But unlike them, she hadn’t even signed a record deal at the time. At the start of 2017 she was chosen as the winner of that year’s BBC Sound poll, a generally reliable list of future pop successes that had previously picked Adele, Ellie Goulding and Sam Smith. Maybe Ray seems older because she’s been waiting in the wings for longer than most. Madonna, who Ray sings that she once dreamed of being on the opening song, BLK Madonna, was about to celebrate her 25th birthday when she released hers. ![]() The R&B singer, born in Lagos and raised in Catford, in fact recently turned 27, but still, it’s hardly an ancient state in which to put out your debut album. It feels surprising to hear Rita Ekwere singing “I’m only 25, 25, 25,” a little way in to her first full length collection as Ray BLK.
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