Collin Raye

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Floyd Collin Wray (born August 22, 1960) is an American country music performer, best known as Collin Raye and also as Bubba Wray.

He appeared as a member of the band The Wrays from 1983 to 1987 under the new name.

Collin Raye made his solo debut in 1991 with the album All I Can Be, which resulted in his first Number One hit in "Love, Me."

All I Can Be was the first of Raye's four consecutive albums to earn platinum status in the United States for one million copies per year.

Raye had several top-ten hits during the remainder of the decade and into 2000.

Can't Back Down, 2001, was his first album that didn't have a top 40 country hit, and his record label was dropped shortly afterward.

Before 2005's Twenty Years and Change, he did not record another studio album until being released on an independent label. Raye charted 30 singles on the US country charts from 1991 to 2007; he also appeared on the Adult Contemporary chart twice as a duet partner on two Jim Brickman songs.

Four of Raye's singles have risen to number one on Billboard's country music charts: "Love, Me" and "In This Life," 1995's "My Kind of Girl," 1995's "I Can Still Feel You" and 1998's "I Can Still Feel You" have made it to number one on the Billboard country music charts: 1992's "Love, Me" and "In This Life," 1995's "My Kind of Girl" and "I Can Still Feel You" and "In This I Can You" and "In This I Can" and "In This I Can Still Feeling "In This I Can You" and "In This Life" (My Kind of Girl" and 1995's "I Can" and "I Can Still Feel You" has...

In addition to releasing a Greatest Hits compilation, a live album, and a DVD/DVD set, he has released a total of 11 studio albums, including a Christmas album and a compilation of lullabies.

Raye published Never Going Back on Savagoro Road Records in April 2009.

Early years

Floyd Collin Wray was born in De Queen, Arkansas. Lois Wray's mother, Lois Wray, was a local musician; in the 1950s, she appeared as an opening act for several Sun Records artists, including Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins. Later, she became a solo artist in her own right, and she'd occasionally bring Collin and his brother Scott (known professionally as Scotty Wray) onstage to perform harmony vocals. The two brothers formed the Wray Brothers Band, a country-rock band formed in the 1980s, in which Collin assumed the stage name Bubba Wray. The Wray Brothers Band appeared primarily in Texas; Corvallis, Oregon; and later in Reno, Nevada; eventually releasing singles on independent labels. The band (which had shortened its name to The Wrays) signed to Mercury Records in 1986, releasing four singles. The Wrays disbanded after the singles had flopped on the charts.

Personal life

In 1980, Raye married Connie, who later divorced. They have a daughter, Brittany (born February 10, 1983), and a son, Jacob (born March 31, 1985). Raye and his daughter and granddaughter live in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Solo career

In 1990, he was signed to a record contract with Epic Records after changing the spelling of his last name to Raye. "All I Can Be (Is a Sweet Memory)", his debut single, "All I Can Be," debuted in 1991, achieving a peak of No. 77. On the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, 29 places rank 29. Raye's first album, also known as All I Can Be, was released shortly afterward.

Skip Ewing's co-written ballad "Love, Me" debuts at number one on the country music charts in early 1992, and it remained at the top spot for three weeks. The Recording Industry Association of America in America (RIAA) later designated All I Can Be platinum. "Every Second" was the album's last single, peaking at No. 10. Billboard has a 2nd option.

In This Life, Raye's second album, In This Life, was released in 1992. The album's title track, which served as the album's lead-off single, spent two weeks at number one and then leapt to the Adult Contemporary charts for a peak of 21. Raye appeared on "Street Justice," the Carl Weathers television drama series "In This Life," in late 1992. David Winning produced "Country Justice" in the second season of television. In addition to achieving his second platinum award, the album had three additional Top Ten country hits: "I Want You Bad (And That Ain't Nice)," "Somebody Else's Moon," and "That Was a River."

Extremes, Raye's third album, was released in 1993. It was the first time Paul Worley and Ed Seay had worked together as Raye's co-producer until 2000. Lee Roy Parnell, who wrote for Arista Nashville at the time, co-authored "That's My Story." Following it was "Little Rock," a song about a recovering alcoholic. Al-Anon, an international help group for people and families of alcoholics, as well as a song accompanying music video, was also promoted by the song's accompanying music video. The Top 10 hits "Man of My Word," "My Kind of Girl," and "If I Were You" were also available from the album. Raye's third top-one hit, "My Kind of Girl," debuted, while the other two singles followed top ten.

