Rayna Alisia Jaymes (née Wyatt; previously Conrad[1]) is a fictional character and one of two leads in the ABC/CMT musical drama series Nashville.

[7] Britton has stated that her performance as Jaymes is based on several country singers, including Faith Hill, Reba McEntire, and Bonnie Raitt.

[8] The Nashville writers also consulted country star Sara Evans when creating Jaymes' character so that her experience of being a working mother in the music industry could be accurately portrayed.

The couple worked together for a large part of Jaymes' 90s catalogue as he was her lead guitarist for two decades on tour and a frequent collaborator.

Ultimately Rayna had personal issues and had to break up with Deacon due to his destructive patterns after multiple iconic albums and tours worked on together.

The couple moved to a mansion in Nashville during the height of Jaymes music career and had two daughters together, Maddie and Daphne.

Maddie was born in 1999, the same year as Rayna's smash album Until You Kissed Me & multi-platinum song "This Love Ain't Big Enough".

Daphne was born in 2004, a year after the release of Jaymes' multi-platinum record Double Down featuring the fan favorite song "Already Gone" which peaked at No.

In 2010, she released her first self-titled album Rayna Jaymes and followed it up in 2012, with the gold selling Belt Buckle Blues featuring top 20 country single "It's My Life".

She ultimately canceled her Belt Buckle Blues Tour and co-headlined with country-pop singer Juliette Barnes on the single "Wrong Song".

Deacon Claybourne) 1997: "The Best Songs Come from Broken Hearts" 1999: "This Love Ain't Big Enough" 1999: "Surrender" (feat.

Deacon Claybourne) 2003: "Already Gone" 2006: "I Wanna Do (Everything for You)" 2008: "The End of the Day" 2012: "It's My Life" 2012: "Stomping Ground" 2012: "Buried Under" 2012: "Wrong Song" (feat.

Juliette Barnes, Gunnar Scott, Avery Barkley, Will Lexington, Scarlett O'Connor, Maddie Conrad, Daphne Conrad) Edgehill Republic Entertainment Records: (1990–2013) Highway 65 Records: (2013–2017) After two decades of topping the charts, Rayna Jaymes' career has begun to fall.

Her latest album flopped so her record label suggests she open for the young country pop star Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere).

Later in the day when Rayna and Teddy are not home, Maddie snoops through her mother's closet and finds a box that contains a paternity test.

On the night Juliette plays a show at the Bluebird Cafe, Rayna runs after a drunk Deacon who leaves the café when the two notice each other.

During the season, Rayna and Deacon are able to repair their friendship following the events of the wreck and his discovery that he is Maddie's biological father.

Rayna then explains to her that Jeff only wants to sign her so he can show her off to his board so they will see that he has a female artist on his roster, then forget about her.

When the CMA's finally come around, Rayna immediately wins the first award of the night for 'Single of the Year', beating Luke.

On the day of the wedding, Rayna tells Luke she can't marry him and calls it off, leaving him furious.

He keeps his distance from her for a while until she asks him to sing with her to celebrate the tenth anniversary of her induction into the Grand Ole Opry.

On her way back home in Nashville, Rayna hears the radio DJ's criticizing her about letting Juliette go and how she is not that good at running a label.

Maddie is concerned about her parents getting married because sometimes Deacon can be violent; for instance, when he pushed a paparazzi photographer out of the way and broke his camera in rage.

She agrees to play at a private event in Silicon Valley hosted by an app developer named Zach Wells (who is a fanboy of hers) as a way to bring in money.

The police take her home, and as she is on the phone with Deacon to tell him what happened an oncoming car crashes into them, sending Rayna to the hospital.

Following her death, Bucky announced that the CMT Awards (where Rayna was scheduled to perform) had planned a musical tribute by Faith Hill.

Maddie breaks down halfway through the song and is then joined by Daphne and Deacon, with the trio receiving a standing ovation from the crowd.

Deacon goes into their home studio where he finds Bucky, Gunnar, Scarlett, Will, Avery, Juliette, Maddie and Daphne all singing along with Rayna's recording of the track "You're Mine" and he joins them, seeing it as their final song together.

The two discuss their relationship with Deacon telling Rayna that he feels everything is too good to be true and after all the things he's done and all the drama they've seen, he finds it hard to believe that the two are together.

Rayna tells him that yes, they've hurt each other and they have their past, but reassures him that once in everyone's life, someone gets into your bloodstream and it doesn't matter how much they fail each other, they must choose each other.