Ray Vanderby was born in Sittard Holland in 1953 and after migrating to Australia in 1959 with his family, began playing performances on the Hammond organ in Orange NSW in 1965 at age 12, as the youngest semi-professional organist in Australia. He held a 4 year residency at the Hotel Canobolas and became a qualified piano tuner/technician with W.H. Palings & Co. while studying Jimmy Smith, André Previn and Mike Nock records. He also took up classical Bach, Grieg, Debussy studies with Gordon Smee in Orange.


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