Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Multi-award-winning British singer, songwriter, and producer RAYE is redefining contemporary music. A south London native, she made history in 2025 as the first artist ever nominated for both Best New Artist and Songwriter of the Year (Non-Classical) in the same year at the GRAMMY Awards, where she earned three nominations. This followed her record-breaking sweep at the 2024 BRIT Awards, where she won six awards—more than any artist in a single year—surpassing Adele and Harry Styles, and becoming the first woman ever named Songwriter of the Year.

Since her 2014 debut, RAYE has charted eight UK Top 20 singles and amassed over six billion Spotify streams. Her genre-blending catalog—spanning pop, R&B, hip-hop, gospel, jazz, big band, and dance—includes collaborations with Stormzy, Central Cee, Lucky Daye, David Guetta, Jax Jones, and Disclosure. Recognized as “the voice of a generation” and “the UK’s finest songwriter” by the Ivors Academy, she has also written hits for Beyoncé, Charli XCX, Jennifer Lopez, and rising stars like JADE and Halle Bailey.

Her 2023 debut album, My 21st Century Blues (Human Re Sources/The Orchard), was a critical and commercial triumph, powered by her first UK No. 1 single “Escapism.” The global hit reached the Top 10 in over 20 countries and is RIAA Double Platinum in the U.S. The success launched a 150+ show global tour across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the UK, including festival stages like Coachella, Glastonbury, Lollapalooza, Fuji Rock, and Montreux Jazz Festival.

2024 marked another landmark year: a BRIT Awards sweep, an acclaimed opening set for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour at Wembley Stadium, and major TV appearances on Saturday Night Live, The Kelly Clarkson Show, American Music Awards, MTV EMAs, and the Kennedy Center Honors. In 2025, following standout performances at both the GRAMMYs and Academy Awards, RAYE joined LISA and Doja Cat on the global anthem “Born Again,” which she co-wrote and co-produced. The track debuted on multiple Billboard charts, including No. 68 on the Hot 100 and No. 2 on Dance Streaming Songs. She also teamed up with Oscar, Golden Globe, and 9-time GRAMMY winner Mark Ronson on two summer singles, “Suzanne” and “Grandma Calls The Boy Bad News.”

Fresh off a commanding set for 60,000 fans at Glastonbury’s iconic Pyramid Stage, she continued her 2025 festival run at Governor’s Ball, Montreux Jazz Festival, and Newport Jazz Festival, before headlining London’s sold-out All Points East alongside her sisters Absolutely and Amma.

A tireless advocate for songwriter rights, RAYE has consistently used her platform to call out industry imbalances—from power dynamics between artists and labels to the financial challenges creatives face in the streaming era. In recognition of her impact, the Ivors Academy named her the recipient of an Ivors Academy Honour earlier this year.

Absolutely doesn’t just create music; she conjures a living and breathing universe where emotion and sound become one. Like a movie projected across the sky, her vision vividly unspools as an otherworldly fantasy soundtracked by an unpredictable hybrid of pop, R&B, electronic, jazz, and rock. You’ll not only hear the story, but you’ll also immediately see it and feel it. You can trace her origins back to South London where she grew up raised by a Ghanaian-Swiss mother and British father. During 2019, the lifelong creative developed her signature style by dropping a string of self-produced EPs. Simultaneously, she established herself behind-the-scenes as an in-demand songwriter whose catalog now spans cuts for David Guetta, Tinashe, Teddy Swims, Saweetie, GIVEON, Normani, and Anitta, to name a few. She also notably worked with LISA of BLACKPINK on her debut album, Alter Ego. Signing to Epic Records, she made waves with 2023’s Cerebrum, spawning “Fever Dream,” “Patterns,” and more. Right out of the gate, NOTION applauded how the album “pushes back against conventional music, elevating her creativity to new heights,” and EUPHORIA. raved, “the 13-track body of work refreshingly sounds like an original piece of work that cannot be compared.” FIZZY MAG christened her “a vital new star in the making.” Between supporting Raye on a sold-out tour, she magnified her impact with one scorching collaboration after another. Beyond “Stay With Me” [with Louis The Child] and “Shades” [with Snakehips], she joined forces with Tiësto and Rudimental for the 2024 banger “Waterslides,” which eclipsed 16 million Spotify streams and counting. Absolutely invites everyone to escape into her embrace with a series of 2025 singles for Epic Records, beginning with “I Just Don’t Know You Yet” and “Goodbye Glitter.”

For amma, becoming an artist was never the plan, at least, not at first. Growing up in a family where music was ever-present, it felt like the last thing she wanted to pursue. But sometimes, the thing we resist the most is the thing that calls us home. It wasn’t until a quiet moment alone, writing a song just for herself, that something shifted. That song ended up being played far and wide in the industry and before she knew it, she was sitting in label meetings, offered a chance to share her pen with the world.

As a singer and songwriter, she’s less inspired by particular names in the industry and more by the rawness of artists who feel. Emotion is at the heart of everything she creates. “No matter what I’ve felt, another human has felt it too,” she says. “Although our stories differ from one another, the emotions we experience are something we all share universally.”

Her songwriting is still evolving—shaped by sessions with others, quiet late nights in her bedroom, and harmonizing with her sisters, also artists known as RAYE and Absolutely, since she was little. Singing has always been second nature, but finding her voice as an artist has taken time, courage, and a few leaps of faith.

Debuting now, she’s candid about the fear and uncertainty that come with stepping into the spotlight. “Majority of the time I don’t know what I’m doing here,” she admits. “But when I feel scared, I listen to the song ‘What Am I Doing It For’ and it reminds me that there’s a purpose for what I’m doing and that everything will be ok.”

Each track she releases tells a story from her life, not to center herself, but to connect. Whether it’s love, confusion, pride, fear, or hope, her goal is to create space for others to feel seen. “There’s 27 examples of emotions and 8 billion people in the world. That means we’re never really alone in how we feel.”