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SPOTLIGHT: The Path to Raye Zaragoza’s ‘Garden’ [VIDEO]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Raye Zaragoza is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for August 2023. Learn more about Zaragoza and her new album, Hold That Spirit, in our interview. And read her essay about funding the album with money she’d set aside for her wedding, which was called off.
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