’s symphonic debut, Black Athena ~ Power recently premiered with great success with the Lexington Symphony in November 2022.

Call it the alcoholic lovechild of two roving delinquents. Los Angeles-based Juan Wayne emerged in the middle of 2018 from the dark outer recesses of the minds of songwriters Andrew St. James and César Maria while out on tour in support of the former's 2017 solo album The Big Ole Veronica Apology Record.
 
Once returned home from the road and huddled in seclusion in Maria's Koreatown apartment, the pair recorded two records on an 8 track tape machine. Part concept, part earnest autobiographical reflection, the collaboration quickly gained traction through their native San Francisco songwriting community, resulting in live performances replete with cowboy hats and boots and a bevy of supporting players culled from acts as diverse as Tino Drima and Deltron 3030.
 
The first of those two records, Juan Wayne 1, was released in December 2020, a slice of brevity reflecting the duo’s undeniable kismet. They follow it now with Juan Wayne 2, out September 16, 2022 on St. James’s imprint, Peaches.
 
Juan Wayne 2 finds our heroes, hearts forever on sleeves, gaining new perspective, with fresh eyes on an emerging new future. The duo’s lifelong friendship yields a profound connection, melded together as always by two distinct narrative voices so intertwined - both through personal history and heartache, and shared influence - that it becomes difficult to distinguish where one ends and the other begins. 
 
Herein the root of new beginning takes shape. Best seen and heard to be believed, Juan Wayne rides.

Grammy Award winning keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen has been touring and recording with Wilco since 2002.  He cultivates multiple projects including Quindar - remixing the NASA Film and Audio Archives, Expandards - new original music with Isaac Koren, and composing work for commercials / tv / film.

Jorgensen lives and works in Ojai, CA

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