RAYE confirmed to carry out on ‘SNL’ with Kristen Wiig
RAYE is ready to make an look on Saturday Evening Reside as a music visitor, it’s been confirmed this week (March 13).
She’s going to carry out on the US present on April 6, which will likely be hosted by actor and comic Kristen Wiig. It should additionally make her the most recent artist to carry out dwell on the present, following on Ariana Grande, Justin Timberlake, Megan Thee Stallion, Reneé Rap and 21 Savage, who’ve all taken to the SNL stage in 2024.
The London-born singer shared the information final night time (March 13), taking to X/Twitter to share the photograph template of three post-it notes, which the present ceaselessly makes use of to disclose the host, musical visitor and date that will probably be aired dwell.
“Saturday Evening Reside, sixth April 2024,” she wrote within the caption.
Saturday Evening Reside, sixth April 2024 @nbcsnl 😭 pic.twitter.com/YHSmYLKzUj
— RAYE (@raye) March 13, 2024
For RAYE, the slot on SNL marks her first time on the dwell sketch present, and provides to a rising variety of accolades that the singer-songwriter has racked up over the previous 12 months, following the success of her debut album, ‘My twenty first Century Blues’.
Not solely did the breakthrough album comprise the chart-topping track ‘Escapism’, it additionally noticed the singer shortlisted for the 2023 Mercury Prize Award and obtain a record-breaking seven nominations at this 12 months’s BRITs.
Happening earlier this month, RAYE was the undisputed winner throughout the ceremony – changing into the primary act to ever take residence six awards in a single night time, together with Track Of The Yr, Finest R&B Act, Finest New Artist and Songwriter Of The Yr.
For the latter, the singer made headlines when she used her acceptance speech to name on music executives to permit songwriters to obtain royalty funds; an announcement she honed in on earlier this week when she hit out at trade executives for underpaying songwriters whereas taking big earnings for themselves.
Following her file variety of wins on the awards ceremony, RAYE spoke to NME concerning the milestone and recalled what it’s wish to obtain reward from artists together with Kylie Minogue.
“That was insane, she’s simply… This complete night time is only a lot. In the easiest way,” she defined. “It’s a very stunning factor while you realise different artists — artists you’ve appeared as much as and listened to because you had been a child — are discovering some type of solace in your artwork. That’s a full-circle second of desires, actually.”