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Michael Leonard Cavada, better known as Kenny Ray is a singer, songwriter and producer. He was born in Salvador De Bahia, Brasil and grew up in Los Angeles, before moving to Italy with his family where he lives in between Milan and Trento. He started singing at six years old when he used to listen to artists like Michael Jackson, James Brown or Ray Charles with his father and sister both big music lovers.

At fourteen years old he won his first musical competition and then he started his career with the first old band called “The Cabs” with which he achieved success in many other talent contests.

All these years he worked hard to improve also his ability as dancer and in 2006 in Rome he became a professional choreographer.

The turning point of his career was the meeting with the famous Italian producer and Dj Gabry Ponte, impressed by his amazing skills as dancer, singer and songwriter. Gabry Ponte gave him the possibility to work with major international artists. In the beginning as a dancer, then as songwriter and singer signing a record deal with his label “Dance & Love” in 2012.

He wrote and featured many dance hits like “Sexy Swag” with Shaggy and Gabry Ponte, “I Love My Life” with Dj Paki, “Good Life” with Marvin and Karly, “I Love Girls” with Tacabrò and DJ Matrix, “Rockstar” with Dino Brown and “Supersmash” with Rudeejay released by Time Records.

In these years Kenny Ray had the chance to join major Festivals and live events performing at the Tezenis Summer Festival in front of 20.000 people, at the Home Festival in Treviso, Reload Festival in Turin and in many important clubs around Italy.

In 2016 he decides to focus on his solo career and he takes part in the 10th Italian edition of X-Factor where at the Bootcamp, with an amazing performance of Sam Smith “Lay Me Down” the four judges compare him to R. Kelly.

Since then Kenny has been working hard to find and experimenting the best way to express himself and his identity through his music, considering his ability to cross a vast range of styles.

In 2017, as part of this work in progress, he releases three songs: ''“You Don’t Know Me”, “90210” and “Tic Tac Toe”''.

In 2018 he releases the single "No Fight" together with the italian DJ Luca Tarantino and Renny McLean. The single is part of the same name EP released by Tarantino that includes another song featuring Kenny Ray "Kill me"

In June 2018 he will release the single "Woman" featuring again Renny McLean, with whom Kenny's working to many other projects including McLean upcoming Album.

In July 2018 Kenny Ray will join the "White Nights Festival" in St.Petersburg