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• 3 The Hard Way
  3 The Hard Way
  3 The Hard Way is a New Zealand hiphop group formed in 1994.-History:3 The Hard Ways first release was Hip Hop Holiday, which was released in 1994. The song spent five weeks at the top of the New Zealand charts, selling in excess of thirty thousand copies, and became a Kiwi anthem...
  
   - hip-hop band; "Hip-Hop Holiday" (1994) reached #1
• The 3Ds
  The 3Ds
  The 3Ds were an alternative pop/rock band based from Dunedin, New Zealand, together from 1988 to 1997. The band was formed in May 1988 by* Dominic Stones — drums,* Denise Roughan — bass, keyboards, tambourine, vocals...
  
  
• 48May
  48May
  48May is a New Zealand pop rock group. The band consists of Jon Austin , CaptainHook , Stan Bicknell and Shannon Brown...
  
  
• 8 Foot Sativa
  8 Foot Sativa
  8 Foot Sativa is a New Zealand-based metal band formed in 1998. Their most famous single is their self titled song, "8 Foot Sativa", which was number one on M2's top 12 list for 12 weeks, and stayed on the chart for seven months...
  
  

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• Aaradhna
  Aaradhna
  Aaradhna Jayantilal Patel , better known by her stage name Aaradhna, is a New Zealand-award winning, R&B/pop recording artist, writer and record producer, signed under the music label Dawn Raid Entertainment...
  
  
• Able Tasmans
  Able Tasmans
  The Able Tasmans were an indie band from Auckland, New Zealand.At various times, the band consisted of Leslie Jonkers, Peter Keen, Graeme Humphreys, Craig Mason, Jane Dodd , and Ronald Young. They formed in 1984, and named themselves after the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. They released four albums...
  
  
• Chris Abrahams
  Chris Abrahams
  Chris Abrahams is a Sydney-based pianist, best known for his jazz work.Abrahams has been a member of the Benders, the Laughing Clowns, The Sparklers and The Necks. He has recorded several solo albums, as well as collaborations with Melanie Oxley from the Sparklers...
  
  
• Adeaze
  Adeaze
  - Studio albums :-Singles:-References:*Jewell, Stephen. . New Zealand Musician Magazine. Retrieved October 20, 2006.-External links:**...
  
  
• Bruce Aitken
  Bruce Aitken
  Bruce Aitken, QSO, is a Canadian rock and jazz drummer. Later in his career he also became a singer and songwriter....
  
  
• Ardijah
  Ardijah
  -History:Ardijah formed in 1979 and spent the early part of the Eighties playing the Auckland Pub and Club scene honing their skills as a covers band. They released their first single in 1986, Give Me Your Number which was followed in 1987 with Your Love Is Blind...
  
  
• Atlas
  Atlas (band)
  Atlas were a New Zealand rock band which originally formed in 2005 but disbanded in late 2008.In April 2005, in Hollywood, California, producer Hank Linderman introduced NZ rocker Ben Campbell and his sister Beth Campbell, to 19 year old American solo artist Sean Cunningham...
  
  
• Billy Fluid
• Bailter Space
  Bailter Space
  Bailter Space is an atmospheric noise rock band that formed in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1987 as Nelsh Bailter Space; they had previously recorded as The Gordons. Its members are Alister Parker , John Halvorsen , Brent McLachlan...
  
  
• Christopher Banks
  Christopher Banks
  Christopher Banks is a New Zealand journalist, musician, record producer, songwriter and film-maker.- Deep Obsession :Banks was responsible for eight top 30 New Zealand hits for three different acts between 1998 and 2002....
  
  
• Johnny Barker
  Johnny Barker (actor)
  Johnny Barker is a New Zealand actor and professional musician. As a musician, he is currently focusing on his solo project after the breakup of his previous band, Nephew.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Bats
  The Bats
  The Bats are an influential New Zealand rock band formed in 1982 in Christchurch by Paul Kean , Malcolm Grant , Robert Scott and Kaye Woodward...
  
  
• Daniel Bedingfield
  Daniel Bedingfield
  Daniel John Bedingfield is a British singer-songwriter. He is the brother of pop singers Natasha Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle.-Music career:...
  
   - singer (moved to the UK)
• Natasha Bedingfield
  Natasha Bedingfield
  Natasha Anne Bedingfield is a British pop singer and songwriter. Bedingfield debuted in the 1990s as a member of the Christian dance/electronic group The DNA Algorithm with her siblings Daniel Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle...
  
  
• Betchadupa
  Betchadupa
  Betchadupa is a New Zealand pop/rock group.Formed in 1997, in Auckland, the band features Liam Finn, son of Neil Finn, of Crowded House and Split Enz and Matt Eccles, son of Brent Eccles ....
  
  
• Carly Binding
  Carly Binding
  Carly Binding is a New Zealand pop singer-songwriter, and former member of the girl group TrueBliss. In 2000 she left the group, citing personal differences, and decided to pursue a solo career. Her debut solo album Passenger peaked at #6 on the New Zealand album charts and went gold. It was also...
  
