Gretta Ray, the award-winning indie-pop singer and songwriter, is recovering from a severe well being criticism which required a go to to the ER and a prolonged keep in hospital.
The Australian artist touched down in London earlier in the summertime, a ceremony of passage for therefore a lot of her compatriots and a private mission for Ray to additional her profession.
After going quiet on social media, Ray reached out to alert her followers on current occasions. “Hello darlings,” she writes, “I wished to share with you that shortly after shifting abroad to London final month, I used to be admitted to the ER and have remained in hospital for five weeks now.”
She continues, “it’s been a scary time, however after plenty of uncertainty, I’ve a plan shifting ahead and can quickly be on the opposite facet of all of this.” The submit is accompanied with an image taken from her hospital mattress, an intravenous drip looming above.
The highway forward is an extended one. “I’ve an extended restoration interval forward of me and for now I’m going to maintain the small print of my sickness personal,” Ray provides, “however I felt compelled to make this submit to remind all of you that if you’re ever feeling unsettlingly sick, in sudden sudden ache, otherwise you simply know that one thing is fallacious, ensure you take heed to that intestine feeling and get seen to as quickly as you’ll be able to.”
Ray’s household are actually in London “taking good care of me,” she writes in a followup submit. “I’m in good palms right here in a very good hospital.”
Hailing from Melbourne, Ray’s profession blossomed whereas she was nonetheless at college. In 2016, a teenage Ray received Triple J Unearthed and she or he scooped the 2016 Vanda & Younger World Songwriting Competitors, which got here with a A$50,000 winner’s test.
Her debut album, Start to Look Round, dropped in 2021 and was nominated an ARIA Music Award (breakthrough artist launch) and a J Award, for Australian album of the yr.
In 2023 got here the sophomore album Constructive Spin, which was shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize, the J Award and her single “Heartbreak Child” was nominated for music of the yr on the 2024 APRA Music Awards.
