In our largely ignored, yet continuing series of "obscure and uncool AOR bands no one gives a rat's ass about" meet Stingray!
They hailed from South Africa in the late 70ies, I remember their debut album getting a gushing review in one of the teen rock mags I read at the time (I always wanted to buy that album, but never got round to, in 2021 it was finally released on CD). They swam in that no man's land between Starcastle, Toto (like them they had two keyboarders in the line-up), Styx, Kansas and Boston, but even poppier (vocals are a bit too dominant in the mix, I come from the Deep Purple school of production where the vocals are just another color, not overshadowing everything else). Their songwriting is lauded to this day in AOR circles. Of course (and understandably so), being from South Africa (with no musical ethno content whatsoever, they could have just as well been from the Midwest or the UK) at the height of that vile system called Apartheid doomed any semblance of an international career.
Anybody here ever heard of'em? They should have fared better.