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Tom Coleman

Who is RAYE, the artist singing the Women's FA Cup final national anthem before Chelsea v Man City?

Chelsea and Man City will go at it at Wembley this afternoon in the Women's FA Cup Final.

But before the action gets under way, there will be plenty of pre-match festivities for fans to enjoy.

UK recording artist RAYE will perform a nine-minute melody of her own tracks: Bed; Secrets; and Waterfall in the build-up to the final before singing the national anthem.

She also sang in the build-up to yesterday's clash between Chelsea and Liverpool, which the Reds won on penalties.

RAYE, whose real name is Rachel Agatha Keen, is a singer and songwriter from Croydon in south London and is apparently a Man Utd fan. The 24-year-old has previously been romantically linked with artist Drake.

In 2016, she had her breakthrough by featuring on the singles; "By Your Side" by Jonas Blue and "You Don't Know Me" by Jax Jones

Her debut mini-album, Euphoric Sad Songs was released in November 2020 and spawned in the UK top-10 single "Secrets" with Regard. In 2021, she was co-lead artist on the single "Bed" with musicians Joel Corry and David Guetta.

Raye was brought up in a musical family. Her mother, who is of Ghanaian-Swiss heritage, and her English father met at church, where her father would lead worship and her mother sang in the choir. Her Grandfather was also a songwriter and a musician.

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