# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-blk
# Generated: 2026-09-02T22:13:19.123Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-blk"
name: "Ray BLK"
slug: "ray-blk"
description: "Rita Ekwere, better known under her stage name of Ray BLK, is a British singer and songwriter who was born in Nigeria, and grew up in Catford in London. She won the BBC's Sound of 2017, and was the first unsigned artist to do so. On 28 October 2016, she released her debut mini-album, Durt, and in January 2018 signed to the UK branch of Island Records. Her debut full-length studio album, Access Denied, was released to critical acclaim in October 2021."
tagline: "British singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ray_BLK_2_%E2%80%93_splash!_Festival_20_(2017).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1993-08-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           68.59
  momentum:             18.95522388059701
  historical:           8.171282666666666
  currentAttention:     40.70556309362279
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  27
  category: null
totalFollowers: 81600
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/rayblk_"
    handle:    "rayblk_"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/rayblk/"
    handle:    "rayblk"
  - platform:  "TIKTOK"
    url:       "https://www.tiktok.com/@rayblizzy"
    handle:    "rayblizzy"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/RayBlkMusic"
    handle:    "RayBlkMusic"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0CkbPVBpOwwz9NPPglFKyq"
    handle:    "0CkbPVBpOwwz9NPPglFKyq"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.rayblk.co.uk"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-gtSBvnDPCZ7PuTJ6T-68Q"
    handle:    "@rayblk8891"
    followers: 81600
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/5550733"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_BLK"
    title: "Ray BLK"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_BLK"
    title: "Ray BLK"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_BLK"
    title: "Ray BLK"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_BLK"
    title: "Ray BLK"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4_BLK"
    title: "레이 BLK"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_BLK"
    title: "Ray BLK"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_BLK"
    title: "Ray BLK"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/43696104-c1ee-4508-b49c-3338eb9c11a2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28146094"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump