Editing Ray Lynch (section)

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{{short description|American musician and composer}}
{{for|the American football player and coach|Ray Lynch (American football)}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name                = Ray Lynch
| image               =
| background       = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name       = Raymond Lynch
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1943|7|3}}
| birth_place        = [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]]
| genre               = [[New-age music|New-age]], [[Instrumental music|instrumental]], [[Classical music|classical]], <ref name=NotNA/><ref>{{cite news|title=Tickertape|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/80s/1989/CB-1989-06-03-OCR-Page-0002.pdf|access-date=December 11, 2023|work=Cash Box|via=World Radio History|date=June 3, 1989|page=2|quote=Lynch doesn't cozy to the new age tag, but we're stumped for what else to call his witty, electronic keyboard classicisms.}}</ref>
| occupation        = Musician, composer
| instrument        = Guitar, lute, keyboards
| years_active     = 1967–1974; 1980–2000
| label                = Ray Lynch<br/>[[Music West Records|Music West]]<br/>[[Windham Hill Records|Windham Hill]]
| website            = {{URL|www.raylynch.com}}
}}

'''Raymond Lynch'''<ref name=Raymond/> (born July 3, 1943) is an American guitarist, lutenist, keyboardist, and composer known for his [[New age music|new-age]] releases in the 1980s. 

In the late 1960s, Lynch performed on the [[lute]] in New York's Renaissance Quartette, but he withdrew to California and began incorporating [[electronic music]] elements, as heard in 1983's ''[[The Sky of Mind]]''. He vaulted to fame in 1986 with the single "[[Celestial Soda Pop]]" and the 1984 album ''[[Deep Breakfast]]'', becoming the first independent new-age artist certified Gold for sales of 500,000.<ref name=Birth/> His album ''[[No Blue Thing]]'' topped the ''Billboard'' New Age album chart in 1989. Lynch sued his label [[Music West]] and joined [[Windham Hill Records|Windham Hill]] in 1992 before retiring in 2000.