Stephen Bray
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Stephen Bray (born June 22 1956) or Steve Bray, as he is sometimes credited, is a successful songwriter, drummer and record producer from Detroit.
Bray befriended Madonna during her pre-stardom days at the Blue Frogge disco when she attended the University Of Michigan in Ann Arbor for dance studies. The pair went to New York and became part of the band The Breakfast Club. Eventually they began writing songs together on their own and Madonna obtained her recording contract with Sire Records from this collaborative work.
The Bray and Madonna partnership continued until around 1990 and have since drifted apart. Together they have written and produced some of the biggest hit songs of the 1980s. The songs Bray and Madonna composed often followed a distinctive structure, many of which repeats the song's second verse and bridge before fading out with the chorus.
Today Bray lives in southern California and still holds the master recordings to many Unreleased Madonna Songs including Pre-Madonna. He hopes to release them one day on a "From The Vault" collection when Madonna feels ready. In the meantime he runs Saturn Sound recording studio and Soultone Records.
Selected Credits
- Ain't No Big Deal, by Barracuda on Epic Records 1982
- Into The Groove, Madonna
- Say It, Say It, E.G. Daily
- Baby Love, Regina
- True Blue, Madonna
- Spotlight, Madonna
- Cross My Broken Heart, The Jets
- Sendin' All My Love, The Jets
- Each time You Break My Heart, Nick Kamen
- Right On Track, Breakfast Club
- Causing A Commotion, Madonna
- Express Yourself, Madonna
- Keep It Together, Madonna
- Baby Gonna Shake, Royalty
- Get Over, Nick Scotti
- Count The Days, Rhythm Of Love Kylie Minogue (on her 1990 album "Rhythm Of Love")
- Little Black Book, Gina G (on her 2005 album "Get Up & Dance")
- Stay 81 - with Madonna
- Express Yourself - For Madonna's Like a Prayer
- Keep it Together- for Madonna's Like a Prayer
- Love Attack - for Madonna during Like a Prayer sessions - remains unreleased
- Possessive Love - for Madonna during Like a Prayer sessions - remains unreleased