  
• Birchville Cat Motel
  Birchville Cat Motel
  Birchville Cat Motel is a one-man experimental music project formed by Campbell Kneale from Wellington, New Zealand. Although largely unknown in his home country, Kneale has toured throughout Japan, America, Europe, and Australia. His first vinyl release was Jewelled Wings on the Freedom From label...
  
  
• The Black Seeds
  The Black Seeds
  The Black Seeds are a musical group from Wellington, New Zealand. Their music is a fusion of dub, funk, afrobeat and soul.The Black Seeds have two double-platinum selling albums at home, and successful European album releases through the German-based Sonar Kollektiv label...
  
  
• Blam Blam Blam
  Blam Blam Blam
  Blam Blam Blam were a New Zealand pop/rock/alternative band. Tim Mahon and Mark Bell had been members of The Plague and The Whizz Kids...
  
  
• The Bleeders
• Blerta
  Blerta
  Blerta , was a New Zealand musical and theatrical co-operative active in the 1970s....
  
  
• Blindspott
  Blindspott
  Blindspott is a nu metal/alternative rock band from Waitakere, New Zealand. They were formed in 1997, originally consisting of Damian Alexander , Marcus Powell , Shelton Woolright , Gareth Fleming and Karl Vilisini, also known as DJ Dlay .-Formation and debut album :Blindspott began in 1997 and...
  
  
• Jack Body
  Jack Body
  Jack Body is a New Zealand composer, photographer, artist and ethnomusicologist.He studied at Auckland University from 1963–67. With a QEII Arts Council grant he attended the Ferien Kurse fur Neue Musik, Cologne and Institute of Sonology, Utrecht, Netherlands...
  
   - composer
• Kevin Borich
  Kevin Borich
  Kevin Nicholas Borich is a New Zealand-born Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter...
  
  
• Boyband
  Boyband (New Zealand band)
  Boyband are a New Zealand pop group created in September 2006 from the winners of The Edge radio station's promotion to manufacture New Zealand's first boy band. The Edge Radio station hosted auditions across the New Zealand to find the best males for the band...
  
  
• Bret Mckenzie
  Bret McKenzie
  Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie is a comedian, actor, musician and producer, best known for being one half of the Grammy Award winning musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords along with Jemaine Clement....
  
  
• Graham Brazier
  Graham Brazier
  Graham Brazier is a New Zealand musician and songwriter. He first came to prominence in the band Hello Sailor. After Hello Sailor he formed a band called the Legionnaires...
  
  
• The Brunettes
  The Brunettes
  The Brunettes are an indie pop or twee pop group from New Zealand formed in 1998. The band consists of core members Jonathan Bree and Heather Mansfield with additional contributions from part-time band members including James Milne , Ryan McPhun , Harry Cundy, and most recently,...
  
  
• Rosina Buckman
  Rosina Buckman
  Rosina Buckman was a New Zealand soprano, and a professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music. She was born in Blenheim, and studied in England at the Birmingham School of Music. She then returned to New Zealand, toured Australia and debut in London with La boheme at Covent Garden...
  
   - opera singer
• Brook fraser

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• Edwin Carr
  Edwin Carr (composer)
  Edwin Carr was a composer of classical music from New Zealand.-Biography:Edwin Carr was born in Auckland and was educated at Otago Boys' High School from 1940 to 1943. He studied music at Otago University from 1944-5 and Auckland University College from 1946, then left with his degree unfinished...
  
  
• Shayne Carter
  Shayne Carter
  Shayne Carter is best-known for being the Straitjacket Fits' principal singer/songwriting/guitarist in the late 80s/early 90s, and later on a founding member of Dimmer.Carter comes from a musical family...
  
  
• Che Fu
  Che Fu
  Che Fu MNZM is a New Zealand Hip hop/R&B and Reggae recording artist and producer. Originally one part of the band Supergroove, as a solo artist he has gone on to sell thousands of albums both in New Zealand and internationally, including in Australia and the UK.-History:Fu is one of New Zealand's...
  
  
• The Chills
  The Chills
  The Chills are a guitar and keyboard-based rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand. In the 1980s and 1990s, they were one of the proponents of the Dunedin Sound.- History :...
  
  
• Darcy Clay
  Darcy Clay
  Darcy Clay was an Auckland, New Zealand singer/songwriter, who was made famous in 1997 for his minor hit "Jesus I Was Evil", in which he recorded all instruments in his bedroom on a 4-track recorder...
  
  
• The Clean
  The Clean
  The Clean are an influential Indie rock band that formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1978. Led through a number of early rotating line-ups by brothers Hamish and David Kilgour, the band settled down to their well-known and current line-up with bassist Robert Scott...
  
  
• Jemaine Clement
  Jemaine Clement
  Jemaine Clement is a New Zealand comedian, actor and musician, best known as one half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords along with Bret McKenzie.-Early life:...
  
   - member of folk/pop/comedy duo Flight of the Conchords
  Flight of the Conchords
  Flight of the Conchords are a New Zealand-based comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. The duo's comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2007 on HBO, also called Flight of the Conchords.They were named...
  
  
• Chanel Cole
  Chanel Cole
  Chanel Cole is a musician from Bega, New South Wales. She is a member of the Australian trip hop group Spook....
  
