Gen Z artist ready to Ryane

DREAMS: MUSIC IS THE BEAT, OXYGEN FOR THE PERFORMER, WRITER AND FIGURE SKATER

- Hein Kaiser

There's vacuous bubble gum pop, empty vessel dance music and then, well, there’s art. Gen Z performer, figure skater, writer and artist Rayne, his stage name, makes the latter. It’s the cloak he dons, he said, that shape shifts every day into pop star.

Art happens when you listen to the music, but you can feel it, too. When you can visualise the lyrics and take something home beyond a sweaty afterburn of the wiggles.

And, he said, performing before an audience, creating and sharing, is his absolute passion.

Self-taught on piano, a figure skater with provincial colours and a love for mentoring special needs children on the rink, he’s an artist whose will has determined the realisation of his dreams.

Savage Love, Rayne's latest, is a single that dismantles stereotypes, builds a solid narrative throughout and is lyrically as relevant to Gen Z dreams as it is to the desires across any generational divide.

Savage Love dips into '90s house nostalgia but it’s got Gen Z innards.

For me, it’s escapism.