An AI-generated Christian artist named Solomon Ray has taken the gospel music world by storm after topping the iTunes and Billboard charts with his album «Faithful Soul.»
The devil is in the details.
An AI-generated Christian artist named Solomon Ray has taken the gospel music world by storm after topping the iTunes and Billboard charts with his album “Faithful Soul.”
Described as a “Mississippi-made soul singer carrying a Southern soul revival into the present” on his Spotify profile, Ray made waves after releasing the five-song EP on Nov. 7.
The record rose to No. 1 on the iTunes Top 100 Christian and Gospel Albums chart within days, and two songs from the project – “Find Your Rest” and “Goodbye Temptation” – currently sit at No. 1 and No. 2 on Billboard’s Gospel Digital Song Sales chart, respectively.
“Lord, I’m tired from all this stressing / Too weak to count my blessings / Ain’t got time for window dressing / Just tryna keep my soul intact,” Ray’s song “Find Your Rest,” which has nearly a million listens on Spotify, begins.
“I’ve been running hard, feet on fire / Dreams and duty tangled in wire / But when my strength starts slipping away / I still hear your voice saying,” the generic tune, which is rooted in the soul and gospel traditions, continues.
The song’s chorus lacks the creative choices, heart and soul that listeners hear in popular human gospel singers like Brandon Lake, Forrest Frank and Torey D’Shaun.
“Don’t grow weary in well-doing / Get those problems off your chest / Cast your cares on my shoulders / And I’ll give you rest,” the chorus goes.
Ray is depicted in several AI images and videos as a man wearing a gold cross necklace, a white collared shirt, a suit and a tan fedora.
“With a voice like weathered velvet and a storyteller’s cadence, he sings as if he’s testifying from experience: part Sunday-morning conviction, part Saturday-night grit,” the verified artist’s Spotify profile notes.
However, Ray did not appear out of the blue. Conservative hip-hop artist Christopher “Topher” Townsend identified himself as “the man behind the machine” in a video shared to Instagram on Nov.
