Earlier this week we had the great pleasure of welcoming new country music artist David Ray to the 97.3 The Dawg studios and he was kind of enough to play a few songs "Live in the Lobby".

The Michigan native and former high school teacher has had quite the journey to where he is now. He's been making music for a few years now and really cut his teeth in south Florida while teaching.

It was there where he won a contest put on by Kenny Chesney called "Next Big Star". That turned out to be the springboard to him eventually going to Nashville and getting signed.

We look forward to hearing more from David in the near future. Here are some of the songs he performed for us in the lobby.

The first single from David Ray is called "Light It Up" and will be released to radio in early 2016.

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