About Ray Soletto

Choice of Instrument: Acoustic/Electric Guitar (Takamine: EG140SGC)

Playing Style: Finger-style (Standard and Alternate Tunings)

Years of Experience: 35 Years

Current Music Played: Original material

Past Influences:

Bread,Deep Purple,America, ZZ Top, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Styx, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, ELO, Supertramp, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Moody Blues, Yes, Rush

Present Influences:

Michael Hedges, Preston Reed, Leo Kottke, Pierre Bensusan, Martin Taylor, Eric Tingstad, Sam Pacetti, Chris Rice

Classical Influences:

Mozart, Debussy, J.S. Bach, Barber, Holtz, Tchaikousky, Stravinsky

Driven by:

A personal desire to awaken latent musical talents, gifts and inspiration within me. Plus the subjective power music’s influence can have on mankind’s intellect both on the conscious and subconscious levels.

Desire:

To join with like-minded musicians in forming a band for the purpose of entertaining and uplifting the inner spirit and soul of humanity.


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