Mark Ronson and RAYE have shared the monitor Suzanne after desirous to work collectively “for years”.
RAYE and Mark Ronson have shared their first collaboration, Suzanne
The Uptown Funk hitmaker and the Value It singer got here to hit the studio after each working as model ambassadors for watchmaker Audemars Piguet, with the collaboration being a part of its APxMusic collection.
Celebrity DJ and producer Ronson mentioned: “I’ve admired RAYE’s artistry for years now, watching her evolution from songwriter to the powerhouse artist she’s develop into. When Audemars Piguet introduced us collectively by means of their APxMusic programme, it felt like the celebrities aligning at precisely the correct second.
“This collaboration isn’t simply one other venture – it’s one thing we’ve poured ourselves into utterly…all evening monitoring classes in London, New York and Los Angeles. The music we’ve created collectively carries each our musical DNA however takes us someplace neither of us would have reached alone.”
The track is known as after the Swiss luxurious watch model’s founder, Suzanne Audemars.
RAYE added: “All the things about how this track got here to exist, and this second with Mark and AP, feels meant to be.
“I used to work in Mark Ronson’s London studio once I was a child artist specializing in my songwriting craft, and all the time dreamed of the day I may sooner or later work with the musical genius that’s Ronson.
“From the sensation in my coronary heart that the track must be referred to as Suzanne inside minutes of listening to the music Mark created, to studying of Suzanne Audemars and the enjoyment I really feel in my bones at any time when I play this track in my headphones, the overwhelming consensus of feelings is gratitude and delight.”
The Oscar Profitable Tears singer has recorded one other track Ronson, Grandma Calls the Boy Unhealthy Information, from this month’s F1 film soundtrack album.
The Escapism hitmaker could not be prouder of the music they’ve created collectively.
She gushed to PEOPLE: “We have made music collectively that I am so happy with, and I really like.
“I play it, and it makes me blissful and joyful, so I am proud.”
RAYE additionally offered an replace on her follow-up to 2023’s My twenty first Century Blues LP – which received British Album of the Yr on the 2024 BRIT Awards – after she suffered a setback when her automobile was stolen with each the unique songbooks from her debut document and her solely copy of notes and concepts for the brand new document inside.
She mentioned: “I don’t have an album title.
“I’m like, ‘What’s it gonna be referred to as?’ It’s stressing me out proper now, I can’t lie, as a result of I’ve received the music beginning to actually come there.
“I simply do not know what this album’s gonna be referred to as.
“In my humble opinion, My twenty first Century Blues is such a hearth album title, and I am unable to hand in an album title that is much less good than that.”