He was nominated by the Academy of Country Music for Top New Male Vocalist in 1993, alongside Billy Ray Cyrus and Tracy Lawrence, but Tracy lost to Tracy.

Raye's fourth album, titled I Think About You, was the subject. It became Raye's fourth consecutive platinum-certified album after being released in 1995. The first three singles all made it to the top of the charts: "One Boy, One Girl," "Not That Different," and the title track, whose music video received a Video of the Year award from the Academy of Country Music. Although "Not That Different" was on the charts, the album album "What If Jesus Comes Back Like That" received uninhibited airplay, bringing it to the top of the charts, taking it as high as number 57. "I Think About You" and "Love Remains" debuted at number 12, then followed by the official launch of "What If Jesus Comes Back Like That," which reached a high rank of number 21. "On the Verge" was the album's sixth and final single.

Raye released Christmas: The Gift in 1996. He also appeared on Stars and Stripes Vol. a Beach Boys collection featuring lead vocals by country artists. A year later, Collin Raye's Best Hits set was released; it contained several of his hit singles from the previous five years as well as four new songs, of which three were released as singles. Both "What the Heart Wants" and "Little Red Rodeo" reached the top-five on the country music charts, while "The Gift," a joint effort with Jim Brickman and Susan Ashton, became a top-five hit on the Adult Contemporary charts, reached the top five positions. The album also included a photo of Journey's "Open Arms," with Raye's version achieving a record-high on unsolicited airplay. Direct Hits was awarded a gold medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects for exporting 500,000 copies in the United States.

The Walls Came Down was Raye's fifth studio album. In "I Can Still Feel You," the boy's fourth and final Billboard number one single, released in 1998. Both "Someone You Used to Know" and the Radney Foster-penned "Anyone Else" were top-five hits. The fourth single by Raye's brother, "Start Over Georgia," peaked at No. 3, the fourth single (co-written by Raye's brother) reached the top of the charts. 39. In which Raye addressed child violence, he was also included on The Walls Came Down. Despite not being released as a single, "The Eleventh Commandment" was turned into a music video with a number for a child abuse hotline at the end. He appeared on compilation CD Tribute To Tradition (released on Columbia label) and "Honky Tonk Heroes (Like Me)" (a major hit for Waylon Jennings in 1973, written by Billy Joe Shaver). On the latter album, Raye duets with Joe Diffie. Raye sang backing vocals on Phil Vassar's debut single "Carlene" in late 1999.

Raye released two albums in 2000: Counting Sheep, an album made up of lullabies for his children, and Tracks. "Couldn't Last a Moment" was Tracks' first single release, and it was a top-five hit on the country charts. The result of "Live This Way," which was followed by singer and actress Bobbie Eakes, was a duet. Despite Raye's first single to fall short of the Top 40 completely, it was Eakes' first appearance on the country music charts. Both "She's All About" and "You Still Take Me There" were released, but they failed to make top 40 as well.

Can't Back Down, Raye's last album for Epic, was released in 2001. Neither of the album's two singles made it to the top of the country music charts. Raye was forced to leave his job that year due to a misunderstanding with his name. Despite having no such mark at the time, he appeared on the Adult Contemporary charts for the third time in 2003 as a duet partner on Jim Brickman's "Where the Heart Is." In 2004, Raye released Live at Billy Bob's Texas, a live album, and "World History 101" for 2005.

Raye signed to the independent Aspirion label in 2005, releasing his Twenty Years and Change album. Two singles were released from the album, but neither single charted. Raye appeared in television commercials for Fruit of the Loom underwear in which he sang the jingle "You Can't Over-Love Your Underwear" during the same year. Fearless, another studio album on Country Roads Records, was released in 2006, but it did not produce any singles.

The Power in You CD/DVD set was released in 2007, as well as an EP called Selected Hits. "That's My Story," "Little Rock," "I Think About You," and "Love, Me" are among the various new songs on the site, as well as two new tracks: "A Soldier's Prayer" and "Quitters," which was co-written by Canadian country singer George Canyon. Both of the new songs were unveiled as singles in 2007, and the former reached No. 1 on his debut in 2007. 59 on Hot Country Songs.

Never Going Back, Raye's next album, was released on April 28, 2009 on the Sava Road label. "Mid-Life Chrysler" is the first song on the album. It also includes the song "She's With Me," which is a tribute to Raye's grandmother, Haley, who died from a severe yet undiagnosed brain disorder.

In 2014, Raye published his autobiography A Voice Undefeated.

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