Brenda Ray

Stationed in North West England in the late '70s, Brenda Ray began her musical career in the age of post-punk, operating under various aliases and melding raw punk instrumentation with dance rhythms and reggae influences. During this time, Ray produced D.I.Y. recordings as part of the nebulous Liverpudlian collective Naffi, operating as Naffi Sandwich and Brenda & the Beach Balls. Several singles were issued throughout the early '80s, all on an incredibly obscure local scale. In the mid-'90s, Ray was assisting reggae producers Sir Freddie Viadukt and Roy Cousins on a project t...