Raye is a British singer and songwriter from London. She is best known for featuring on Jonas Blue's 2016 single "By Your Side" and Jax Jones' 2016 single "You Don't Know Me", which peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart. She was short-listed for the BBC Music Sound of... award for 2017 and was named in third place.
Raye is best known for featuring on Jonas Blue's 2016 single "By Your Side", Jax Jones' 2016 single "You Don't Know Me", which peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart.
Raye was born as Rachel Keen on 24 October 1997 in Tooting, London to a Ghanaian-Swiss mother and an English father. More information about her parents and siblings are not yet revealed. She holds British nationality and belongs to mixed ethnicity(Ghanaian-Swiss, English). She follows Christianity and her zodiac is Scorpio. She later moved to Croydon. Raye studied at Woodcote High School in Croydon before enrolling at the BRIT School, a prestigious performing arts school in the same borough, at the age of 14. She studied music and dance, but dropped out after two years because she felt "confined", despite learning "an extensive amount".
Raye was brought up in a musical family. Her mother, who is of Ghanaian-Swiss heritage, and her English father met at church, where her father would lead worship and her mother sang in the choir. Her Grandfather was also a songwriter and a musician. Her career in music began as early as the age of ten. She learned to play the guitar at an early age and would sing at church and small charity events.
Initially, Olly Alexander, the lead singer of the band Years and Years, made the record deal with Raye as he was blown with her song 'Hotbox' while attending a "Wild" house party when she was 14. On 11 December 2014, Raye released her debut extended play Welcome to the Winter and On 7 February 2015, she released her debut single "Flowers". She released many other singles, "Alien"(2015), EPS-I, U, Us"(2016), Her major breakthrough was when she featured on Jonas Blue's single "By Your Side" and Jax Jones' "You Don't Know Me" in 2016 that peaked at number fifteen and three on the UK Singles Chart separately.
On 22 February 2018, Raye released a collaborative single titled 'Cigarette' with Mabel and Stefflon Don. This song peaked at Number 41 on the UK Chart and has a Silver certification. In May 2019, Raye collaborated with David Guetta on "Stay (Don't Go Away)" which peaked at Number 41 on the UK Chart. In August 2019, Raye released the single "Love Me Again".The rising star was included in BBC Music Sound of 2017 list. This proves that the young girl has a great future.
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Information regarding her net worth, salary, houses, cars, businesses, and their worths are not still under review.
Raye is quite zipped mouth about her personal life and relationships. It is rumored she has been on a number of dates with Drake, a rapper 'Scorpion'. took her on a "string of dates" during his run-up for a fifth solo album, "Scorpion" Raye incidentally shares the same birthday as the OVO hitmaker.
She has a height of 1.65 m and weighs around 53 kg. She has dark brown hair and brown eyes. Dimensions her body is still not available. She has a straight sexual orientation.
Raye is active on social media. Till now, She has more than 30.8K followers on Twitter with id @raye.In addition, She has over 78.4K followers on Instagram that goes by id raye. She has a facebook profile with id @araye where she has over 40.8k fans.
Raye is a name for girls. The meaning is `peaceful, queen` The name Raye is most commonly given to Scottish girls. (2 times more often than to American girls.) After being introduced by a mutual friend, Blue fell in love with Raye's sound. On the way to their studio session, however, Raye crashed her car into a lamppost after being knocked off the road. She was "shaken up", she recalls but pulled it together to create the upbeat, happy track.