•Raymond Rasberry was born March 10, 1930 in Akron, Ohio.  He began playing piano by ear at the age of eight.  When  he heard a song once he was generally able to play that song to the note.  He
accompanied singers in his local church playing hymns and shout music as described in the Pentecostal church where his family attended regularly.

•Raymond’s talents as a skilled musician, singer and songwriter allowed him to play for such greats in the day as Bishop Robert Hubbard, Della Reece, William Turner, Sister Wynona Carr and several others.

•By the mid 1950’s Raymond started his own group the Raymond Rasberry Singers after serving in the Army.  The group became internationally acclaimed having toured and travelled throughout singing good Gospel music.  The group recorded and sold-out
auditoriums across the country.  With each album recorded they
had continual hits.  Though each anniversary year he and the group would return to Ohio with a stellar line up of artists to celebrate his beginnings.

•The group eventually disbanded in 1966 when Raymond followed in the footsteps of Alex Bradford in a couple of ways;
one was with a multi-gender group and the other going to New York to present in the Broadway theaters.  Raymond worked as a songwriter and composer rather than Alex who went on stage as an actor.

•One of Raymond’s Many Many hits was “Touch Somebody’s Life.”



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