For fifteen years, he worked for numerous publishers with Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, The Neville Brothers, and Pops Staples.
[3] In 2007, Wyclef Jean recorded Roy's "Show Me the Way Home" for a film produced and narrated by Matt Damon.
[3] He was the winner of the 9th Annual Independent Music Awards, for Best Concept Album; In The Weird Small Hours.
Roy performed at the Lincoln Center to a sold-out crowd as part of the "America Songbook" series in January 2004.
Operating out of his townhouse in Philadelphia with a table for sixteen, Roy provides home-cooked food and original songs for his diners on a monthly basis.