RAYE insists she may “by no means, ever try to exchange or imitate” the late Amy Winehouse after being in comparison with the music legend.
RAYE has addressed comparisons to her and the late Amy Winehouse after working along with her producer Mark Ronson
The Oscar Successful Tears singer has recorded two songs with the Rehab hitmaker’s producer, Mark Ronson, and has admitted she was “fairly nervous” hitting the studio with the studio wizard behind Amy’s largest hits.
She informed Individuals: “Actually, I am not gonna lie, I truly was fairly nervous and scared to work with him.
“I simply do need to say that I do know I can by no means, ever, ever, ever, ever try to exchange or imitate Amy. I’m in awe of her. All of us are, and we miss her.”
The primary monitor from the pair is Suzanne, out on June 13, adopted by Grandma Calls the Boy Dangerous Information from this month’s F1 film.
RAYE, 27, had wished to work with Mark, 49, since she was “somewhat lady”.
She continued: “It is fairly a troublesome factor to even enable myself to create so freely with him.
“However I actually simply wished to be like, ‘Are you aware what? I simply must overlook what anybody else is gonna say about this.’ I completely love this producer. I’ve at all times wished to work with this producer since I used to be somewhat lady.”
And the Escapism hitmaker could not be prouder of the music they’ve created collectively.
She gushed: “We have made music collectively that I am so happy with, and I really like.
“I play it, and it makes me glad 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 12 months 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 bought 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 fireplace album title, and I am unable to hand in an album title that is much less good than that.”