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Name:	Ray Barbee
Lives In:	Long Beach, CA United States
Hometown:	SAn Jose, CA United States
Gender:	Male

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Jazz musician/skateboarder Ray Barbee joins Spy

Contributed by Janos Palko

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 12:59pm

Fans of late '80s skate films may recall the 1988 Powell Peralta classic "Public Domain," which introduced the world to a young street skater named Ray Barbee from San Jose, California. Ray would go on to be one of the pioneers of skateboarding, and one of the sport's first African American stars.

In recent years Ray has fallen back on his other passion, making jazz music. In 2003 he recorded and produced his first album at his home, and the album was picked up and released by..

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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. Barbee was on the cutting edge of skateboarding in the late '80s, being a leading pioneer of applying freestyle/flatland tricks to street, technical ollie combinations and numerous no comply variations.

He had memorable video parts in the Powell Peralta videos "Public Domain" and "Ban This". In 1991, he left Powell Peralta for The Firm, headed by another Powell veteran, Lance Mountain.