  
• Ray Columbus
  Ray Columbus
  Ray Columbus is a New Zealand solo singer and entertainer who has had a career spanning six decades. He was lead singer of Ray Columbus & the Invaders who had a hit with She's A Mod in the 1960s. Since then he has been a solo singer and television host.-Links:* *...
  
   - singer, TV presenter
• Concord Dawn
  Concord Dawn
  Concord Dawn, is a New Zealand drum and bass group, active since mid 1999. It consists of Matt Harvey and Evan Short...
  
  
• Ashley Cooper
  Ashley Cooper (singer)
  Ashley Cooper is a New Zealand Country singer and former contestant on the second series of New Zealand Idol. After being the fourth person to be eliminated out of the top ten on idol, she released her first single "I Want You", which debuted at nineteen and eventually peaked at number nine...
  
  
• Crowded House
  Crowded House
  Crowded House are a rock band, formed in Melbourne, Australia and led by New Zealand singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is the primary songwriter and creative director of the band, having led it through several incarnations, drawing members from New Zealand , Australia and the United States...
  
  
• Annie Crummer
  Annie Crummer
  Annie Crummer is a New Zealand Pop singer and songwriter who has seen success in both a solo career and as part of various musical groups.She grew up in West Auckland. Her father, a Cook Islander, was one of her strongest musical influences...
  
  
• Cut Off Your Hands
  Cut Off Your Hands
  Cut Off Your Hands are an indie pop band from New Zealand influenced largely by post punk and indie pop groups such as The Smiths, Gang of Four, Orange Juice, Talking Heads, as well as NZ post-punk of The Mint Chicks and This Night Creeps...
  
  

• The D4
  The D4
  The D4 was a rock band from Auckland, New Zealand. Their music was released by Hollywood Records in the U.S., Flying Nun Records in New Zealand and by Infectious Records in the UK....
  
  
• David Dallas
  David Dallas
  David Dallas is a New Zealand hip-hop artist of Samoan/European descent. Formerly known as Con Psy as part of the rap duo Frontline.- Career :...
  
  
• Dam Native
  Dam Native
  Dam Native is a New Zealand hip hop group formed in 1992.-History:Dam Native is a New Zealand hip hop group that was prominent during the mid to late 1990s. Its first members consisted of Danny Haimona and Bennett Pomana, now an ex-member...
  
  
• The Datsuns
  The Datsuns
  The Datsuns are a hard rock band from Cambridge, New Zealand, formed in 2000. To date they have released four albums and several singles, most of which have charted in New Zealand and/or the United Kingdom...
  
  
• Dawn of Azazel
  Dawn of Azazel
  Dawn of Azazel is a death metal band from New Zealand. They have played around the world in countries such as U.S., Switzerland , Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Czech Republic, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Austria, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia...
  
  
• DD Smash
  DD Smash
  DD Smash was a New Zealand pop/rock band formed by Dave Dobbyn after the breakup of Th'Dudes.-Members:Members included Dave Dobbyn , Peter Warren , Rob Guy , both formerly of Lip Service , and Lisle Kinney , formerly of Hello Sailor.-Origin:Originally formed in New Zealand, the band was resident...
  
  
• The Dead C
  The Dead C
  The Dead C are a New Zealand based noise rock trio made up of members Bruce Russell, Michael Morley and Robbie Yeats. Most often, Russell plays electric guitar, Morley sings and plays electric guitar or laptop, and Yeats plays drums....
  
  
• Deep Obsession
  Deep Obsession
  Deep Obsession are a New Zealand dance/pop group formed by producer/songwriter Christopher Banks in 1997 with singers Zara and Charlie Lawson....
  
  
• Deja Voodoo
  Deja Voodoo (New Zealand band)
  -History:Deja Voodoo began as the fictional house band in the New Zealand television show Back Of The Y Masterpiece Television, which featured them in 15 seconds of mimed rock n' roll at the start of each episode. This led to a nationwide tour, which featured a finale where the band members smashed...
  
  
• Lynette Diaz
  Lynette Diaz
  Lynette Diaz is an American-born singer-songwriter living in Christchurch, New Zealand. Her song "Living Before Dying" was awarded an Honorable Mention at the 2008 Peacedriven Songwriting Contest and also at the 12th Annual Unisong Songwriting Competition....
  
  
• Die! Die! Die!
  Die! Die! Die!
  Die! Die! Die! is a noise pop/punk three-piece from Dunedin, New Zealand, formed in late 2003 and signed to Flying Nun Records.Their self-titled album Die! Die! Die! was released in 2005 in New Zealand, with an international release soon after. It was recorded in Chicago's Electrical Audio by...
  
  
• Dimmer
  Dimmer (band)
  Dimmer is a musical group from New Zealand. The driving force behind the band is Shayne Carter, a prominent New Zealand musician and member of such bands as Straitjacket Fits and Double Happys. The band have released four full length albums, "I Believe You Are A Star" , "You've Got To Hear The...
  
