Ray Chew
Ray Chew (born c. 1968) is an American musician who specializes in keyboards and contemporary and orchestral arranging.
Chew was a member of the Saturday Night Live Band from 1980 to 1983. As of the late 2000s, he is the music director for the syndicated television series Showtime at the Apollo, and the bandleader on the The Singing Bee.
Chew was the bandleader during the 2008 Democratic National Convention and at the Barack Obama Neighborhood Ball at the First inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009.
He grew up in the Grant Houses, located on 125th Street, several blocks west of the Apollo Theater.
As of 2009, he was a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, having moved there from New York City in the late 1990s.
It was announced on December 30, 2010 that he will be replacing Rickey Minor as the new music director on American Idol. In February 2014, it was announced that he will also be replacing Harold Wheeler as orchestra leader, starting in the eighteenth season of Dancing with the Stars.
Chew, Ray Filmography
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2013, role: composer
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2012, role: composer
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2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2011, role: actor
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2009, role: composer
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2009, role: composer
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2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Musical Director
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2007, role: composer
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2007, role: composer
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2007, role: composer
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2007, role: composer
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2005, role: composer
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2001, role: composer
Ray Chew
ALBUMS
- Blue Crystal released: 1996
Ghost Rider
Pack up all those phantoms
Shoulder that invisible load
Keep on riding North and West
Haunting that wilderness road
Like a ghost rider
Carry all those phantoms
Through bitter wind and stormy skies
From the desert to the mountain
From the lowest low to the highest high
Like a ghost rider
Keep on riding North and West
Then circle South and East
Show me beauty but there is no peace
For the ghost rider
Shadows on the road behind
Shadows on the road ahead
Nothing can stop you now
There's a shadow on the road behind
There's a shadow on the road ahead
Nothing can stop you now
Sunrise in the mirror
Lightens that invisible load
Riding on a nameless quest
Haunting that wilderness road
Like a ghost rider
Just an escape artist
Racing against the night
A wandering hermit
Racing toward the light
From the white sands
To the canyon lands
To the redwood stands
To the barren lands
Sunrise on the road behind
Sunset on the road ahead
There's nothing to stop you now