Famous for her 2013 album Rayve, which peaked at number twenty-five on Japan's Oricon music chart, the pop singer known as Ray is also notable for her Japanese top thirty singles "Rakuen Project," "Recall," "Ebb and Flow," and "Lull Soshite Bokura Wa."
At the start of her career, she contributed the music track "Sign" to the anime series Waiting in the Summer.
When covering popular songs, she performs under the stage name of Clione Reika.
Born Reika Nakayama, she spent her youth in Hokkaido, Japan.
She contributed a music track to the anime series Amnesia; Tetsuya Kakihara worked on the same project as a voice actor.