Joanna Rays
Singer and author coming from the South of France, Joanna Rays began producing in 2000. She is a complete artist (dancing, singing…), open to very different musical influences. She first evolved in the « pop-rock » milieu , releasing a 12-track-album early 2006, performing with her musicians to promote it on stages before renowned French singers. Year 2008 was a turning-point, as she was invited to write and sing 2 songs, “Not the One” and “Makes Me Shiver” , which revealed her to the French electro-house ground, including clubs and radios (FG DJ RADIO, FUN RADIO, NRJ, VITAMINE, CONTACT, ESPACE, NTI, HOTMIX…). Both titles were also licensed on EMI, UNIVERSAL, SONY BMG and WAGRAM compilations. Boosted by these successes, she was contacted by several producers willing to collaborate with her on their projects. Indeed “FEEL IT” with Ludoloza, “RISE UP” with Michael Kaiser (DJ resident Queen Club Paris) or “NO MATTER” with Clubshot were broadcasted on several national radios and in clubs. “NO MATTER” was even played and supported by international DJs such as Roger Sanchez, Mischa Daniels, Thomas Gold… A few months later, end 2010, “PRAY”, an hymn to hope co-produced with Fred Closer aka Digital Mode, was broadcasted on many radios and even ranked TOP 50 in official club charts. Her next single “Beating for You”, produced by Muttonheads, and signed once again on POOL E MUSIC (Antoine Clamaran and Laurent Pautrat’s recording company) was licensed in the USA and broadcast on radios such as Fun Radio, NTI, Contact… As she works on new projects with several composers such as Laurent Schark, Eric Laville, David Kane or again Muttonheads, Jay Style (FUN RADIO) contacts her to work with Mika Vyne on his new single project, “Get Me Back”, signed Summer 2011 on Wagram Records. In the meantime, her joyful collaboration with her friend Danny Wild, “Happy People” (Happy Music France / Time Records Italy), is boosted up before its official launching by Cauet (NRJ) and by international DJs such as Bob Sinclar, DONS and Stonebridge, to be eventually and officially broadcast on FUN RADIO. This is the right moment for a new adventure : Joanna then decides to launch her own artistic and record agency, “Joys Productions”, on which several DJ Producers are to sign their projects (cf www.joysprod.com), and where she signs, of course, her new singles : for a start "SO IN LOVE" (coproduced with Muttonheads, and soon in the FG DJ RADIO hotlist), and then "MY HEART IS BURNING" (coproduced with Danny Wild), as her first track signed on GUN RECORDS, "LIKE A SPELL", with Nando Fortunato is revealed to be a hit in Belgium (TOP 20 ULTRA TOP).
