Redby Raye Zaragoza

Raye Zaragoza is of Mexican and indigenous heritage, her great-grandmother was adopted out of her tribe as young child, raised by a white woman and forced to assimilate. Zaragoza named her 2020 album, "Woman in Color," because she saw it as "a coloring book, and every song was a like a little bit of me coloring in my story, of my past and my present and my future." "Being a woman of color in America and someone of mixed race, I’ve always felt like identity is something that weighs on me very heavily and something that I really wanted to write about in this record." rayezaragoza.bandcamp.com www.rayezaragoza.com

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Raye Zaragoza is of Mexican and indigenous heritage, her great-grandmother was adopted out of her tribe as young child, raised by a white woman and forced to assimilate. Zaragoza named her 2020 album, "Woman in Color," because she saw it as "a coloring book, and every song was a like a little bit of me coloring in my story, of my past and my present and my future." "Being a woman of color in America and someone of mixed race, I’ve always felt like identity is something that weighs on me very heavily and something that I really wanted to write about in this record." rayezaragoza.bandcamp.com www.rayezaragoza.com

Raye Zaragoza named her 2020 album, "Woman in Color," because she saw it as "a coloring book, and every song was a like a little bit of me coloring in my story, of my past and my present and my future." "Being a woman of color in America and someone of mixed race, I’ve always felt like identity is something that weighs on me very heavily and something that I really wanted to write about in this record," she said.