On 10 July 2020, Ray Barbee was a guest on Skate Muzik. Ray Barbee has been played on NTS shows including Skate Muzik, with A Word Aptly Spoken first played on 20 December 2019.

Ray Barbee is an American skateboarder from San Jose, California and along with Ron Allen and Steve Steadham one of the first famous African-American skaters. He started skateboarding in 1984, when he was in seventh grade.

A music writer and multi-instrumentalist, Barbee released in 2003 his debut EP on Galaxia records, Triumphant Procession, a collection of jazz-influenced instrumental tracks which Barbee produced and engineered at home. His 2005 release, In Full…