  
• Dave Dobbyn
  Dave Dobbyn
  Dave Dobbyn, ONZM is an award-winning New Zealand musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. In his early career he was a member of the rock group Th' Dudes and was the main creative force in pop band DD Smash...
  
   - singer, songwriter
• Graeme Downes
• Dr Kevorkian & the Suicide Machine
• Dragon
  Dragon (band)
  Dragon is a popular New Zealand rock band, they were formed in Auckland, New Zealand in January 1972 and relocated to Sydney, Australia in May 1975. They were previously led by singer Marc Hunter and are currently led by his brother bass player Todd Hunter...
  
  
• Dribbling Darts
  Dribbling Darts
  Dribbling Darts were a New Zealand band based in Auckland which existed from 1989 to 1993. The name is a quote from William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act I, Scene III: "Believe not that the dribbling dart of love..." .The band were formed by Matthew Bannister when his move from Dunedin to...
  
  
• Th' Dudes

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• Electric Confectionaires
• Elemeno P
  Elemeno P
  Elemeno P is a New Zealand rock band. The band's first album, Love & Disrespect was released on 4 July 2003, and reached number one on the RIANZ albums chart. Their second album, Trouble in Paradise was released on 24 November 2005 and includes the singles 11:57, Burn, One Left Standing and You Are...
  
  
• The Enemy
  The Enemy (New Zealand band)
  The Enemy were a band from Dunedin, New Zealand, that are often seen as the starting point of the Dunedin Sound rock movement.Though the band did not release any official recordings, some of their performances are available in bootleg form. They are seen as hugely influential on the development of...
  
  
• Evermore
• The Exponents
  The Exponents
  The Exponents are a New Zealand rock group led by vocalist and songwriter Jordan Luck.Their major hits, including "Why Does Love Do This To Me", "Who Loves Who The Most", "Victoria", "I'll Say Goodbye " and "Whatever Happened To Tracey" have been taken up by successive generations of younger New...
  
  
• Breaks Co-Op
  Breaks Co-Op
  Breaks Co-op is a New Zealand band, formed in 1997, first through music company FMR and more recently with EMI.The band members are Andy Lovegrove, Zane Lowe, and Hamish Clark....
  
  
• Andrew Fagan
  Andrew Fagan
  Andrew Fagan is a prominent New Zealand writer, singer and songwriter. He was born in 1962 and grew up in Wellington. He gained fame in New Zealand in the 1980s as the lead singer of pop group The Mockers....
  
  
• The Fan Club
  The Fan Club
  The Fan Club is a novel by Irving Wallace published in 1974.-Plot summary:Adam Malone is a supermarket manager in Los Angeles who is obsessed with blonde movie star Sharon Fields. While watching her on a television in a bar one night he meets four other men who are also enamored of her. They get...
  
  
• David Farquhar
  David Farquhar (composer)
  David Andress Farquhar was born in Cambridge, New Zealand in 1928 but spent most of his early years in Fiji.He was educated in New Zealand and began his university studies in Christchurch before completing his degree at Victoria University of Wellington where he studied with Douglas Lilburn...
  
   - composer
• Fast Crew
  Fast Crew
  -Albums:-Singles:-Singles featured on compilation albums:The group have appeared on several compilations over the years in New Zealand and overseas...
  
  
• Fat Freddy's Drop
  Fat Freddy's Drop
  Fat Freddy’s Drop is a seven-piece band from Wellington, New Zealand, whose musical style has been characterised as any combination of dub, reggae, soul, jazz, rhythm and blues, and techno. Originally a jam band formed in the late 1990s by musicians from other bands in Wellington, Fat Freddy’s Drop...
  
  
• The Feelers
  The Feelers
  The Feelers are a New Zealand rock band formed in the early 1990s in Christchurch by James Reid , Matthew Thomas and Hamish Gee .-History:...
  
  
• Liam Finn
  Liam Finn
  Liam Mullane Finn is a New Zealand musician and songwriter. Born in Australia, he moved to New Zealand as a child...
  
  
• Neil Finn
  Neil Finn
  Neil Mullane Finn, OBE is a New Zealand Pop recording artist. Along with his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman for Split Enz and is now frontman for Crowded House...
  
   - singer, songwriter
• Tim Finn
  Tim Finn
  Brian Timothy "Tim" Finn, OBE is a New Zealand singer and musician. Finn is most known for his music with New Zealand 1970s and 1980s rock group Split Enz, and later for his solo work, a temporary membership in his brother Neil's band Crowded House and his joint efforts with Neil Finn as the Finn...
  
   - singer, songwriter
• Flight of the Conchords
  Flight of the Conchords
  Flight of the Conchords are a New Zealand-based comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. The duo's comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2007 on HBO, also called Flight of the Conchords.They were named...
  
  
• Foamy Ed
  Foamy Ed
  Foamy Ed is a New Zealand pop punk girl band.They formed in high school in 1996, since then the band released their debut EP Go Where U Know in 2000 and another EP A Moment's Need. They have performed in the Big Day Out and many national gigs...
  
  
• Brooke Fraser
  Brooke Fraser
  Brooke Gabrielle Fraser Ligertwood, better known as Brooke Fraser is a New Zealand award-winning folk-pop and Christian music artist...
  
