Awards & Winners

Ray Cooper

Date of Birth 19-September-1942
Place of Birth Watford
(Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, England)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Cooper, Ray, Raymond Thomas Cooper, Raymond Thomas "Ray" Cooper, Ray
Profession Percussionist, Musician, Actor, Film Producer
Raymond Thomas "Ray" Cooper is an English musician. He is a session and road-tour percussionist, and occasional actor, who has worked with several musically diverse bands and artists including George Harrison, Billy Joel, Rick Wakeman, Eric Clapton, and Elton John. Cooper absorbed the influence of rock drummers from the 1960s and 1970s such as Ginger Baker, Carmine Appice, and John Bonham. Incorporation of unusual instruments such as cowbells, glockenspiel, and tubular bells, along with several standard kit elements, helped create a highly varied setup. Continually modified to this day, Cooper's percussion set offers an enormous array of percussion instruments for sonic diversity such as the tambourine, congas, crash cymbals, cowbells, roto toms, tubular bells, the gong, snare and timpani. For two decades Cooper honed his technique; In the 1990s, he reinvented his style. He is known for the 7 minute percussion and drum solos he performed during the years 1990-1991 for Eric Clapton and for the 7 minute percussion and drum solos during the year 1994 during all the Face to Face Tours with Billy Joel, and Elton John, and the tours with the Elton John band during the years of 1994-1995.

Awards by Ray Cooper

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ray Cooper.

2004


Grammy Award for Best Music Film
Honored for : Concert for George
(Video Directors, Various Artists, Video Producers)

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Music Film Concert for George
Various Artists