Kenneth Ray (born
August 21,
1938, in
Houston, Texas) is an
American country music singer-songwriter,
photographer,
record producer,
actor and
entrepreneur.
He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone.
Two of his albums,
The Gambler and
Kenny, are featured in the
About.com poll of "The 200 Most Influential Country Albums Ever".
[countrymusic.about.com/library/top200albums/bltop200.htm Gambler & Kenny are on About.com's poll of "The 200 Most Influential Country Albums Ever"] He was voted the "Favorite Singer of All-Time" in a 1986 joint poll by readers of both
USA Today and
People.
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