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Rita Ekwere (born 2 August 1994), better known under her stage name of Ray BLK (pronounced "Ray Black"), is a British singer and songwriter who was born in Nigeria, and grew up in Catford in London. She won the BBC's Sound of 2017, and was the first unsigned artist to do so.
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Nov 22, 2021 · Ray BLK. 79.7K subscribers. Subscribed. 25K. 1M views 2 years ago. Pre-order ‘Access Denied’ now: https://rayblk.lnk.to/accessdeniedID Register for Ray BLK updates: https://rayblk.lnk.to ...
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Jul 6, 2021 · The 26-year-old, from south-east London, is finally ready to release her first feature length album, Access Denied - and explains why it's taken so long. Although she'd been nominated for a MOBO ...
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Who is Ray BLK?
On 28 October 2016, she released her debut mini-album, Durt, and in January 2018 signed to the UK branch of Island Records. Her debut full-length studio album, Access Denied, was released to critical acclaim in October 2021. Ray BLK, whose real name is Rita Ekwere, was born in Nigeria and moved to London when she was about four.

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Is Ray BLK a different person now?
"I am the same artist, but I'm a different person now." It's been four-and-a-half years since Ray BLK beat the likes of Rag'n'Bone Man, Tom Grennan, Dave and Jorja Smith to become the first ever unsigned winner of the BBC's annual Sound Of poll.

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Who influenced Ray & BLK?
(Ray is an adaptation of her first name, while BLK, pronounced “black”, stands for “Building Living Knowing”.) The other influence was her mother, Bernadine, a hospital cardiac nurse. “My mum is probably the most extravagant, expressive person I know,” she says.

Ray BLK: ‘Singing distracted me from what was going on’

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Why did Ray BLK write Run Run?
The song grew out of her frustration with the rhetoric around knife crime and drill music. Watch the video for Ray BLK’s Run Run. “What breaks my heart is seeing people who are lucky enough to live in a middle-class bubble, target, penalise and critique people who are actually victims of their environment,” she says.

Ray BLK: ‘A song is like writing in my diary. It’s cathartic’

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Is BLK a good singer?
Without the help of the now defunct TV show, BLK has managed to rise to the top of her game. She is one of few black UK R&B singers with support from a label, and her position is all thanks to her integrity and transparency. She’s already started working on a second album which bares her soul and talks about her mental health struggles.

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How did BLK grow up?
BLK grew up listening to Mary J Blige, Whitney Houston and gospel music and watching music channels such as Channel U and MTV Base. “A lot of the R&B that we consume is from America. I didn’t want to shy away from the fact that I’m influenced by those sounds and those people.”

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Aug 22, 2021 · Ray BLK: ‘A song is like writing in my diary. It’s cathartic’. Kadish Morris. Ahead of her hotly anticipated first album, Access Denied, the singer and songwriter talks of growing up in south...
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Sep 22, 2021 · The singer was raised amid poverty and domestic violence but found solace in books, music and the strength of her mother. Ray BLK, real name Rita Ekwere, photographed for the FT by Harry Mitchell.