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Article: One-hit wonder or spicy throwback? His manager once managed Spice Girls, so Jimmy Ray's hit single has people asking questions
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 6, 1998
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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 has
rocketed up the U.S. charts even before Ray has played a club date
here.
The song's infectious chorus "Are you Johnnie Ray? Are you
Stingray? Are you Fay Wray? Are you Jimmy Ray?" raises a
question:
Who is Jimmy ...