“Ashes Next Door” Earns a Song of the Year Nomination — Rock Artist — at the 12th Annual Josie Music Awards, Live at the Grand Ole Opry House
Some news simply demands to be shouted, and this is that news: Ray Ray Star is an Official Nominee for Song of the Year — Rock Artist at the 12th Annual Josie Music Awards, for his searing single “Ashes Next Door.” On September 20, the biggest night celebrating independent talent and legends will unfold on one of the most hallowed stages in all of American music, the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville — and Ray Ray Star’s name will be in the room where it happens. To Ray Ray: congratulations, and take a bow. This one is richly, thoroughly, undeniably earned.
The Josie Music Awards stand as the largest independent music award show in the world, celebrated for honoring artists on merit — the craft, the songwriting, the heart — rather than major-label muscle. A Song of the Year nomination in the Rock Artist category is among its most coveted recognitions, because it honors the thing rock and roll has always been about at its core: a song that cuts through the noise and refuses to let go. “Ashes Next Door” is exactly that kind of song — raw, haunting, and unshakably honest, the work of an artist who writes from the scar, not the surface.
And what a road it has been. An internationally touring guitarist who has commanded stages around the world, a record producer and executive producer, the Director of Marketing & Promotions for the NBC-aired Real Music Live, and — as his devoted following knows — the celebrated Rockstar Psychic whose intuitive gifts have made him one of the most fascinating figures in today’s cultural landscape. Through it all runs the deeper story: more than sixteen years of sobriety, a life rebuilt around creativity, healing, and hope, and music that carries every mile of that journey in its bones. “Ashes Next Door” connects because it was lived first and written second. The Josie nomination is the industry’s way of saying what his fans have known all along.
Now the countdown begins. On September 20, at the Grand Ole Opry House — a stage graced by generations of legends — the independent music world will gather for its biggest night, and Ray Ray Star will stand among the honored. Whatever the envelope holds, the nomination itself places him exactly where he belongs: in the company of the finest independent artists in the world, recognized for the songwriting that has always burned at the center of his rock and roll heart.
Congratulations, Ray Ray Star — Official Josie Music Awards Nominee, Song of the Year, Rock Artist, for “Ashes Next Door.” The universe has been listening after all. See you in Nashville on September 20.
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