This paper investigates the distributed Controllability of nonlocal Rayleigh beam. The mathematical problem is formulated as an abstract di, erential equation. It is shown that a sequence of eigenfunction of nonlocal Rayleigh beam forms Riesz basis. Based on Riesz basis properties and theory of abstract di, erential equation, it is proved that a vibrating nonlocal Rayleigh beam is approximately controllable under suitable distributed control force while it is not exponentially stable.