User talk:Emily Ray

Emily Alves da Silva de Deus (born February 3rd, 1996), known professionally as Emily Ray, is a Brazilian singer, dancer and songwriter. Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by a lovely family, Emily began making music at a young age at 4, writing songs at 8, having written more than 40 songs until today. She started taking theater and musical lessons when she was 9 years old. She learned how to play instruments by ear and her parents noticed how talented she was, therefore, they started investing her. She performed in various musical venues in her hometown throughout her childhood and started making money with music

In 2012, still very young, Emily began doing shows professionally as a back vocalist at 16 in order to improve herself as an artist and network with important producers. She graduated from high school in 2013 released her first single "Indo em Direcao ao Mar" on the radios and moved to the United Stated in 2014 to pursue a musical career and learn English at BYU, when only 17 years old. She started taking voice lessons participated in auditions for several TV shows, including The Voice, La Banda, and America's Got Talent.

In 2015, Emily got called to participate in a musical competition in Rio de Janeiro with the best song in the state. She went back to Brazil and won the second place with her beautiful song.

Months later, in 2016, she established Emily Ray Entertainment, together with her ex investor and formed her musical team (i.e.: band, dancers, producers) in order to do shows and become successful. She was recognized by the famous artist Alex Boye's ex-musical director and signed a musical contract. Later, she started working on her first album, and Emily Ray is now getting ready for the professional musical industry.

At the end of 2016, Emily Ray signed with VEVO and released her first music video of "With Me". She is now recording her first album and getting ready for tours all over and country and Latin America.

Emily Ray

Born	Emily Alves February 3, 1996 (age 20)

Macae, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Residence	Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. Occupation Singer Songwriter Dancer Producer Website	emilyrayofficial.com Genres R&B Hip- Hop pop soul Instruments Vocals guitar keyboards Flute Years active	2013–present Associated acts Alex Boye James The Mormon

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