About Ray
How Can I Help You?
With close to 40 years of songwriting experience, I know how to tell YOUR story through words and music.
From lyrics, strong melody, soundtracks, poetry and artistic performance, through to public speaking, acting and bespoke personalised songwriting.
I can convey YOUR feelings and ideas WITH YOU and FOR you. Captured in a song for ALL time! What a gift for YOU and your loved ones.
Ray's Bio
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 the challenges of life, including for example 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 used his deep emotionally written song, for ‘The Voice Within Project’.
This is a project to connect people from diverse backgrounds by means of ONE song and ONE voice. There was a version of the song, performed by Zoe Evans, released to raise awareness of homeless prevention organisation Shelter.
This project led Ray to come into contact with people globally, including Charles Mattocks (executive producer and creator of TV shows ‘Reversed’ & current program airing on WGN networks in America ‘Eight Days’). The award winning film maker, best selling author and nephew of the late great Bob Marley, asked Ray to write, sing and record a song for the cancer docuseries 'Eight Days'. The song 'Your Journey' featured in the last episode.
In August of 2022, Ray announced and embarked on the connective, collaborative and co-creative project The Community Anthem Project (C.A.P) and the collaboration released single in 2023 'One Voice, We Are One'.
Ray has performed as an actor in a variety of theatre plays and some independent short films. He has also been involved in several book to film projects, including writing soundtracks. Ray is also an experienced public speaker.
Ray released 2 LIMITED EDITION albums 'Garden of Life' & 'Garden of Love (Connecting IN Creativity) on CD (there are only a handful of copies remaining, message or email for details).
As a result of an expansion of collaboration, Ray has a variety of music on ALL major digital download stores (SEE the PRODUCT page & EXPANDING COLLABORATIONS page, for further details).
From these collaborations. Ray has recently been working on an incredible soundtrack, to the life of mafia shooting survivor John Cheetham. They are getting closer to securing support, to begin a documentary/dramatization of John Cheetham's astonishing life, including their co-written soundtrack.
