Ray Isaac is Australia's first SINGING- DJ who has shaped himself into a brand that is sought after by producers and labels who admire his intoxicating lyrics and his insanely original performance style. His signature style expresses pain, love, salvation and redemption moving between fear and functional, allowing him to dictate his own brand of pop-infused Inspirational Music. 

His success is built on his ability to combine, as illustrated by Time Out Sydney, a brilliant ‘pop’ vibe to ignite his audience into a frenzy. Soon the buzz surrounding Ray Isaac will become a roar.

Los Angeles-based public radio station KCRW is one of the most respected and progressive radio stations in the world, featuring an eclectic mix of independent music, NPR news, talk and arts programming. 
 

A drag queen and a comedian walk into a bar and it's all a big joke.

Sometimes she kicks butt and takes names, and sometimes she just has a good time talking with her smart and engaging guests, from authors to actors to scientists and politicians and, once in a while, some first-class eccentrics. After all, it’s LA.

American baritone and actor of stage and screen Damon Kirsche is a leading interpreter of Traditional Popular Songs — Tin Pan Alley, Swing, Big Band, West Coast Jazz and American Songbook standards from the Golden Age of Broadway and Hollywood.
“We all thought they didn't make leading men like this for the American musical theater anymore – a gorgeous legit voice, used with delicacy as well as power.” (Dallas Morning News).
“One of the best and most versatile male voices of this generation,” (FORBIDDEN BROADWAY creator Gerard Alessandrini), “Kirsche is music theatre star material,” delivering “spine-tingling resonance” (LA Times), “riveting showmanship” (Variety), and “soaring ballads with power and panache” (Backstage). “Damon is one of the best singers of show music around today, and he has an other-worldly affinity for period styles,” (MISS GULCH RETURNS creator Fred Barton). “Kirsche has a sparkle of old Broadway/Hollywood glamour that makes every role he takes on magical.” (Broadway World). 
His concert and theatre work includes both early Broadway rarities and premieres (Kern and Hammerstein’s VERY WARM FOR MAY with conductor John McGlinn and The Gershwins’ TIP-TOES with Rob Fisher, numerous appearances both with NY’s Encores and LA’s Reprise series with Peter Matz, Eric Whitacre’s PARADISE LOST: SHADOWS AND WINGS  (as "Logos") at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, Chicago’s Auditorium Hall and the Berliner Dom, the new Harold Arlen musical ONE FOR MY BABY (as crooner “Rick Anderson”), and Seth Rozin’s A PASSING WIND at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center (as “Joseph Pujol,” for which he received a Barrymore Award nomination). Since 2003, Kirsche has starred in productions of classic works at Music Theatre Wichita, including MY FAIR LADY (Higgins), CAMELOT (Arthur), and 42ND STREET (Marsh) as well as an original production of Disney’s MARY POPPINS (Mr. Banks). Kirsche is a proud member of LA’s Musical Theatre Guild (with which he's appeared in staged concerts of WONDERFUL TOWN (Baker), FADE OUT/FADE IN (Prong), DO RE MI (Wheeler), HIGH SPIRITS (Condomine), FINIAN'S RAINBOW (Woody), PARADE (Craig), LI'L ABNER (Abner), IT'S A BIRD... IT'S A PLANE... IT'S SUPERMAN! (Superman/Clark), STREET SCENE (Easter) and OUT OF THIS WORLD (Art/Jupiter) among others. He has appeared in staged concerts with Musical Theatre West's "Reiner Reading Series," starring in ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (Bruckner) and BELLS ARE RINGING (Moss).
For over a decade, Kirsche has been the lead male vocalist for popular and critically-acclaimed West Coast vintage swing and big band leader Dean Mora and his Orchestra, playing popular tunes in their original orchestrations from Ragtime to Nelson Riddle in historic venues like LA’s Orpheum Theatre, the Wilshire Ebell, The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, The Biltmore Hotel, The Oviatt Building and Catalina’s Casino Ballroom. He recently appeared at Lincoln Center's 25th Anniversary of the Midsummer Night's Swing Series. In New York, Kirsche appears regularly with Fred Barton’s Orchestra at the Michael Schimmel Center in the “American Showstoppers” series, celebrating the works of classic American songwriters. His frequent cabaret appearances include The Metropolitan Room, The M Bar, The Gardenia, The Jazz Bakery, The Catalina Jazz Club, Eighty-Eights, Upstairs at Vitello’s (with Brad Ellis of TV’s “Glee”) and The Federal Bar and Restaurant (with Bruce Kimmel’s Kritzerland series).
Kirsche can be heard on vintage swing recordings “Goblin Market” and “Devil’s Serenade” and is featured on the recording "In Here: Music and Lyrics by Charles Bloom," as well as on the Decca Broadway Original Cast album of "The Ziegfeld Follies of 1936," and the Carnegie Hall archival recording of The Gershwins' "Tip-Toes." On screen, Kirsche can be seen as Civil War era performer Harry McCarthy in Ted Turner's epic "Gods and Generals,” gadfly talent scout Ranny Sanson in the TV series “LA Confidential,” or as the first Nuu'bari to appear on "StarTrek: Voyager.” Training: The Juilliard School. Proud member, Actor’s Equity.

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