   - singer, songwriter
• The Front Lawn
  The Front Lawn
  The Front Lawn was a New Zealand musical/theatrical duo formed by Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair. From 1989-90, they were joined by Jennifer Ward-Lealand. Their song Andy appeared at number 82 in the Top 100 New Zealand Songs...
  
  
• Frontline
  Frontline (band)
  -History:The New Zealand hip hop group known as 'Frontline' is a two man hip hop team: Samoan-European MC David Dallas and producer and DJ Nick Maclaren DJ 41:30...
  
  
• Fur Patrol
  Fur Patrol
  Fur Patrol is a rock band, originally from Wellington, New Zealand, now based in Melbourne, Australia.Their debut EP, Starlifter, was released on the independent Wellington label Wishbone in 1998. Their debut album Pet was produced by David Long, guitarist of the Six Volts and the The Mutton Birds...
  
  
• Fuser
  Fuser (band)
  -History:The group was assembled by brothers Ian Black and Peter Black, who put together a collection of songs with the intention of recording and releasing them. This was done during March 2003, and by September 2003, Ian had assembled a live four-piece line-up....
  
  

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• Garageland
  Garageland
  Garageland was an indie rock band on New Zealand's Flying Nun record label. Influenced by Pixies, Pavement, The Clean and The Velvet Underground, they were critically acclaimed in the UK and US for their well-crafted and catchy pop songs...
  
  
• Steve Gilpin
  Steve Gilpin
  Steve Gilpin was a New Zealand-born vocalist best known for his work in the rock band Mi-Sex.Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Gilpin began his career as a cabaret singer in hotels. His star rose in 1972 when he was the winner of television talent show New Faces. After releasing a string of singles...
  
  
• Goldenhorse
  Goldenhorse
  -Studio albums:-Singles:-Charity singles:-External links:*...
  
  
• Goodnight Nurse
  Goodnight Nurse
  Goodnight Nurse was a pop punk band from New Zealand, formed in Auckland, in 2001. The group originally began as a trio, but later changed to a four-piece prior to the release of their second album...
  
  
• Goodshirt
  Goodshirt
  Goodshirt are an innovative Alternative/pop/rock band from Auckland, New Zealand. Its members are Gareth Thomas, brothers Murray and Rodney Fisher and drummer Mike Beehre.-History:...
  
  
• GST
• Nathan Haines
  Nathan Haines
  Nathan Haines is a New Zealand jazz and adult contemporary saxophonist.-Life and career:Haines was born in 1972. His father, Kevin, played jazz bass, and his brother, Joel, played guitar. Haines played gigs with Joel across New Zealand, before moving to New York in 1991 to study jazz...
  
  
• Hallelujah Picassos
  Hallelujah Picassos
  Hallelujah Picassos were a reggae, rap, ska, thrash, jazz, pop crossover band from Auckland, New Zealand. They started life in 1988 as a garage punk band The Rattlesnakes...
  
  
• Dame Joan Hammond
  Joan Hammond
  Dame Joan Hilda Hood Hammond, DBE, CMG was an Australian operatic soprano, singing coach and champion golfer.- Early life :...
  
   - violinist, soprano
• Dei Hamo
  Dei Hamo
  - Albums :- Singles :- External links :***- See also :*New Zealand hip hop...
  
  
• Headless Chickens
  Headless Chickens
  The Headless Chickens were a New Zealand band. Going against the grain of the Dunedin sound that dominated the Flying Nun Records roster at the time, the Headless Chickens made extensive use of electronic instruments in their music.-History:The Headless Chickens recorded three albums, Stunt Clown...
  
  
• Hello Sailor
  Hello Sailor (band)
  Hello Sailor was a New Zealand pop/rock band originally formed in 1975.- History :The band's history is long and complicated, with guitarist/vocalists Dave McArtney and Harry Lyon having first played together in the mid 1960s. After several lineup changes, the band released its first album, Hello...
  
  
• Jan Hellriegel
  Jan Hellriegel
  Jan Hellriegel is a singer/songwriter based in Auckland, New Zealand.Her first recorded appearances were in Dunedin band Working With Walt in the mid-1980s when Jan studied at the University of Otago in Dunedin...
  
  
• Herbs
  Herbs (band)
  Herbs are a New Zealand reggae vocal group formed in 1979 once described as "New Zealand's most soulful, heartfelt and consistent contemporary musical voice". It has been said their debut EP Whats' Be Happen? "set a standard for Pacific reggae which has arguably never been surpassed".-History:Herbs...
  
  
• Hipshooters
• HLAH
  HLAH
  HLAH is a rock band from Wellington, New Zealand.-History:HLAH formed in Wellington, originally consisting of Nigel Regan, Mark Hamill, Nigel Beazley and Andrew Durno....
  
  
• Paul Holmes
  Paul Holmes (broadcaster)
  Paul Holmes CNZM is a radio and television broadcaster in New Zealand. he hosts Q+A on TV ONE, and the Saturday morning radio show on Newstalk ZB, where for 23 years until December 2008 he hosted the weekday breakfast show, the long-standing number one rating breakfast show...
  
