Familiarize Yourself with Stingshark. You really should he's inevitable.
He earned his Stingshark while touring with Phat Sidy Smokehouse. They Really Wanted to call him Stingray(his given name is Brian Ray), but erroneously thought that stingrays only eat plankton. Brian has teeth that bite; Thus the hybrid, Stingshark, the word was born
Stingshark is no newcommer to the music scene. He's been performing, recording, and producing for years.
you probably know him as the guitar player from Phat Sidy Smokehouse, or maybe Marmalade, or Adrian Xavier, or Altered States of Funk, or Action Buddy, or Funkscribe, or Role-One, or Groove Fury, or Hillborne, or...
that list goes on and on.
Stingshark has toured all across the United States and throughout France and Spain. He has shared stages with such regional groups as Rubberneck, Maktub, Five Fingers of Funk, and the Super Sonic Soul Pimps, as well as national-scale names like Fishbone, Morris Day and the Time, Joe Higgs, Greggory Issacs, Eek-a-Mouse, Spearhead, The Roots, and digital Underground.
In the studio, he's produced and engineered tracks for Adrian Xavier, Rebel Star, and Funkscribe. His time in the studio has been spent with musicians like Michael Hampton and Gary Shider from P-Funk, Alicia Dara, Mattheus (Matt Kotok), Phat Sidy Smokehouse, James Hilborne, Clinton Fearon, Lonnie HMarshall, Chris Stover, Marc Cardenas, and many more!
OK. So what's the deal now? Stingshark has a grip of new music on the brink of revelation! First to be released will be "High Freakuency"; Fourteen songs to inspire your dancing feet. This music is a real move to the next level. He has been toning his production muscles and invited some amazing guests onto this record. This makes for serious groove!
Stingshark is also making moves on the eco front. All his new music (even digital downloads!) is packages eco-friendly. From packaging, to benefits, to getting directly involved in corporate America to go green, he is trying to do his part to make this world better. Come play with Stingshark; he won't bit... Too hard!
"If i could make a million dollars and give it all away, that would make me happy." -Stingshark