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Article: Jimmy Ray wants respect with his hit
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 31, 1998
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Backstreet Boys, Jimmy Ray Saturday
New World Music Theatre, 19100 S. Ridgeland, Tinley Park
$25
(312) 559-1212
And now, from the same manager who brought the world the Spice
Girls, it's . . .
Spice Boy?
Well, no.
English rockabilly phenom Jimmy Ray, unlike the Spice Girls, is
not a creation of manager Simon Fuller - and he seems perfectly
content with the stage name he has adopted for himself. He repeats
it often enough in his debut hit single, "Are You Jimmy Ray?"
Mixing acoustic guitars and hip-hop beats into a style that Ray
calls "popabilly hip-hop," the catchy Epic Records single rocketed up
the U.S. charts even before Ray had played a club date here.
He opens for the ...