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She\u2019s topped the charts with songs about her search for love \u2013 and Raye<\/a> has now made a promise on the subject.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one that fans hope she won\u2019t need to keep for long: Raye has sworn not to write any more music until she finds a partner.<\/p>\n

The singer \u2013 whose real name is Rachel Agatha Keen \u2013 has dominated the British music scene in recent years, and further solidified her position last month when her second album This Music May Contain Hope<\/a>, and its hit single Where Is My Husband!, both topped the UK charts.<\/p>\n

In a new interview accompanying her place on The Sunday Times Young Power List, the 28-year-old shared that she is putting songwriting on pause in \u201csilent protest\u201d until she answers the refrain of her hit single and finds her man.<\/p>\n

\"SingerSinger has publicly declared her desire for a husband (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cMy third album, I think I\u2019ve named it already. It\u2019s going to be called And Then She Fell in Love,\u201d she told the publication<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019m not writing a single song \u2013 be it one year, five years, ten years \u2013 until that chapter of my life begins.\u201d<\/p>\n

The London-born singer spent years signed to a record label before she broke into the mainstream with her critically acclaimed debut album My 21st Century Blues in 2023 and the viral track \u201cEscapism\u201d.<\/p>\n

After near-endless touring and media appearances, she returned to releasing music in 2025 with \u201cWhere Is My Husband!\u201d, a dramatic and dynamic meditation on singledom. <\/p>\n

In the track, which Raye debuted at Glastonbury Festival last year<\/a>, the singer shouts out: \u201cWhere the hell is my husband?\/ What is takin\u2019 him so long to find me?\u201d The bridge sees her sing: \u201cI would like a ring, I would like a ring\/ I would like a diamond ring on my wedding finger\/ I would like a big and shiny diamond that I can wave around.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"OnOn stage in February (Gareth Cattermole\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

In the wake of the song\u2019s release, Raye, who won a record-breaking six Brit Awards in 2024, revealed that she was taking her quest for a spouse seriously.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a five-year plan,\u201d she told BBC News<\/a> in 2025. \u201cI\u2019ll put out an album in first half of next year \u2013 although I need to finish it first \u2013 then I\u2019ll tour with my sisters<\/a> [Lauren and Abby-Lyn Keen, AKA Amma and Absolutely].<\/p>\n

\u201cIdeally, around that time, it would be nice to meet my husband. So like, maybe 2027? Then we get married and have a baby. And I want to do enough groundwork in the next two years that I can take a year off and my career\u2019s not gone down the toilet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-537177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537177","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=537177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}