‘It’s Been a Scary Time’
Gretta Ray, the award-winning indie-pop singer and songwriter, is recovering from a critical well being criticism which required a go to to the ER and a prolonged keep in hospital.
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The Australian artist touched down in London earlier in the summertime, a ceremony of passage for therefore lots 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. “Hi darlings,” she writes, “I wanted to share with you that shortly after moving overseas to London last month, I was admitted to the ER and have remained in hospital for 5 weeks now.”
She continues, “it’s been a scary time, but after a lot of uncertainty, I have a plan moving forward and will soon be on the other side of all of this.” The publish is accompanied with a image taken from her hospital mattress, an intravenous drip looming above.
The street forward is a lengthy one. “I have a long recovery period ahead of me and for now I’m going to keep the details of my illness private,” Ray provides, “but I felt compelled to make this post to remind all of you that if you are ever feeling unsettlingly sick, in unexpected sudden pain, or you just know that something is wrong, make sure you listen to that gut feeling and get seen to as soon as you can.”
Ray’s household are actually in London “taking care of me,” she writes in a followup publish. “I am in good hands here in a really good hospital.”
Hailing from Melbourne, Ray’s profession blossomed whereas she was nonetheless in school. In 2016, a teenage Ray gained Triple J Unearthed and he or she scooped the 2016 Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition, which got here with a A$50,000 winner’s examine.
Her debut album, Begin to Look Around, 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 Positive Spin, which was shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize, the J Award and her single “Heartbreak Baby” was nominated for tune of the yr on the 2024 APRA Music Awards.
