MARTY RAYBON

Founder and former lead singer of the Grammy award-winning hit group Shenandoah, Marty Raybon offers a full spectrum of vocal entertainment. His talents are unmatched, whether he’s singing country, gospel or his personal favorite, bluegrass. He has become one of country music’s busiest artists, performing over 100 shows per year between the United States and Canada.

His latest and most exciting venture is the release of “Daddy Phone,” a heartfelt tribute to fathers separated from their children by divorce. Raybon has packaged his songwriting genius in AT HIS BEST, his debut album with current label GrandVista Music, scheduled for Spring 2010 release.

Everyone who hears Raybon knows he has a voice to be reckoned with. Dating back to his early days in his home state of Florida he sang in his family’s bluegrass band. Like so many other bluegrass artists, the grind of part-time playing and full-time work eventually got old and in 1984 Raybon headed for Nashville. By the following year he’d scored a publishing deal and moved to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, founding the group that would eventually become Shenandoah.

Raybon led Shenandoah to 22 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including thirteen number one singles, such as: “The Church on Cumberland Road” (1989), “Sunday in the South” (1989), “Two Dozen Roses” (1989), “Next to You, Next to Me” (1990), “If Bubba Can Dance (I Can Too)” (1994) and “Butterfly Kisses” (1997).

Since then, he has enjoyed many years as an esteemed performer in Country, Southern Gospel and Bluegrass genres. He grew up in bluegrass and later earned acclaim in country music, so it should come as no surprise that the latest release from Marty Raybon and his band, Full Circle, bears the mark of both.

Raybon’s vocal abilities have garnered numerous accolades throughout his career. Those he treasures most are from his peers in the industry. Gary LeVox, lead singer of the mega supergroup Rascal Flatts, views Raybon as “The greatest singer on the planet to this day!” While esteemed music critic and scholar Robert K. Oermann exclaims “There are few more thrilling vocalists in America than Marty Raybon.”

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