Gary Ray / Biography

Performed at New York City's CBGB'S and Danceteria with the post-punk bands State of Desire & The Academy.
He was a home shopping host with Q2 (son of QVC) in the mid-nineties.
Founded "Darinka", a New York City performance club of the mid-1980s where Steve Buscemi, Mark Boone Junior, & They Might Be Giants started their careers.
As a studio vocalist in the early eighties, he sang lead vocals on disco versions of "Black is Black" and "Working My Way Back To You."
A graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts NYC, 1979.
At the age of thirteen he had his first paying gig on stage. He played bass guitar every Friday & Saturday night in the house band at the rough Question Mark Bar in downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut.