In 2025, The U.S. State Department selected Ruby out of 100’s of artists to sing in a two-month residency at the World Expo 2025 Osaka, Japan. She sang a variety such as blues, R&B, Soul, Jazz and gospel to thousands of Expo visitors.

In 2024, Ruby makes her singing debut in Egypt on the beautiful MS Nile Paradise River Cruise ship as she performs for a private tour group of individuals from various countries.

In October 2023, Ruby was invited back to sing in The Classic Theater of Maryland’s Cabaret Series. She sang in their 1930’s Cabaret Series in October 2022. In December 2022, Ruby was requested by WPFW 89.3 FM Radio, to sing at their annual Holiday Party. In July 2023, WPFW 89.3 FM Radio requested her to sing at their event at the Luxury Eaton Hotel, Washington, DC.
 
Ruby relocated from Washington, DC to Los Angeles, CA in 2009 where she recorded a new CD consisting of 8 of her own original songs. The album titled "Solitary Blues" was released on Spotify in November 2014. In 2018, While living in Los Angeles, CA Ruby made her debut in a TV feature film, "A Stone Cold Christmas,” Amazon Prime. Since returning to the East Coast in 2021, she landed her second movie role as Doris Carter in “Trophy Wife”, BET and streaming on BET+ (Plus). In 2023, she was cast in a third feature film, “For What It’s Worth” which will air on BET+(PLUS) in October 2023.

In February 2020, Ruby and her Band performed at the 2020 African American History Month Festival in Fontana, CA. She sang at the Los Angeles National Cemetery for the 2018 Veteran's Memorial Day Service with Mayor Eric Garcetti, Congressman Ted Liu and many other dignitaries in attendance.

Ruby landed a role as a singer on the roster of Pink Lady's Star Productions Company, CA.  She has performed in the company's shows such as the 2015 Star Search at the Barnsdall Gallery Hollywood and 2016 Razzle Dazzle Broadway at The Whitefire Theatre, Sherman Oaks, CA.  She has performed in other venues around Southern California such as the WinterHawk Winery Festival in Napa Valley, the Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Fairfield, and the former NYX Club in Glendale. 

In May 2013, Ruby successfully completed a 3-month singing engagement in a 5-star hotel in Thailand. She sang blues & R&B music and entertained diverse audiences from around the world. In February 2011, Ruby completed a 3-month singing engagement in a 5-Star hotel in Japan.

Ruby and her R&B/Blues Band performed in Barack Obama's 2009 Presidential Inaugural Unity Ball at the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, DC. In 2008, she successfully completed a 6-month singing engagement in a 5-Star resort in Pattaya Beach, Thailand. She performed blues, jazz, and R&B for diverse audiences from all around the world.

The United States Armed Forces Entertainment selected The Ruby Hayes Jazz & R&B/Blues Band out of 100's of bands around the country to entertain and uplift the spirits of the troops along the Caribbean Circuit, Puerto Rico and Honduras, during February and March 2006.

A veteran performer, Ruby headlined shows all around the Washington, DC metropolitan area prior to relocating to the West Coast. She was a Headliner in the San Diego 2004 Adams Avenue Street Fair Festival, the largest free festival in Southern California. She has opened shows for international artists such as, James Cotton (former harp player for Muddy Waters) Vernon Garrett, Ray, Goodman, & Brown, the late Little Milton, The Four Tops and Cab Calloway III.

The Washington Area Music Association (WAMA) nominated her "Best Blues Vocalist" 2002. WAMA also nominated her CD, "Ruby's Blues" as "Best Blues Recording 2003." Her CD "Ruby's Blues" won The Washington DC Chapter Recording Academy's CD Contest. She was a 2002 grant recipient of the DC Commission of Arts and Humanities and a 2003 grant recipient of Jim B.E.A.M. Music.

In year 2003, WETA TV, Channel 26 featured her as a Washington DC-based blues artist in the advertisements for "The Blues" produced by Martin Scorsese.  Other 2003 television appearances include Montgomery Community Television and Prince Georges Community Television, Pattaya Beach TV & Bangkok TV, Thailand.  In 2005, she performed in the Washington, DC Blues Festival, "Divas Stir up the Blues" held at the Carter Baron Amphitheater.

Ruby started singing at age 14 leading a gospel choir in her hometown of Plumerville, Arkansas. She toured numerous towns around Arkansas before she moved to Washington, DC in the early 1970's. In Washington, DC she made her professional singing debut at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel as part of the Al Martinez jazz combo. Later she honed her skills in a rhythm and blues band called the Exclusives and performed in military officer’s clubs and major hotel ballrooms around the Washington, DC metropolitan area. In 1975 Ruby started her own jazz and blues band and she performed up and down the East Coast from New York to Florida and made television appearances on WJLA, Channel 7, and WDCA, Channel 20 in Washington, DC

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