Ravyn Lenae

Born: 22 January 1999

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Years Active: 2014–present

Genre/s: Alternative R&B, R&B, neo soul

Label/s: Atlantic, Three Twenty Three

Member of: Zero Fatigue

Ravyn Lenae Washington (born January 22, 1999) is an American R&B singer and songwriter from Chicago, currently signed to Atlantic Records and the Three Twenty Three Music Group. She is also a member of the musical collective Zero Fatigue. Her debut EP, Moon Shoes, was released independently in 2015 and later reissued by Atlantic Records in 2016. Her follow up EP, Midnight Moonlight, was released in 2017. She has performed at several music festivals and in 2017 toured with SZA on her Ctrl Tour and Noname on her Telefone Tour.

She released her debut album, Hypnos, on May 20, 2022, and her second album, Bird's Eye, on August 9, 2024, to critical acclaim. The latter spawned her breakout hit, "Love Me Not", which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked within the top 50 of the music charts in several countries.

Ravyn Lenae Washington, was born on January 22, 1999, in Chicago. Her mother is from Panama, with her maternal grandfather being part of a doo wop musical group in the country. She was raised as a member of the Pullman Christian Reformed Church on the far South Side of the city. Her maternal grandfather, Richard Williams, served as the pastor of the congregation for 30 years. She credits her participation in worship at the church with helping to develop her interests and abilities in music. In middle school at Roseland Christian School, Lenae began writing her own songs. She would go on to attend the Chicago High School for the Arts, where she studied classical music. She graduated from the school in May 2017 at the age of 18.