She’s topped the charts with songs about her search for love – and Raye has now made a promise on the subject.
It’s one that fans hope she won’t need to keep for long: Raye has sworn not to write any more music until she finds a partner.
The singer – whose real name is Rachel Agatha Keen – 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, and its hit single Where Is My Husband!, both topped the UK charts.
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 “silent protest” until she answers the refrain of her hit single and finds her man.
“My third album, I think I’ve named it already. It’s going to be called And Then She Fell in Love,” she told the publication.
“And I’m not writing a single song – be it one year, five years, ten years – until that chapter of my life begins.”
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 “Escapism”.
After near-endless touring and media appearances, she returned to releasing music in 2025 with “Where Is My Husband!”, a dramatic and dynamic meditation on singledom.
In the track, which Raye debuted at Glastonbury Festival last year, the singer shouts out: “Where the hell is my husband?/ What is takin’ him so long to find me?” The bridge sees her sing: “I 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.”
In the wake of the song’s release, Raye, who won a record-breaking six Brit Awards in 2024, revealed that she was taking her quest for a spouse seriously.
“I have a five-year plan,” she told BBC News in 2025. “I’ll put out an album in first half of next year – although I need to finish it first – then I’ll tour with my sisters [Lauren and Abby-Lyn Keen, AKA Amma and Absolutely].
“Ideally, 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’s not gone down the toilet.”