  
• Marc Hunter
  Marc Hunter
  Marc Alexander Hunter was a New Zealand rock and pop singer best known as the lead vocalist with Dragon, a band formed by his older brother Todd in Auckland in 1973....
  
   - singer (moved to Australia)
• Luke Hurley
  Luke Hurley
  Luke Hurley is an independent New Zealand guitarist and singer-songwriter, who works mostly outside the confines of the music industry. He was born in Kenya, and later moved with his family to Gore in Southland, New Zealand when aged 12...
  
  
• Hybrid
• Invaders
  Ray Columbus & the Invaders
  Ray Columbus & the Invaders were a rock group from New Zealand active from 1964 to 1966.The group was influenced by the early 1960s work of Cliff Richard and The Beatles. They scored a #1 hit in Australia and New Zealand with "She's a Mod" in 1964, a cover version of a song by The Senators. They...
  
  
• Idol Fret
  Idol Fret
  Not to be confused with a New Zealand band of the same name, this Idol Fret was a rock band from Saddleworth, Oldham, England, mostly known for playing in clubs and pubs around the east of Manchester...
  
  
• Ivy Lies
  Ivy Lies
  -Singles:-Band members:*Emla Palmer - lead vocals, rhythm guitar *Lisa Blatchford - bass guitar, backing vocals *Rosie O'Connell - drums...
  
  

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• J. Williams (Joshua Williams) - singer, dancer
• Jakob
  Jakob (band)
  Jakob is a New Zealand post-rock band, based in the Hawkes Bay city of Napier. The band consists of guitarist Jeff Boyle; bassist Maurice Beckett; and drummer Jason Johnston...
  
  
• Jamoa Jam
  Jamoa Jam
  Jamoa Jam are an Auckland Polynesian vocal quartetSam Tu'uga produces the Samoan four-piece girl group Pacific Soul.-Discography:...
  
  
• Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
  Jean-Paul Sartre Experience
  The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience, later renamed JPS Experience after a lawsuit by the estate of Jean-Paul Sartre, were an indie rock band on New Zealand's Flying Nun Records.-History:...
  
  
• Greg Johnson
  Greg Johnson (musician)
  Greg Johnson is a singer/songwriter of melodic, lyric-based pop. He has seen success both as a solo artist and writing for others. Since 2002 he has been a resident of the United States, living in California.-Music career:...
  
  
• Katchafire
  Katchafire
  Katchafire is a New Zealand roots reggae band from Hamilton, New Zealand.Katchafire formed in 1997 as a Bob Marley tribute band and later began writing and performing their own songs...
  
  
• Kimbra
  Kimbra
  Kimbra Johnson , known mononymously as Kimbra, is a New Zealand singer/songwriter from Hamilton, New Zealand. She is currently based in Melbourne, Australia. Kimbra's debut album Vows was released on 29 August 2011 in New Zealand, and 2 September 2011 in Australia on Warner Bros...
  
  
• King Kapisi
  King Kapisi
  King Kapisi is a New Zealand Hip hop recording artist. He was the first Hip hop artist in New Zealand to receive the prestigious Silver Scroll Award at the APRA Awards for Songwriter of the Year for his single Reverse Resistance in 1999, which followed on the popular release of his debut single...
  
  
• The Knobz
  The Knobz
  The Knobz were a New Zealand pop band, originally based in Dunedin, but not considered part of that city's main wave of "Dunedin Sound" bands. They became famous in 1980 with their political song "Culture?" criticising Robert Muldoon, who was Prime Minister at the time and had stated that New...
  
  
• Chris Knox
  Chris Knox
  Chris Knox is a New Zealand rock and roll musician, cartoonist, and DVD reviewer who emerged during the punk rock era with his bands The Enemy and Toy Love. After Toy Love disbanded in the early 1980s, he formed the group Tall Dwarfs with guitarist Alec Bathgate, much loved for their honest,...
  
   - singer, songwriter
• Kora
  Kora (band)
  Kora is a New Zealand five-piece music group, which consists of four brothers from the Kora family. The band, which originally began in Whakatane, New Zealand fuses elements of reggae, rock, dub, roots, funk, and more recently space funk and dub step elements.-Early years: 1991–2002:Kora brothers...
  
  
• Shona Laing
  Shona Laing
  Shona Laing is a New Zealand musician. She has had several hits in her native country, as well as a few minor international hits, most notably " Not a Kennedy" and "Soviet Snow". Laing also contributed to the Manfred Mann's Earth Band album Somewhere in Afrika...
  
  
• Douglas Lilburn
  Douglas Lilburn
  Douglas Gordon Lilburn ONZ FRCM was a New Zealand composer.-Early life:Lilburn was born in Wanganui. He attended Waitaki Boys' High School from 1930 to 1933, before moving to Christchurch to study journalism and music at Canterbury University College...
  
   - composer, educator
• Look Blue Go Purple
  Look Blue Go Purple
  Look Blue Go Purple was an alternative pop/rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand, together from 1983 to 1987, recognised as part of the Dunedin Sound.-Members:* Kathy Bull — bass* Norma O'Malley — keyboards, flute* Lesley Paris — drums...
  
