LYNKAGE: How are you doing?
RAINE: I’m great, just working hard as usual.

LYNKAGE: I see that 2008 was the year you had your break through, tell us a little about that.

RAINE: Well I met Daseca in 2007 after graduating from U-Tech, and it took me an entire year before actually recording my first song for Daseca called “Drive me crazy” which got very good rotation, and then I had other songs coming out after that such as "Oh yeah, and Bossy Lady”, which all have been getting good reception so everything as been good so far.

LYNKAGE: Where are some of the places that your music as taken you so far?

RAINE: Well I haven’t been traveling as yet, I just got started last October and it was actually this year that I started performing, so people were just hearing the voice but they weren’t seeing the face.  I haven’t been overseas as yet but I’m sure that is in the making.

LYNKAGE: Can you name some of the shows that you have performed in Jamaica?

 RAINE: I performed at the Reggae month concert in Noxford boulevard three weeks ago along with Etana, Bugle, Serani, and Assassin it was a very good concert. I performed at the youth view awards, which was actually my first performance, I’ve performed on Hype TV, RE TV and a lot of other Television stations.

LYNKAGE: So how did you get discovered?

RAINE: Well I was by consumer plaza, in my van minding my own business and listening to the radio and just singing, and Serani was right there and I actually didn’t see him and apparently he was listening to me and he came over and said “you can sing” and I said yes, then he saw me two days after that and he requested a demo, so excited I went home and got my demo together same time and link him up the next day, and he is like “yow I love you I want to work with you.”

LYNKAGE: What are some of the challenges you have faced as an upcoming artiste?

RAINE: Well the industry is a beautiful but devious, you’ll find people don’t like you for no reason at all and they discriminate you and judge you for no reason at all, you hear stuff like: oh you can’t sing or she’s not all that so there is a lot of negativity.

LYNKAGE: So what is your motivation?

RAINE: My parents first of all because they didn’t give up on me and they have instored values in me so they are my main inspiration and also Daseca, you know there are many people who would want to work with daseka, I’m a very blessed female because I really didn’t have to go out there and struggle and be all over the place to find the right people too work with, Daseca just came into my hands so they are all my inspirations.
Whitney Houston, Tanya Stephens also inspire me

LYNKAGE: You went to U-tech, what were you studying while you were there?

RAINE: Marketing and international business.

LYNKAGE: What would you say makes you different from all the other female artistes?

RAINE: Well my aim really is to be diverse. You can expect to hear Raine singing about any topic without having to get out of my comfort zone and still wanting people to know that music is my passion and not my life so not necessary everything I sing about is what I really live. You don’t really see many females being that diverse.

LYNKAGE: Who are some of the other entertainers that you’d like to collaborate with?

RAINE: Definitely Tanya Stephens, she is my main inspiration locally, and internationally there are many like Lauren Hill, Whitney Houston, Pharell, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, back on the local scene there is Mavado who is also apart of the Daseca camp, Bounty Killer, and Tifa

LYNKAGE: So far what do you like most about being an entertainer?

RAINE: Influencing people positively through my voice because that’s my aim and it’s a beautiful thing to have many people come up to me and tell me they love my music and that I inspire them and they love my attitude and stuff like that has been good so far.

LYNKAGE: If you could go back a year is there anything that you would change?

RAINE: No, Because I think that every experience was put in place to give you knowledge and wisdom so I wouldn’t change anything.

LYNKAGE: Do you plan to venture into any other area in the music industry?

RAINE: No just the music.

LYNKAGE: Well I see you have done some great music videos, who is responsible for that?

RAINE: Well the first video “Drive me crazy” was directed by Julia Braham and she did a great job on that video, the second one was actually
Serani featuring myself called “Naked” which was also directed by Julia Braham, and the latest Video which I’m extremely happy about it has been getting crazy raving reviews “Belly Wine” which was directed by Scorpio 21 they are amazing.

LYNKAGE: What are three things that you cannot live without?

RAINE: Food, Beverages and my family.

LYNKAGE: Speaking of family how are they taking it?

RAINE: “FOUR YEARS OF UNIVERSITY AND YUH GONE DUH MUSIC” My mother was like; “why music Raine why music?” I’m like; this is what I love and stuff like that. My father died when I was seven, I got the talent from his side of the family but they are extremely happy about it now, still a bit protective like, be careful in the streets Raine and blah blah but they are very happy.

LYNKAGE: What would Raine blow a million dollars on right now?

RAINE: “Wow” well I know shoes would have to be in that, I have a major fetish for shoes, and I love the whole charity thing it’s a major part of me and there is a lot of homeless kids on the street and you can make one of them night by giving them a little thing.

LYNKAGE: Speaking of charity, are you involved with any?

RAINE: Currently no, but while I was attending U-Tech and Wolmer’s I was highly involved in Key clubs and Octagon Clubs and you had to be highly involved in community service, but I’m definitely intending on being involved in charity.

LYNKAGE: So what's the one thing that just gets under your skin?

RAINE: People that are capable of making less of themselves and have no high esteem because I think that is why we have no improvement in society, everyone is capable but there are many out there that are lazy and are limited in the mind and they tend to bad mind people who are going out there and tryingfor themdelves,  that really hurts me.

LYNKAGE: If you were the last woman on earth what would be qualities of the last man?

RAINE: Someone with a good sense of humor, intelligent, I like someone you can reason with cause I love to reason, someone understanding, and just have a diverse personality

LYNKAGE: What’s the one thing that makes your day?

RAINE: To see people happy that makes me extremely happy.

LYNKAGE: Tell us about that tattoo on your arm?

RAINE: Well it’s a microphone with the letter “S” behind it, S for Seville which is my surname my father is really the inspiration behind the tattoo.

LYNKAGE: If you could be one object what would it be?

RAINE: Shoes (laughs).

LYNKAGE: What did you like most about being a kid?

RAINE: Other than the music part of my life I was actually a tom boy climbing trees and all that stuff.

LYNKAGE: If not music what else?
RAINE: Anything in entertainment I honestly think that is what I am destined to do, I definitely would like to have a shoe line also and just running my own business.

LYNKAGE: What do you plan to achieve in the next five years.

RAINE: Well to be alive and to be a household name in the music industry, a lot of people recognize me now but I’m still not established as yet. there is way more for me to achieve and I want to take my career international.

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