Country Pop Bites: Collin Raye – February 18

Did you know that on this day in Country Music History in 1995 "My Kind Of Girl" escorted Collin Raye to #1 on the Billboard country singles chart?

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Here are 5 interesting facts about Collin Raye.

• Floyd Elliot Wray was born August 22, 1960 in De Queen, Arkansas.  He uses the stage name Collin Raye.
• His mother, Lois Wray, was a local musician; in the 1950s, she served as an opening act for several Sun Records artists, including Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins. Later, she became a solo musician in her own right; she would occasionally bring both Floyd and his brother Scott onstage to sing harmony vocals.
• By the 1980s, the two brothers began a country-rock band called the Wray Brothers Band, in which Collin assumed the stage name Bubba Wray.
• He is known for dealing with social issues in his material. “Little Rock”, for example, tells of a recovering alcoholic; its music video included the number for Al-Anon, as a means of public service announcement.
• He became the national spokesperson for the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network in September 2011.