  
• Courtney Love
  Courtney Love
  Courtney Michelle Love is an American rock musician. Love is the lead vocalist, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989, and is an actress who has moved from bit parts in Alex Cox films to significant and acclaimed roles in The People vs...
  
   - singer, actress (born in San Francisco, California
  California
  California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
  
  , U.S., but spent the childhood on a sheep farm in Nelson
  Nelson, New Zealand
  Nelson is a city on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay, and is the economic and cultural centre of the Nelson-Tasman region. Established in 1841, it is the second oldest settled city in New Zealand and the oldest in the South Island....
  
  , where went to a boarding school
  Boarding school
  A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...
  
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• Eddie Low
  Eddie Low
  Edward Robert Low is a New Zealand born musician currently living in Christchurch, New Zealand.In the early 1960s Eddie Low played in showbands, and with the Quintikis toured with the annual Miss New Zealand contest. He also appeared in the film Don't Let It Get You with the Quintikis, Howard...
  
  
• Jordan Luck
  Jordan Luck
  Jordan Luck was the lead singer and songwriter for the New Zealand rock band The Exponents. He was born in Vanderhoof in the province of British Columbia, Canada, but his family moved to Tokarahi and later moved to Geraldine where he grew up. He attended University of Canterbury and College House...
  
  
• Ben Lummis
  Ben Lummis
  Ben Lummis is a New Zealand R&B/Pop recording artist who rose to musical fame as the winner of the First season of New Zealand Idol in 2004. He is of Māori and Pākehā and Tongan descent...
  
  

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• Ma-V-Elle
  Ma-V-Elle
  Ma-V-Elle was a R&B group from South Auckland, New Zealand.-History:Their first album earned them three trips to Europe, including two performances at the renowned Ronnie Scott's club in London. They also played the Air and Water Show, sharing the stage with the likes of Mos Def, B*witched, and...
  
  
• Bret McKenzie
  Bret McKenzie
  Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie is a comedian, actor, musician and producer, best known for being one half of the Grammy Award winning musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords along with Jemaine Clement....
  
   - member of folk/pop/comedy duo Flight of the Conchords
  Flight of the Conchords
  Flight of the Conchords are a New Zealand-based comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. The duo's comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2007 on HBO, also called Flight of the Conchords.They were named...
  
  
• Ryan McPhun and the Ruby Suns
• Malvina Major
  Malvina Major
  Dame Malvina Lorraine Major, GNZM, DBE is a New Zealand opera singer. She was born in Hamilton, New Zealand into a large musical family. As a child she performed at various concerts, singing mainly country and western pop and music from the shows. She received her first classical training in 1955,...
  
   - opera singer
• Midge Marsden
  Midge Marsden
  Keith Douglas "Midge" Marsden MNZM is a New Zealand blues and R&B guitarist, harmonica-player, and singer with a musical career spanning four decades.-Biography:...
  
  
• Elizabeth Marvelly
  Elizabeth Marvelly
  Elizabeth Lillian Marvelly , is a soprano from Rotorua, New Zealand. Marvelly was a scholarship student at King's College, Auckland in 2007.-Debut Album:...
  
  
• Ricky May
  Ricky May
  Ricky May was a musician who found fame in New Zealand and Australia.He was of Māori descent. He played a little drums and piano but was known best as a vocalist...
  
  
• Mi-Sex
  Mi-Sex
  Mi-Sex was a New Zealand new wave rock band active from 1978 to 1984. Led by Steve Gilpin as vocalist, they were best known for their singles "Computer Games" in 1979 and "People" in 1980.-History:...
  
  
• Midnight Youth
  Midnight Youth
  Midnight Youth are a New Zealand rock band formed in 2006. Their debut album, The Brave Don't Run, was released in 2009 in New Zealand and Australia. The band have subsequently toured and played festivals across Australasia, the United States and Asia...
  
  
• The Midnights
  The Midnights
  The Midnights are a contemporary New Zealand reggae band from Auckland's Grey Lynn. They are unusual among New Zealand reggae groups in their rocksteady and roots influenced sound.-Discography:-External links:***...
  
  
• The Mint Chicks
  The Mint Chicks
  The Mint Chicks were an experimental noise rock/power pop group originally from Auckland, New Zealand, who relocated to Portland, Oregon, USA in 2007...
  
  
• Minuit
• Misfits of Science
  Misfits of Science (group)
  -History:The two members met in an urban streetwear shop on Queen Street in Auckland, New Zealand in 2000. As well as 'MOS Presents...', they have released the 'Fools Love ', a remix to 'Fools Love' featuring Tuff Enchant with its own video...
  
  
• Anika Moa
  Anika Moa
  Anika Rose Moa is a New Zealand pop recording artist. In 2001 she signed to Atlantic Records in the United States and released her debut album, Thinking Room, the album reached the top of the New Zealand Singles Chart and was a commercial success.Moa was raised in Christchurch, New Zealand...
  
