Ray Covey

Ray was born in February 1957. The doctor that delivered him told his mother, that she had her own little Elvis, because his hair was long and dark. Little did she know, but many years later her son was to be a Elvis Tribute Artist.  Ray has always loved Elvis’s music.

One day back in 1989, Ray attended a costume party with a friend that begged him to attend and told him he should dress like Elvis.  The party was at a large club and was a live broadcast from a popular Rock-N-Roll station in Houston.  When Ray entered the whole place went crazy!!  The Bouncers played along and Ray had his own bodyguards all night.  Everyone was buying him drinks, he danced an lipsynched to every Elvis tune that night.

A month later he invested in a karaoke machine and taught himself how to sing.  Ray worked hard every night, practicing and studied Elvis’s voice, word for word.  In 1990 he tried it out in public for the first time at a karaoke club in Pasadena, Texas.  Ray told himself if the crowd liked it he would continue to sing, if not he would give it up.  The crowd cheered after he sang and from that moment on he was hooked.

I have known Ray for more than 15 years, and he has a heart of gold.  Ray donates his time for anyone in need.  He sings regularly at Senior homes, Hospitals, all the charities through out the Houston and surrounding area’s.  He even shuts down his own business in the afternoons three to four times a month to sing for the Nursing homes.

His voice is so close to Elvis’s that many people say he is lipsynching. Ray is good friends with many of the Elvis’s personal friends and band members.  John Wilkinson is one of Ray’s best friends.  Ray sings over 300 or so songs, and sings from his heart.  His feelings are in every song he sings from his soul, you can tell he feels it.  My name is Bonnie, and I know this is why God gave us this man to help keep the memory alive.