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RAYE (Rachel Agatha Keen, born 24 October 1997) is a British singer-songwriter and record producer from Tooting who grew up in Croydon, South London. Raised in a musical household by a Ghanaian-Swiss mother and an English father, she learned piano as a child, attended the BRIT School briefly and began uploading music in 2014 with the R\&B-tinged EP Welcome to the Winter. She established a dual profile as a solo artist and a songwriter for other performers, earning credits with artists including Beyoncé, Charli XCX, John Legend and Little Mix. After a protracted dispute with Polydor over the withholding of an album, RAYE left the label and independently released her debut studio album, My 21st Century Blues, on 3 February 2023; the album, which she co-wrote and co-produced, drew on jazz, soul and contemporary pop influences and produced the single “Escapism”, which became her first UK number-one and marked her first entry on the US Billboard Hot 100. Her independent era brought major in