Teaming up with producer and piano player Daniel Clarke (Dixie Chics, K.D. Lang, Mandy Moore, etc), "Pray For The Rain" is the debut album of Singer,songwriter, and guitarist Chris Ryan. With the help of an all star cast of local Richmond, Va musicians. "Pray For The Rain" offers up heartfelt lyrics, and songwriting driven by delicate musicianship, and soulful vocals .
Native to Richmond, Va, for the past few years Chris Ryan has been a regular sideman on the local Richmond music scene and beyond. Chris has had the pleasure of backing up tap dancing Super Star, Savion Glover, Richmond natives, D.J. Williams (Karl Denson, D.J. Williams Projekt),Jonathan Meadows (the Congress), and has held down the guitar chair in Beast Wellington, a Richmond based neo-soul and R&B favorite run by trumpeter and band leader Mark Ingraham (Savion Glover, DJ Williams Project, Bio Ritmo).
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