{"id":242857,"date":"2025-10-22T11:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=242857"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:46:06","slug":"mike-sabath-talks-production-songwriting-and-collaborating-on-the-global-success-of-superstar-raye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mike-sabath-talks-production-songwriting-and-collaborating-on-the-global-success-of-superstar-raye\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Bravery is rewarded, fear is the ultimate killer of anything.’"},"content":{"rendered":"

MBW\u2019s World\u2019s Greatest Producers series sees us interview \u2013 and celebrate \u2013 some of the outstanding talents working in studios across the decades. Mike Sabath is the creative collaborator behind Raye’s recent global breakout. He has also produced artists such as Sabrina Carpenter, Liam Payne and Madison Beer – and is about to release a debut album of his own. World\u2019s Greatest Producers is supported by Kollective Neighbouring Rights<\/span><\/a>, the neighbouring rights agent that empowers and equips clients with knowledge to fully maximise their earnings.<\/p>\n

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Mike Sabath<\/strong> traveled halfway round the world to get to Glastonbury<\/strong> 2025, but it was only when he arrived that he realized exactly why he was there.<\/p>\n

Stood in the crowd as Raye<\/strong> \u2013 much of whose landmark My 21st Century Blues<\/em> <\/strong>album Sabath had produced \u2013 entranced the Pyramid Stage<\/strong>, lost in her moment of personal and musical redemption, he had his own flash of revelation.<\/p>\n

\u201cRaye and I met when we were 18 or 19,\u201d he says. \u201cGetting to watch an artist play in tiny rooms and make music with them, have that music connect and then be standing with 100,000 people at Glastonbury and they\u2019re singing our lyrics is fucking ridiculous.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting to see the vision that I always had for her and always believed in and she always, at her core, believed in for herself, and people crying, dancing and singing\u2026 It was absolutely beautiful. Making something that connects is such an insane feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, Sabath would hardly be the first musician to arrive on Worthy Farm and get high on the leylines and the general vibes. But you get the impression he\u2019s always like this. He speaks passionately about how music is core to the human experience and how his recent solo tour, in which he drove around America in an RV, recording in the wild and playing shows for whoever and wherever would have him, was driven to prove his personal \u201cthesis that humans are good\u201d.<\/p>\n

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