“I’m completely in control. It’s beautiful,” writes Raye, who recounts her painful battle for creative freedom in her own words for Vogue.
There’s an awful pressure on signed artists to make a hit song. But I never wanted to be an artist who created music to sell – I wanted to create music that felt like art to me. I understand that a corporation needs to make money, but this was never business to me. My music was always so heartfelt and deeply personal. Whenever I was presented with hardships – trauma, pain, heartbreak, confusion – I, like so many creatives, turned to my art as medicine.
I was losing my identity. As a Ghanaian-Swiss Brit, I grew up with so many different cultures. Gospel, soul, jazz, and R&B were what I felt connected to as an artist, and what that first album I’d always planned on sounded like. At the label, I was being cut off from my roots. But I’d talk to male peers and find out that they had more creative control. Meanwhile everything I wanted needed vetting.
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