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Ray Kennedy
Person · male · United States · born 1954
American country music singer
Also known as 瑞伊·肯尼迪
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1950s
Biography
English biography181 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1334248006
Biography
Ray Kennedy (born May 13, 1954) is an American country music artist and record producer. He has recorded two albums for Atlantic Records. Four singles from the albums appeared on the Hot Country Songs charts; 1990's "What a Way to Go" was a top 40 country hit and peaked at No. 10.
Born in Buffalo, New York, Kennedy won a Grammy Award in 2005 in the Best Contemporary Folk Album category for producing Steve Earle's album The Revolution Starts Now. Kennedy has produced many recordings with Earle which are collectively known as The Twangtrust.
Ray Kennedy Jr.'s father, Ray Kennedy, Sr., was a credit manager for Sears, and then a creator of the Discover Card, which launched in 1985. Ray Jr. is married to Siobhan Maher Kennedy.
As producer
Happy to Be Here by Todd Snider (2000)
The Revolution Starts Now by Steve Earle (2004)
Dream Number 29 by Cindy Bullens (2005)
Little Victories by Chris Knight (2012)
Almost Daylight by Chris Knight (2019)
Good Souls Better Angels by Lucinda Williams (2020)
Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart by Lucinda Williams (2023)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7297696genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7297696seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kennedy_%28country_singer%29biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kennedy_%28country_singer%29
Why this artist is in the database
- List of country music performers
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: no portrait (not displayed: the licence credit is missing)
Wikidata: Q7297696 · MusicBrainz: 8b063118-b19a-4781-a9e3-5da4a49ae522
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