Ray also a nomination for a J Award for Unearthed Artist of the Year at the 2016 J Awards. Unearthed music director, Dave Ruby Howe called her a '.bold and exciting new talent who seems to win over everyone that comes into orbit of her music'. The announcement was made by Triple J presenters Matt Okine and Alex Dyson, who snuck into a school concert while she was performing to surprise her. The song received high-rotation airplay on Triple J. In August 2016, she won the national competition for emerging new artists called Triple J Unearthed High, for her song ' Drive', which was produced by Nashville-based Australian music producer Josh Barber with Jonathan Dreyfus, recorded by Nick Edin and Fraser Montgomerey and mixed by US producer Ryan Hewit. In February 2016, Ray released her debut EP, Elsewhere. Career 2016-2020: Career beginnings, Elsewhere and Here and Now She sang in choirs from the age of five, latterly singing and touring with Young Voices of Melbourne, and as the youngest member of If You See Her, Say Hello, a group of 21 Melbourne-based singer-songwriters.

Gretta Ray grew up in Melbourne, Australia, attending Princes Hill Secondary College. Her songwriting has been described by the Sydney Morning Herald as 'conversational, unambiguous lyrics' that ' across simply and powerfully', and by Australian music critic Bernard Zuel as 'quietly grand pop'. Originally making music reflective of indie folk influences, Ray came to embrace pop music as her primary genre with Begin to Look Around. To date, Ray has released two studio albums – Begin to Look Around (2021) and Positive Spin (2023) – as well as the EPs Elsewhere (2016) and Here and Now (2018). In 2016, she was the winner of the national Triple J Unearthed radio competition for bands and songwriters, and the 2016 Vanda & Young Global Songwriting Competition, with her song ' Drive'. Gretta Louise Ray (born ) is an Australian singer-songwriter from Melbourne, Victoria.

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