“I could tell I was living in a world / that wasn’t made for brown-skinned girls,” sings Raye Zaragoza at the start of “The It Girl,” the new song from the award-winning singer-songwriter. Against a ...

One of the first images in Raye Zaragoza’s new video for her feminist folk anthem “Fight Like A Girl”—premiering below—shows Lisa Simpson delivering a timely political message: “The whole damn system ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Indigenous singer-songwriter Raye Zaragoza, who is of Akimel O’otham descent, standing up for women has become an anthem in ...

The Akimel Oʼotham folk singer performs four songs for her Tiny Desk (home) concert. The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, ...

“They say that folk music’s for the elite, the wise and the old with the college degree, a $40 ticket and a $15 drink,” sings Raye Zaragoza in the opening bars to her Harvest-channeling new single ...

A conversation with singer-songwriter Raye Zaragoza on the role activism can play in music Oxfam: Your songs address issues like domestic violence, Indigenous rights, reproductive rights, all of which ...

It’s been 20 years since she picked up her first acoustic guitar, but folk singer Raye Zaragoza says she still fields the occasional quizzical look from strangers. “When I first started playing folk ...

Multicultural activist Raye Zaragoza’s single “The It Girl” reveals her struggles with love and acceptance as a multicultural brown woman. Produced by Tucker Martine (who has worked with First Aid Kit ...

Raye Zaragoza (pronounced ray zay-rah-GO-zah) is an award-winning singer-songwriter who carries an acoustic guitar and a message. Her quiet yet powerful song "In the River," written in response to the ...

Raye Zaragoza is an award-winning singer/songwriter and performer whose multinational heritage (Native American (O'odham), Mexican, Taiwanese and Japanese) deeply informs her music. This perspective ...

While the last six years have provided much fuel for protest music, few have done it with as much clarity and musicality as Raye Zaragoza. Zaragoza, who is of Japanese, Mexican, and indigenous descent ...