John Farley A.K.A. Johnny Ray, began his music career in his early childhood around the age of eight, singing and dancing at family gatherings. As he grew, so did his love for music, whether it was singing to car or home audio, he involved himself with it some way, somehow. He would sit in his room and just tap away listening to what ever he could find in the house. Johnny experienced many musical influences from his Mom and Dad listening to Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Doors, Aerosmith, and Fleetwood Mac. Johnny began to evolve with the Hip/Hop scene in the early 90?s, his passion began to grow strong toward that type of genre. Johnny eventually found his first mentor and friend DJ Unique A.K.A. Baraka Branch, who taught Johnny the art of being a DJ. Johnny began to learn the techniques of blending, scratching, and mastering the style of the mixtape, studying and learning from the sounds of DJ Kid Capri, DJ Juice, DJ Ron G and more, had pushed Johnny to the top of the Hip/Hop community in his area, making him better known as DJ Kid Madness. Spinning from house party's, to the club scene with Unique and DJ Kid Tech A.K.A. James Davis, he eventually scaled to the top as a co-host on local college radio 99.5 WUSR with DJ Haze. Aside from Johnnys Dj skills Johnny grew up in a Jamaican influenced project where Johnny hung in partied with his fellow friends and adapted to their styles and culture. Johnny began freestylin rymes in a different reggae style of his own in local syphas around his hood. Many would say it was off a bit from your traditional dancehall or reggae style but it always got Johnny the respect from his fellow brethren. Once Johnny had a few songs done he would launch his reggae style at clubs when they had a gig or on their own mixtapes to see how far his new trade would god. As Johnny Mastered his new style of reggae and his music career was on the rise, so was his life, Johnny married Dj Uniques sister Wendy Johnnys long time girlfriend in March of 95 and they had their daughter Alexcia, who was born that Sept. Do to many diffrences Johnny and Wendy split in 1997 and Johnny had taken on his biggest challenge yet taking the custody of his daughter. Now that Johnny had a baby girl to look after, he had no other choice, but to take a break from the music scene at least for a while. Six years later, now that his daughter was grown up enough to understand, Johnny got back into the music scene, teaming up with long time friend James Davis, to begin to produce and develop other artist, Johnny began mastering and relearning is old sound which would hopefully lead him to develope a full Dancehall album. While Johnny developed his lyrics and image and tracks were being produced. Johnny and Slim set off for their dream to eventually establish "Dustbin Records". Producing beats for other artists already in the music scene, JohnnyRay joined his younger brothers band "Project 5", Which was a boy band that Adam felt johnny could bring somthing diffrenet to. Johnny and his partner both produced the band making two smash hits " Get Up Get Down" and "Alone Again". A year later, the band would split and go there seperate ways. Seeking artists to join the two's label, Their A/R man MOUSE had brought them a new sound in Hip/Hop T-Head, a local rapper from the area. After hearing one freestyle James, with no hesitation, began recording him right away, and T-Head landed his first EP, "Heads Up", this instantly put Dustbin Records on the map. Former Project 5 member, Larry H, along with JaQwez, T-Head, Ry'mes, and others would go on to join the Dustbin Records Family. As Dustbin Records continued to tour and record with there artists, Slim Jim gave Johnny the chance that he deserved and established a branch of Dustbin to Johnny in which Johnny formed JRayRecords. With the backing of Dustbin Records, and the creation of JRayRecords, JohnnyRay believes JRayRecords will be bigger and better then anything he has ever accomplished in the past. Johnny himself is back in the studio working with many new artist and producers for his own up coming album "The Crossings" which details events that happened in Johnnys life.