Raye Zaragoza called off her wedding and put the money towards her new LP, "Hold That Spirit." “My engagement post on IG was the most-liked thing I’ve ever posted in my life — more than my music. Women can live so many different kinds of lives and still deserve to be celebrated.”

Raye's interest in Americana began with Mexican music. “My dad played the trumpet. He’d bring me and my siblings to Olvera Street to watch the mariachis. What got me interested in making acoustic music was mariachi because it doesn’t need to be amplified."

Diaspora Baby: L.A. folk singer Raye Zaragoza says, 'We were cowboys too'

‘When I first started playing folk music, people would look at my cowboy boots and be like, “Wow… so how did that happen?” ’