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Echos & Embers
Debo Ray
Label: Debo Ray Unlimited
Released: 2026
Duration: 00:15:07
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Tracks
Going Down; Real Good Girl; A Flicker; I'm Fire Now
Personnel
Debo Ray
vocalsAdditional Personnel / Information
Echoes & Embers Real Good Girl, A Flicker and I’m Fire Now composed and arranged by Debo Ray, Jerry Velona and Prince Charles Alexander. Going Down composed and arranged by Debo Ray, Jerry Velona, Prince Charles Alexander and John Kim • Producer – Prince Charles Alexander • Co-producers – Debo Ray, Jerry Velona • Production Associate – Dan Cardinal • Recorded at Dimension Sound, Jamaica Plain, MA o Engineer – Dan Cardinal with Prince Charles Alexander • Additional recording at Q Division Studios, Cambridge MA o Engineer - Colin Fleming with Izaac Biewald and Prince Charles Alexander • Mixed by Prince Charles Alexander • Mastered by Chris Gehringer at Sterling Sound, Edgewater, NJ Personnel: Going Down John Kim – keyboards, bass and drum programming Debo Ray – vocals Jerry Velona – acoustic guitar Scott Tarulli – electric guitar Alex Olsen – synth, strings 2. Real Good Girl: Debo Ray – vocals, synth bass, piano Jerry Velona- groove concept Prince Charles Alexander – congas, harp, trap hi-hat, synth bass, strings Bertram Lehman - percussion Tom Appleman – bass guitar Scott Tarulli – nylon string and electric guitars, seagull sounds Alex Olsen – strings and synth Dave Limina – piano Dan Cardinal – drum programming 3. A Flicker: Debo Ray – vocals, piano, synth bass Jerry Velona – drums, background spoken vocals Prince Charles Alexander– synth bass, strings, background spoken vocals Tom Appleman – electric bass Bertram Lehman – percussion Dave Limina – Wurlitzer piano Jeff Lockhart –electric guitar 4. I’m Fire Now: Debo Ray – vocals, hype vocals, Rhodes piano & synth Jerry Velona – drums, popcorn acoustic guitar Prince Charles Alexander – synth bass, drum programming, sampling Tom Appleman - electric bass Jeff Lockhart – electric guitar Dave Limina – Hammond organ Alex Olsen – synth Lydia Harrell – background vocals Loren Benn – background vocals Dan Cardinal - vocoder
Album Description
Debo Ray’s highly acclaimed self-titled album continues to garner rave reviews and streams (over 360K on Spotify). But Debo’s restless creativity is on full display in her follow up EP Echoes and Embers, a highly personal musical trip that refuses to play by the rules. Bringing together vibrant grooves with her authentic, relentlessly honest voice, this record is bursting with personality and daring musical choices.
Like her album, Echoes and Embers is co-written with veteran songwriter Jerry Velona and produced by Grammy-winning engineer Prince Charles Alexander (Usher, Mary J. Blige, The Notorious B.I.G.), whose skilled production brings both polish and punch to Debo's vocals and inventive musical arrangements.
The four tracks on the EP dig deep into Debo’s previously unacknowledged mental health struggles. From the depths in the languid, hip-hop influenced Going Down to the triumphant, dance-infused anthemic power of I’m Fire Now, Debo’s genre-bending versatility combines with her other-wordly vocal ability to tell a story that resonates deeply both lyrically and musically. In between, the listener finds the defiant R&B groove of Real Good Girl where Debo speaks to how she was “put in a box” for so many years and the jazz-inflected, neo-soui bounce of Flicker where things start coming together on her journey to overcome.
What makes Debo stand out the most is that she writes from her own life experiences. Her voice moves effortlessly between intimate whispers and show-stopping belts, bringing listeners closer into her world.
Beyond the studio, Debo is a seasoned performer who with an international touring resume that includes appearances at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Newport and Monterey Jazz Festivals, and the Hollywood Bowl. She is a longtime collaborator with NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington and a core member of Carrington’s GRAMMY-nominated ensemble Social Science. She has also performed and recorded with Esperanza Spalding, Antonio Sanchez, Bobby McFerrin, and the Screaming Headless Torsos.
Ray invites audiences into her world where vulnerability meets personal power, where genres fuse and where music becomes a vessel for joy, healing, and self-discovery.
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