Ray Bozeman:  

Life I was born July 17, 1954 in Chicago IL. I grew up on the westside and had both parents in the home, no brothers and sisters. At age 7 was when I discovered my Love for music, which included playing in the drum and bugle corps at Manley Elementary school along with private piano lessons from a neighborhood piano teacher. My Love for music grew as I entered talent shows throughout my grammar school years. My music education became formal and I started studying piano lessons at Lyon & Healy in downtown Chicago. By age 12 during my last years of upper grade center, I began self- instruction music composition, arranging and orchestration studies. In my early high school years I found myself composing music for various theatrical productions and talents shows. My music teachers proclaimed me to be an outstanding musical prodigy during that time. In my senior year 1972, I won the outstanding award for best musicianship at a high school level and it was then that my teachers encouraged me that after graduation, I should attend the infamous Conservatory FontainBleu in Paris where the internationally known composition teacher Nadia Boulanger taught. I never went to study in Paris. In 1980, I went to Berklee College of Music in Boston MA. to pursue a bachelors degree in film scoring. in 1981 I continued my music studies at the American Conservatory of Music. C...Expand for more