We knew the dates for the 2025 edition of the Nice Jazz Fest (new name of the Nice Jazz Festival since last year): from Thursday July 24 to Sunday July 27. We now know one of the first headliners, announced this Thursday evening by the City of Nice: Raye, who will perform on the first evening.
And if this name doesn’t yet speak to you, the spectacular credentials of this 27-year-old London gem are enough to seduce lovers of jazz, soul, pop, blues, r’n’b… In short, put everything the world agrees.
Rachel Keen, her real name, is the artist who exploded the counters at the Brit Awards last March. Winning six awards at these Victoires de la Musique across the Channel, which no one had done before her in a single evening.
Nominated twice for the Grammy Awards
First appearing alongside other artists, notably electro (David Guetta or Martin Solveig…) from whom she wanted to break away, or on the credits of others’ albums as a composer (from John Legend to Beyoncé), Raye left his label, Polydor, in 2021, to stand on his own two feet and assert his artistic identity. Result: her first album, “My 21st Century Blues”, released in 2023, propelled her to stardom in less time than it takes to say it.
On this opus, titles like “Escapism” are a hit: a number 1 place in the United Kingdom and a counter that is close to one billion plays on the Spotify platform. Where the singer, author and composer has more than 27 million monthly listeners around the world…
Solid on his new support, the British artist also won two nominations for the Grammy Awards, this time the Music Oscars, next February in Los Angeles. She will meet Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and the Rolling Stones…
On the stage side, Raye, who shone last year on the stage of the Montreux Jazz Festival (a passage that she immortalized in a live album), will be at the Lollapalooza festival in Paris this summer, before the Nice Jazz Fest, therefore. In the middle of a European tour.
Open ticket office: festival pass 120 euros. Rens. nicejazzfest.fr
