By Jem Aswad
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Executive Editor, Music
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Getty Images If there were ever truth in advertising, it can be found in the poster for Raye’s sensory-overload “This Tour May Contain New Music”: “This tour may also contain: dramatic endings, a brass section, live & passion, at least on jazz cover, potential waffling (excessive unnecessary chatting), a big belted note, a nightclub segment, live strings and a musical hug should you need one.”
📹 RAYE performing in New York, NY at Radio City Music Hall today! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/nbKBrPsELY
— RAYE LIFE (@RayeChina) April 16, 2026
She brought exactly that Thursday night at the second of two sold-out shows at the art-deco orgasm of New York’s legendarily opulent Radio City Music Hall, which provided a perfect old-school showbiz setting for the concert: She opened with a blazing version of “Where Is My Husband?,” the lead single from her latest album, “This Music May Contain Hope,” and from there it was two and a half hours of full-on Raye, accompanied by a 20-piece mini-orchestra in tuxes, with all of her charisma, humor, sky-splitting belting and kaleidoscopic combination of musical genres, which somehow segued smoothly between big-band, pop, R&B, ballads, a cover of the classic “Fly Me to the Moon,” a giant orchestral moment with the Hans Zimmer arrangement of “Click Clack Symphony,” and, at the end, a full-on electronic dance segment.
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