{"id":5335,"date":"2019-07-26T23:02:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T23:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mogulmagazine.co.uk\/?p=5335"},"modified":"2021-01-02T00:50:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T00:50:26","slug":"raye-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mogulmagazine.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/07\/26\/raye-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Raye Of Light!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By C.Charles\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Since she was 16 singer \/songwriter,\u00a0<\/span>Raye<\/span><\/a>\u00a0had a dream to work with Beyonce.<\/span><\/p>\n

Five years later, the British singer has done it \u2013 having co-written Bigger, the first track on Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s new Lion King album The Gift<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely crazy how things have turned out,\u201d she told Newsbeat<\/a> during an interview.<\/span><\/p>\n

Raye has an impressive catalogue of solo hits under her belt. She has also written hit songs for artists such as Ellie Goulding<\/a>, David Guetta<\/a>, Little Mix<\/a> and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having Beyonce cut a record that Raye co-wrote has to be her most significant songwriting credit yet.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone in my age bracket grew up listening to her religiously.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI studied Beyonc\u00e9 and all of her performances; I used to watch her videos crying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay Z attended the European premiere of The Lion King<\/a> in London in July (insert pic)<\/span><\/p>\n

The song was penned at a writing camp at Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s studio \u2013 which is where songwriters and producers all work together over a short period to come up with songs for a major new project.<\/span><\/p>\n

Raye, along with five other people are credited for writing Bigger \u2013 including Beyonc\u00e9. It\u2019s reported Raye has said the song came to life due to her close friendship with US songwriter Stacy Barthe.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI remember we were both in a really dark, sad place and we wanted to create something to empower ourselves,\u201d says Raye.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe spent maybe two or three hours on it. It was 3 am, and I remember Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s team came in and heard what we\u2019d created so far and just completely freaked out. It was incredible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The excited Brit singer was informed that Beyonc\u00e9 and her team liked Bigger, although she was not told the song had made the album until a few days before the record was released.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere were hundreds of songs, and you never know. So it was a real moment to hear it was going to be track one and that she\u2019s done a video for it.\u201d \u2013 Raye<\/span><\/p>\n

Raye had to keep her cool while working with Queen Bey even though we are sure she must have been buzzing on the inside. The singer admits she was \u201ccompletely losing it\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Raye shot to stardom in the UK with her Jax Jones and Jonas Blue collaborations in 2016. Raye quickly became an in-demand vocalist, writer, and hit-maker in her own right.<\/span><\/p>\n

Raye explained that having a credit on a Beyonc\u00e9 song is validation for several years of hard work in the music industry. \u201cI want to be taken seriously as a writer,\u201d she says in an interview with Newsbeat.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt took a lot of work to find my way into the writing rooms, then the bigger rooms, to eventually get into a room like this. Then to actually have a cut, it\u2019s just crazy, I\u2019m over the moon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Mogul Mag team cannot get enough of Bigger.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZalRwnSRXhE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By C.Charles\u00a0 Since she was 16 singer \/songwriter,\u00a0Raye\u00a0had a dream to work with Beyonce. Five years later, the British singer has done it \u2013 having co-written Bigger, the first track on Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s new Lion King album The Gift. \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely crazy how things have turned out,\u201d she told Newsbeat during an interview. Raye has an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,2007],"tags":[786,675,778,2281,2261],"class_list":["post-5335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-music","tag-afrobeats","tag-beyonce","tag-jorja-smith","tag-raye","tag-the-gift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mogulmagazine.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mogulmagazine.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mogulmagazine.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mogulmagazine.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mogulmagazine.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mogulmagazine.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6397,"href":"https:\/\/mogulmagazine.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions\/6397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mogulmagazine.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mogulmagazine.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mogulmagazine.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mogulmagazine.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}