How Raye Zaragoza Makes a Living as a DIY Artist (Hint: Not Streaming)

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LA-based singer-songwriter Raye Zaragoza is called one of the most fresh and compelling voices in folk music today by NPR Music. She writes music for Netflix’s ‘Spirit Rangers’ and just released a new album Hold That Spirit on August 11, and has just announced that she has been cast as Tiger Lily in the Peter Pan National Tour. 

0:00 - Welcome 07:20 - Raye casted a Tiger Lily in the Broadway tour of Peter Pan 17:01 - Raye’s new album and collaborating 26:23 - Deeply personal songwriting and songwriting as therapy 36:37 - Writing for sync licensing 41:16 - The business side of writing for a Netflix show 51:25 - self releasing as an artist and running her own indie record label 56:33 - How Raye uses Patreon like a record label

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