RAYE vows to not write more songs until she’s found love: ‘That’s my silent protest’

Raye topped the charts with single ‘Where Is My Husband!’ last year
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.

“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.”
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