About Rayofla
A Life In Music.
A Company Built To Create.
I’m Ray Brown, founder and creative lead of Rayofla. My work brings together music, production, storytelling, and digital publishing. I’m building an independent production company from Budapest with roots in Los Angeles and an international outlook.
Los Angeles roots.
A production company taking shape in Budapest.
Founded In Budapest
How It Started
Hungary Became
Part Of The Work.
I came to Hungary through music, curiosity, and a camera I bought before leaving home. Filming what I discovered here opened a path into production. That experience stayed with me when I returned to work in the United States, and it is part of what eventually became Rayofla Kft., founded in Budapest in 2020.
Music, visual production, interviews, and publishing have taught me to listen closely, find the story, and make something people can watch, read, or hear. The format changes. The attention to the person behind it stays.
Today I lead and operate Rayofla myself. The ambition is to build the space, resources, and collaborations to produce more work by other people as well as my own, and pursue commercial opportunities that can support the next project.
What I Bring
Curiosity Starts It.
Production Gives It Form.
Start With A Person
A conversation, a place, or a small detail can open a larger story. I try to understand what is there before deciding what the work should become.
Work Directly With Me
I am the founder, creative lead, and the person you speak with. Collaborators and production arrangements are shaped around each project.
Production Meets Technology
My production experience guides the engines I build for web publishing, transcripts, language versions, and distribution. AI helps with the mechanics and gives human creative work more ways to reach people.
Make Room For More Talent
I want Rayofla to give more local creatives the conditions to develop and produce work, with clear credits, agreed terms, and an outlook beyond the place it begins.
The Founder’s Perspective
The Work Came From A Life In Motion.
I grew up where music, family, and image-making were connected. My father, Harold Brown, was a founding member and the original drummer of the Los Angeles band WAR. In 2025, WAR received the 2,814th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, an overdue recognition of the band’s contribution to music. I became a musician, traveled internationally, and later moved into visual production, reality television, digital media, and technology.
Those chapters never felt like separate careers to me. They became one way of working: listen closely, understand the room, find the story, and make something people can actually use.
Magyar Minute is where I speak most personally. It follows my experience of learning Hungary by living in it, looking closely, and resisting the easy version of the story.
Ray Brown, Harold Brown, and Willie Nelson at Farm Aid.
A Personal Project
My Father Helped Make The History. Now I’m Bringing It Into The Light.
Harold Brown was making history with WAR, but he was also documenting it. From the band’s early days through the decades that followed, he kept cameras close and made sure the world around the music was captured, sometimes by him and sometimes by people he trusted. The footage includes moments of family life, but its larger value is the view it gives us from inside the band’s story.
I am now opening that archive as an independent feature documentary. It brings together unseen footage, my history in music and visual production, and a story I have lived from the inside. This is the most personal work I have undertaken, and I believe the cultural record it contains deserves to be seen.
A personal interlude
Away from the desk
In 1963, Ford tried to buy Ferrari. When the deal fell through, Ford set out to beat Ferrari at Le Mans. The result was the GT40 and a historic victory in 1966. That rivalry later inspired the film Ford v Ferrari (2019).
My path to owning a Ford GT began with a public application and a one-take, 60-second video. I was one of the original 500 people Ford selected to buy the car. I went through the factory build process, choosing the paint, wheels, brake calipers, and interior. The car was built to my specifications. I collected it in Los Angeles and put more than 5,000 miles on it around Southern California.
This short film captures a little of that experience. A remarkable car, some music, and a drive worth remembering.
Watch the film · 2:05
PRODUCTION, COLLABORATION & INVESTMENT
Let’s Build
The Next Chapter.
Have a production in mind, creative work to share, or an interest in investing in the company? Tell me what you see and the role you would like to explore.