Raye’s Mercury Prize win validates her artistic reinvention, proving her ambitious genre-blending album successfully revived her career after a public dispute with her label.
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Singer who previously had record-breaking Brit awards success adds to her haul thanks to massively ambitious big-band albumRaye is the winner of the 2026 Mercury prize, for her second studio album, This Music May Contain Hope.Rewarded for a hugely ambitious 73-minute record that spanned big band jazz, power balladry, funk and more, her win caps an ongoing renaissance for a British singer who at one point was in the doldrums, lashing out publicly at her record label for not letting her release a studio album. Continue reading...
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