Artist description 4 Track Pirate since 1980, with a wide variety of musical colors and flavors.Hip-Pop or Rip-Hop? Rock-n-Soul or Astral Psycidelic Punk?Barry Whitest

Music Style Soul Pop

Musical Influences Sly and the Family Stone, Arthur Lee and Love, Public Enemy, the Pretenders, A Tribe Called Quest, Burt Bacharach

Similar Artists Lenny Kravitz, Beck, Guided By Voices, Velvet Underground, Pere Ubu

Artist History Uncle Ray is the singer in !TANG, Rapper/Producer in Extinguish Her, drummer and singer for Zircus, and drummer for Alison Faith Levy.

Group Members Uncle Ray

Instruments Guitars, Bass, Drums Electric Piano, Organ, Sampler, Uke, Turntables, Tamborine, Voice

Albums "King of the Drama Queens" & "How do you Take It" by !TANG

Press Reviews SF BAY GUARDIAN 1/31/96- "Demo Tape of the Week"What we've got here is a recording stuffed with a multiplicity of textures...by the sound of this tape,(Ray is) an all-aroundRenaissance kind of guy.(Neva Chonin)(about !TANG)- Wilcox writes or collaberates on many of the groups songs, and band members saythat he added his big, soulful voice to the musical mix, it undeniably jelled the groups sound.(Rona Marech, SF Chronicle 10/29/99)Led by Ray Wilcox- the charismatic man-about-town...-!TANG has garnered itself the reputation of one of the greatest sweat inducing funk bands around.(SF WEEKLY Wammie edition 1998)...In singer Ray Wilcox, they possess a great set of pipes...(Tim Scanlon, Snackcake! 3/97)ABOUT ZIRCUS"Reportedly San Francisco's best live set... Close to Genius"(Paul Wagenseil, BAM)

Location San Francisco, CA - USA

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