Ray LaMontagne

I love that Ray LaMontagne's whole career traces back to a single Stephen Stills record that rearranged his life. That is the romance of music in a sentence. Critics reach for Otis Redding and Nick Drake to describe his weathered, smoke-and-honey voice, and I understand the impulse, though he is unmistakably his own creature. Releasing Long Way Home in 2024 signals an artist who keeps carving his own sound rather than chasing trends. He is all substance over flash, the sort of songwriter who only deepens with age. I keep his records for quiet nights, and they never let me down.

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Name (English)

Ray LaMontagne

Name (Japanese)

レイ・ラモンテイン

Reading

れい・らもんていん

Born

June 18, 1973 (age 53)

Origin

Nashua, New Hampshire, United States

Occupation

singer-songwriter / musician / singer / songwriter / pianist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Ox

• Official sitehttp://www.raylamontagne.com/home/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/raylamontagne/
• Xhttps://x.com/RayLaMontagne
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20LaMontagne
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q720009

Tags

• New Hampshire
• singer-songwriter
• musician
• singer

Last updated

September 25, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.