Ray Wilson (musician)
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Ray Wilson (born 8 September 1968 in Dumfries) is a Scottish rock singer, who got his start in the grunge band Stiltskin; they released one album and had a number one hit in the UK with the single "Inside". He is the cousin of Ian Wilson, better known as Ian Catskilkin, of UK Indie band Art Brut.
Ray started off in a band called Guaranteed Pure in the early 1990s. They released an album called Swing Your Bag, the title track of which was included on a compilation album on the label of Fish entitled 'The Funny Farm Project : Outpatients '93'.
In 1997, Wilson joined Genesis following the departure of former vocalist and drummer Phil Collins. Genesis went on hiatus after one album, Calling All Stations, and a tour with Wilson.
Wilson went on to record a solo project called "Cut_", which he has described as sounding the way the next Genesis album might have sounded had the band continued with him. The album Millionairhead was released under this name.
In 2003 he released a solo album under his own name titled Change. The next year he released another studio album entitled The Next Best Thing, which included a cover of "Inside". He is currently touring and promoting the second Stiltskin album "She". A UK release is set in September 2006.
DJ and trance producer Armin van Buuren has produced remixes of the songs "Another Day" (retitled "Yet Another Day") and "Gypsy" from Millionairhead. Both remixes have been released on van Buuren's own albums, and "Yet Another Day" was also released as a single.
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[edit] Solo Albums
- 2001 Unplugged (renamed Live and Acoustic)
- 2003 Change (album)
- Change (single)
- Goodbye Baby Blue (single)
- 2004 The Next Best Thing
- These Are The Changes (single)
- 2005 Ray Wilson Live
- 2006 An Audience and Ray Wilson (limited edition CD and download)
[edit] Guaranteed Pure
- 1993 Swing Your Bag
[edit] Stiltskin
- 1994 The Mind's Eye
- Inside (single) #1 UK
- Footsteps (single) #19 UK
- Rest In Peace (single)
- 2006 She (album)
- She (single)
- Lemon Yellow Sun (single)
[edit] Genesis
- 1997 Calling All Stations
- Congo (single) #29
- Shipwrecked (single) #54
- 1998 Not About Us (single) #66
[edit] Cut_
- 1999 Millionairhead
- Another Day (Germany-only single)
- Millionairhead/Sarah (radio promo)
[edit] Other collaborations
- 2000 "Big City Nights" (with Scorpions) (Moment of Glory)
- 2002 "Love Supreme" Turntablerocker (Smile)
- 2003 "Yet Another Day" (with Armin Van Buuren) (76)
- 2005 "Gypsy" (with Armin Van Buuren) (Shivers)
- 2005 "Roses" (with RPWL) (World Through My Eyes)
[edit] Trivia
- The band Genesis was formed in 1967, whilst Ray Wilson was born a year later in 1968.
- The only studio-album cover songs Ray has done is "Space Oddity" by David Bowie on the Cut_ album, Millionairhead and "Inside" from Stiltskin (10 years after it became a hit) on the 2004 solo The Next Best Thing. During his live shows, he does a variety of cover songs from Genesis, Black Lace,Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Stiltskin, The Eagles, Bob Dylan, Cyril Smith,Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, U2 and Mike & the Mechanics.
