See her perform the new single as commuters speed by To celebrate the release of her new single ‘Genesis’, Raye performed the track on an active train station platform in London – check out the footage below. The singer posted a video on Thursday (June 6) shortly before the single dropped, which showed her singing just a couple of feet away from the train tracks. A jazz band play alongside her, not missing a beat even when a train speeds past behind them.
She wrote alongside the clip, “‘Genesis’ will be yours at midnight.” Raye performed at Selhurst station, located just a few minutes away from the BRIT School – which she attended for two years from the age of 14 – and not far from Croydon, where she grew up. A post shared by RAYE 🇬🇧🇨🇭🇬🇭 (@raye) Raye first showcased ‘Genesis’ at a pop-up exhibition in New York City earlier this month.
She said she was “so proud” of the seven-minute track, her first new material since her critically acclaimed and BRIT Award-winning debut album ‘ My 21st Century Blues ’, released last February. “There is a Nina Simone quote, ‘It is an artist’s duty to reflect the times’,” she said. “This quote is everything to me and I believe the best way I can try to do this is through my art and my music.
“There is so much darkness and pain in this world we live in, and I wanted to create something both as deeply personal and as raw as I could find myself to be about my own mind and the world I se.
