James Ray
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former professional basketball player (1957–2023)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Journey to Eternity
- Tennessee Waltz
- Build Your Dream Body
- Incredible Journey in the Steps of Greatness
- Book of Songs
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- Listeners
- 55,329
- Total plays
- 278,109
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There is more than one artist with this name: 1) James Ray (born James Ray Raymond in Washington, D.C. in 1941, died c. 1964) was an African American R&B singer of the early 1960s. A resident of Washington, the diminutive, 5-foot (1.5-meter) singer was discovered in 1961 while destitute and living on a rooftop, and began recording as James Ray for Caprice Records. His best-known hit was "If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody", which reached #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962 and was also a to
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New Orleans
- Place of death
- Gainesville
- Occupation
- basketball player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- basketball
- Member of team
- Fenerbahçe Men's Basketball
- Position played
- power forward
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 98
- Height
- 203
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- date of birth
- 1957-07-27
- drafted by
- Denver Nuggets
- different from
- James Ray
- date of death
- 2023-12-26
- name in native language
- James Ray
- sport number
- 43
- manner of death
- natural causes
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