Ray Coates website
Ray Coates is a singer and songwriter, poet, public speaker and an actor. He is also a throat cancer survivor of over 10 years! He is passionate about creativity and using this as a means to help himself and others cope with mental health. Collaboration is key to Ray. Inclusivity is the only option in his book.
Ray has been a singer-songwriter for over 30years and released a charity single on i-tunes, and accompanying video on YouTube to raise awareness and funds for research into throat cancer https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktre19g2Ce4
Additionally, Ray is now using his song for ‘The Voice Within Project’. This is a project to connect people from diverse backgrounds by means of ONE song and ONE voice. ‘The Voice Within’ has been performed by singer Zoe Evans and is currently being used to raise funds for the homeless prevention organisation Shelter.
http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1485352693?ls=1&app=itunes
‘The Voice Within Project’ has led Ray to come into contact with people globally, including Charles Mattocks (executive producer and creator of upcoming TV shows ‘Reversed’ & ‘8 days’). The award-winning filmmaker, and best selling author, Charles, has asked Ray to write, sing and record a song for his programme ‘Eight Days’ Charles docu-series to be aired next in 2020 on major tv channels in the USA. The song that Ray wrote & recorded ‘Your Journey’ is available for download on all digital download platforms, including:
I-tunes
https://music.apple.com/…/al…/your-journey-single/1487904923
Ray is currently recording & finishing has album ‘Garden of Life’ which is due for release at a live performance 1.5.2020 at The Limelight Theatre in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. He is also a guest speaker at the Ignite Empowerment convention on May 15 & 16 2020 in the City of Bath.
Additionally, in 2020, Ray started a weekly vlog on his YouTube channel every Friday.
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCdk2RObf3eVPtkQq6H_yugw
Finally, Ray writes bespoke personalised your story songs and is including these on the CD version of his album ‘Garden of Life’ as bonus tracks.