At one in the morning, Lark was struck with a blorbo thought:
When Raf's career started making the pivot from ""classical violin prodigy"" to ""teen pop sensation"" between the age of 13-16 years old or w/e, part of his insane PR circuit was doing collaborations and being featured in tracks by other way more behemothly popular [but elegant, maturely branded] musical artists. Specifically, he'd be featured as a violinist in these massive hit pop tracks.

So like, "Track Name by HUGE FAMOUS ARTIST [Feat. Raf Ephrem]" And Raf's contributions wouldn't be vocal but instrumental[violin]. It'd have been an amazing way to quickly get his name into international households early, cus what 90's ballad isn't made a bajillion times better with a nice violin solo featured in it??

This is a lot of words to say that--in the Hi-Note universe, the violin featured in the song "To Love You More" by Celine Dion song is a 15 year old Raf.
And it kicked off a much larger trend at the time.