Kermit Gray was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and studied voice at Xavier University, New Orleans.  During his studies he sang opera performances including such roles as Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana, Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte and Porgy in a concert version of Porgy and Bess with the New Orleans Philharmonic.

He went to Germany with the U.S. Army and sang with their 7th Army Chorus in Heidelberg. After completing his military service he was engaged for the musical Hair in Gelsenkirchen.He was then enrolled at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, where he studied private voice with baritone Scipio Colombo. 

The Stadttheater in Lucerne(Switzerland) engaged him where he performed many roles including Marullo in Rigoletto, the Marquis d`Obigny in La Traviata and Pali in the Gipsy Baron. Mr. Gray was requested by Stadttheater to sing a Liederabend with works by Ives and Gershwin, and later participated in the International Music Festival in Lucerne, where he sang solo in the quartet of Chichester Psalms of Leonard Bernstein. 

Kermit Gray`s repertory is varied and includes such roles as the 2nd commissioner and the 1st officer in Poulenc`s Dialogues of the Carmalites, also a world premiere as the first man from the street in The King for a Day. In the same year he performed the role of Chino in West Side Story and was featured as Figaro in Barber of Seville with Opera Mobile in Basel. Along with the Vienna Symphony he sang the role of Jake in a concert production. The role of Morales in Carmen he also sang with a local Swiss Company. In the Munich Gasteig Theater he was solist in Elias Tannenbaum`s Last Letters from Stalingrad, thereafter in the Festival House in Bregenz where he Sang the role of Aeneas in Purcell`s Dido and Aeneas. In Eggenfelden and in Duisburg, was Mr. Gray to be heard as the Plant in Little Shop of Horrors.

Kermit Gray now resides in Düsseldorf, Germany where he is often heard in concerts. In the musical Mahalia he performs the part of Martin Luther King in a successful production in many theaters in Germany , Austria and Switzerland.

In the Berlin Philharmonic Hall he was guest baritone soloist in two different opera concerts.