The spiritual love child of 90s R&B, contemporary gospel, and Flower Power-era pop rock, Ray Curenton is a songwriter and producer who has a hard time coloring within the lines. A Columbus, OH native who’s decidedly made Nashville home, Ray's music is a genre-defying, progressive approach to soul and pop music. His lyrical content is equally focused on deconstruction, mixing themes of faith, sexuality, and politics to communicate his own version of the Good News outside of the four walls of a church. Finding more inspiration from the past than the present, the artist looks to the paths forged by inspirational renegades like Tramaine Hawkins, Bebe & Cece Winans, The New York Community Choir, and Sylvester. In that vein, with his latest project Believer, a.k.a. The Last Shall Be the First, Ray's mission is to position himself within the traditions of The Weavers, Sweet Honey In The Rock, Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, and Arlo Guthrie as a modern cultural worker and storyteller of the struggle of this generation, weaving spirituality and art into political consciousness.