A biography for Rayehasn’t been written yet.
“It's not in my nature to follow rules.”
“I think there's no limit on what I've really spoken on in terms of my perspective on my blues as a woman in the 21st Century.”
“Stormzy is just one of those lovely guys who is never afraid to compliment or reach out and make someone feel good.”
“Being real and transparent is really important to me, to skip out metaphors and similes and cut straight to the point of what I'm talking about.”
“I applaud women who speak out and are loud and brave and bold about the disgusting things that they've been dealt.”
“Doing two years at the BRIT made me realise exactly what I wanted to do with my life. I had got to the point where I had the opportunities and resources available to to focus 100% of my time onto my career.”
“There's a world in which if I didn't find faith again, I might not even be here.”
“There is so much darkness and pain in this world we live in, and I wanted to create something both as deeply personal and as raw as I could find myself to be about my own mind and the world I see around me.”
“My mum's seen it all in 30 years in mental health.”
“Songwriters are the most unprotected and disrespected community in the entire music industry - especially for an industry based on songs.”
“Free healthcare is something really beautiful that a lot of countries don't have, so I just think we really have to protect our healthcare system.”
“Whenever I was presented with hardships - trauma, pain, heartbreak, confusion - I, like so many creatives, turned to my art as medicine.”
“There's an unspoken thing about the energy in south. I would spend a lot of time up and down Croydon High Street: Primark at one end, McDonald's in the middle.”
“Before I involved my parents in my career, I was so lost and I was really not doing well.”
“Music is my safe space.”
“When you sign with a record label, technically they work for you: you're signing to a company for them to work for your career and take you to that next level. But as a woman, it just doesn't feel like that. It feels like you're working for them.”
“Major Lazer followed me and reached out saying he wanted to do a session. Which was sick, because I remember always saying to myself when I was younger, 'I'm gonna have a Major Lazer collab one day.'”
“It's all about perspective: different people need different forms of musical medicine. What matters most is if the artist or musician or DJ thoroughly, passionately, loves the music they're sharing. It's so important that it comes from a place of integrity.”
“The ultimate goal was to find my way somehow to the Brit awards.”
“I just want to be a woman discussing uncomfortable topics that we don't talk about, these are all things I battled with in the darkness and in silence.”