Unsung

Whether singing, playing guitar, or crafting smooth-sailing hits like Jack and Jill, The Other Woman or You Cant Change That, Ray Parker Jr. made success look easy. But behind the show-biz façade, Parker was an obsessive musician - a guitarist whod cut his teeth with Motowns house band, the Funk brothers, as a teenager, and later played with Stevie Wonder and Barry White. Long before his emergence as a headliner, hed written hits for White and Chaka Khan, while crafting a Grammy winning single for Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing for which he never received credit, a hard lesson in business that drove him to contemplate suicide. All of which was just a prelude to Parkers own Grammy winning triumph with Ghostbusters and the controversy which followed, in which he stood accused of plagiarizing someone elses hit. A double-dose of baby mama drama, family loss, and an ill-advised decision to leave his safe haven at Arista Records accelerated his descent from the top of the charts. But Ray Parker proved unsinkable, and along with testimony from his extended musical family including Cheryl Lynn, Chaka Khan and Clive Davis - he tells Unsung the tale of his still-unfolding journey.