Eric De Gray, has performed extensively throughout Canada, the United States, Europe as well as South America, South Africa and as far down under as New Zealand and Australia. Over the years he has performed with celebrity names such as Victor Borge, Michael Burgess, Pierrette Beauchamp, Gil Tibo, Mac Frampton, The Fifth Dimension and Illusionists The Great Tomsoni. He has entertained the likes of Chris Rich, Alan Alda, Alex Trebek, Broadway reviewers, Frazier & Garry and Academy and Emmy Award Winning Interviewer, Reba Merrill. He has been under the noted conduction of Andrew Davis of the Toronto Symphony, Elmer Eisler in the CBC Canadian debut recording of Andrew Lloyd Webbers, ¨Requiem¨, and John Rutter, one of Europe's leading composer’s in choral music, “An Evening of Rutter ”, live at Massey Hall.

He has also performed as featured guest entertainer for exclusive five and six star Cruise Lines, including Azamara Club Cruises, Seabourn Cruise Lines and Silver Seas Cruise Lines, since 1992. He has also been Guest Entertainer for other such notable cruise lines as Princess Cruise Lines, Cunard Cruise Lines for the 1994 World Cruise of the Q.E.II, and even more recently with Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's1998 flagship, Vision of the Seas. He was chosen as the Broadway representative for the Q.E.II's ¨Broadway Crossing¨ series in 2004 for which he received two encores for his one man show.

Eric has been performing Exclusively with Number One Rated cruise line, Azamara Club Cruises since May 2010 until now. Eric was chosen as the leading role for the 2011 USA touring production of ¨Gifts of Grace - Heroes of 9/11¨, a tribute to the heroes of that day.  Eric was instrumental in helping create, write the storyline, musical arrangements and direction for the show to critical acclaim with producer/arranger Mac Frampton. Amongst Eric’s favourite theatre roles include, The Beast in Beauty and the Beast, Rapunzel’s Prince in Into the Woods, Man 2 in Closer Than Ever, and Doctor Craven in The Secret Garden.  He has also sung in concert other leading-man roles from such musicals as Tommy, Hair, City of Angels, Les Misérables, and The Phantom of the Opera to name a few.  Eric is an accomplished figure skater having performed in such productions as Rosstyn Ice Shows and Karen Flannigan’s Stars on Ice.  Eric De Gray is also an accomplished musical director having conducted such noted musicals as Oklahoma, A Night At The Pavilion, which he also directed, and a tour in Canada of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for a benefit of Victims of Violence and Missing Children. He is currently performing, producing and directing shows on the award winning Azamara Club Cruises.

Eric’s compositions and arrangements have also been performed by artists throughout the years. His shows have been performed for corporations and fundraisers throughout United States, helping raise over $500,000 for each event and for celebrity functions such as Kansas  City’s Rosemount Society Event, following in the footsteps of Anne Hampton Callaway, Dixie Carter and Michael Feinstein later followed by Bernadette Peters.

Photo Michelle Graham

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