Singer and author coming from the South of France, Joanna Rays is a complete artist (dancing, singing, producing).
Open to verydifferent musical influences, she originally came from the pop-rock milieu,performing with musicians before prestigious, well-known French artists.
Year 2008 was aturning-point, as she was asked to write and sing 2 songs, “NOT THE ONE” and “MAKES ME SHIVER” that immediately revealed her to the electro-housefieldand also to the media, as she was played on most national and local radios(mostly on FG DJ RADIO) and also reached the TOP 40 Yacast clubs in France.
Boosted by thissuccess, she accepted to collaborate with new producers , leading to “RISE UP” with Michael Kaiser, and “NOMATTER” with Clubshot, titles which were widely broadcast. “No matter” even got support frominternational DJs such as Roger Sanchez, Mischa Daniels, or Thomas Gold.
Joanna didn’t stop here: she released “PRAY”, “Beating For You”, “So in love” and “My Heart Is Burning” (respectively coproduced with Fred Closer,Muttonheads and Danny Wild), on Antoine Clamaran and Laurent Pautrat’s labelPool E Music, or on her own label (Joys Productions – www.joysprod.com ) and again was broadcast atthe national level while her collaboration with Belgian producer NandoFortunato, “Like A Spell” (GunRecords), reached the TOP 20 clubs in Belgium.
But her major projects came next : first, “Happy People” (Happy Music France - Time Records Italy 2011),a fresh collaboration with her friend Danny Wild which who was boosted upbefore its launching by famous TV and radio animator Cauet (NRJ), and then gotsupport from Bob Sinclar or Stonebridge ; second, “JustAnother Day” (Scorpio Music, Joys Prod, Forever Young, Sony Canada), did areal buzz before its release in Tiesto’s shows (and then in Thomas Gold’s, DJs from Mars’s orJoachim Garraud’s), to follow up with an official daily playlist on FUN RADIOfrance and several weeks in the TOP 40 Yacast Clubs charts ! As for “Just One Night” with Raf Marchesini, with remixes by Nicola Fasano and Die Hoerer,it was widely broadcast at the international level and even ranked 1stin the Italian DJ Charts and 20th @ EURODANCE official European charts.
Year 2013 is again a rich year, artistically speaking, with newinternational collaborations, among which “Magical” with Fedo Mora (Forever Yg – It.), “You Don’t Know Me” with Tony Jaguar(House Session – Germany), “Take YourTime” with Lucas Reyes and Lemon3 (Kult Records USA – TOP 100 BeatportHouse) and of course a new single “CallingMe” (supported by Thomas Gold, DJs from Mars, Esquire…).