{"id":230067,"date":"2025-10-28T12:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230067\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:28:08","slug":"singer-raye-says-lost-songbooks-found-ahead-of-album-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/230067\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Raye says lost songbooks found ahead of album two"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raye is perhaps best known for her single Escapism, the break-out hit from her debut album.<\/p>\n

She has also appeared on a string of other top 10 hits, such as Bed (a collaboration with Joel Corry and David Guetta), Prada (with Cass\u00f6 and D-Block Europe) and Secrets (with Regard).<\/p>\n

Her music contains a mix of pop, R&B, soul, jazz, dance, and hip-hop, as anyone watching her dazzling Glastonbury performance in the summer will have seen.<\/p>\n

She made history at the Brit Awards last year<\/a> when she won six of the seven prizes she was nominated for.<\/p>\n

But it took a long time to get there. In 2021, five years after she was signed, her label was still refusing to release her debut<\/a>, prompting the singer to ask to be freed from her contract.<\/p>\n

The south Londoner was allowed to keep the songs she had written, and ultimately found huge success as a solo artist after Escapism became a viral hit.<\/p>\n

In the years leading up to her debut album’s eventual release, Raye also collaborated with Mabel, Jax Jones, Rudimental and Disclosure.<\/p>\n

She will embark on a continental tour – titled This Tour May Contain New Music – from January 2026, arriving in the UK in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raye is perhaps best known for her single Escapism, the break-out hit from her debut album. She has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-230067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}