Ray Davis

Raymond Davis March 29 1940 July 5 2005 was the original bass singer and one of the founding members of The Parliaments and subsequently the bands Parliament and Funkadelic collectively known as PFunk His regular nickname while he was with those groups was Sting Ray Davis Aside from George Clinton he was the only original member of the Parliaments not to leave the ParliamentFunkadelic conglomerate in 1977 He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of ParliamentFunkadelic