  
• Moana
  Moana (singer)
  Moana Maree Maniapoto MNZM is a New Zealand singer, songwriter and documentary maker.-History:As a performing and recording artist, Moana has pushed the boundaries of Māori music with her unique blend of traditional Maori musical elements and contemporary western grooves.Both her recorded and...
  
  
• Moana and the Moahunters
  Moana (singer)
  Moana Maree Maniapoto MNZM is a New Zealand singer, songwriter and documentary maker.-History:As a performing and recording artist, Moana has pushed the boundaries of Māori music with her unique blend of traditional Maori musical elements and contemporary western grooves.Both her recorded and...
  
  
• Roy Montgomery
  Roy Montgomery
  Roy Montgomery is a guitarist from Christchurch, New Zealand.He has played in several New Zealand bands, including Compulsory Fun, Murder Strikes Pink, The Pin Group, The Shallows, Dadamah and Dissolve...
  
  
• Jenny Morris - singer, songwriter
• Sir Howard Morrison
  Howard Morrison
  Sir Howard Leslie Morrison, OBE, was a New Zealand entertainer. From 1964 until his death in 2009 he was one of New Zealand's leading television and concert performers.-Early life:...
  
   - entertainer
• Mother Goose
  Mother Goose (band)
  Mother Goose was a 1970s New Zealand band formed in Dunedin, in 1975.Only eighteen months after forming, Mother Goose had smashed attendance records for gigs in every city in Australia and New Zealand...
  
  
• Michael Murphy
  Michael Murphy (singer)
  Michael Murphy is a singer and New Zealand Idol runner-up for 2004. Right from the start of the competition, Michael was a hot favourite with the majority of the voters being female and aged between 11-17...
  
  
• The Mutton Birds
  The Mutton Birds
  The Mutton Birds was a band from New Zealand formed in 1991 by Don McGlashan, Ross Burge, and David Long.-History:All three members came into the band with experience: McGlashan came from Blam Blam Blam and The Front Lawn, guitarist Long had played in the Six Volts and Burge had played in the...
  
  

N-O-P

• Optimus Gryme
• Oscar Natzka
  Oscar Natzka
  -Early life:Born as Franz Oscar Natzke at Wharepuhunga, North Island, New Zealand, he was the son of August Natzke , who had emigrated to New Zealand and settled in Otorohanga, and Emma Carter Natzke, of Christchurch, New Zealand, who was a singer.As a boy, the young Natzke worked...
  
    - opera singer
• Nesian Mystik
  Nesian Mystik
  Nesian Mystik was a New Zealand Hip-Hop/R&B group formed in 1999. Their cultural backgrounds unite a remarkable diversity of Polynesia by bringing together Cook Island, Tongan, Samoan and Maori ancestry...
  
  
• Netherworld Dancing Toys
  Netherworld Dancing Toys
  Netherworld Dancing Toys is a New Zealand band from Dunedin formed in 1982.-History:The group formed at the University of Otago. The band members included Malcolm Black, Nick Sampson, Graham Cockroft, Brent Alexander and later Annie Crummer, Kim Willoughby...
  
  
• Mike Nock
  Mike Nock
  Mike Nock is a jazz pianist, currently based in Australia. He began studying piano at 11 and by 18 was performing in Australia. He headed a trio that toured England in 1961 and then attended Berklee College of Music...
  
  
• Nurture
  Christopher Banks
  Christopher Banks is a New Zealand journalist, musician, record producer, songwriter and film-maker.- Deep Obsession :Banks was responsible for eight top 30 New Zealand hits for three different acts between 1998 and 2002....
  
  
• OMC
  OMC (band)
  OMC, or Otara Millionaires Club, was a music group from Auckland, New Zealand best known for their 1996 hit "How Bizarre", named one of the greatest New Zealand songs of all time by the Australasian Performing Right Association...
  
  
• Simon O'Neill
  Simon O'Neill
  Simon O'Neill is a New Zealand-born operatic tenor.-Biography:O'Neill was born in Ashburton, New Zealand and received his musical training at the University of Otago, Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with an honours degree in music, before receiving scholarships to the Manhattan...
  
   - opera singer
• Opshop
  Opshop
  Opshop is a New Zealand rock band formed in 2002. Their first album, You Are Here was released in 2004. Their second album, Second Hand Planet was released in 2007 and received Triple Platinum certification. It produced the successful single, One Day...
  
  
• Pacifier
• Emma Paki
  Emma Paki
  Emma Paki is a New Zealand singer/songwriter.She won Most Promising Female Vocalist, Best Song Writer and Best Video at the 1993 New Zealand Music Awards....
  
  
• Rosy Parlane
  Rosy Parlane
  Rosy Parlane is an electronic musician from New Zealand, based in London since 2000. He was in the New Zealand trio Thela, then went on a solo career, as well as co-founding the Sigma Editions record label.-Overview:...
  
  
• Parmentier
  Parmentier (band)
  Parmentier were a short-lived electronic music band from New Zealand, based in Australia. It was founded in 1996 by Rosy Parlane and Dion Workman . They toured, then released two albums in 1998.-Discography:...
  
  
• Suzanne Paul
  Suzanne Paul
  Suzanne Paul is a British-born television personality and celebrity in New Zealand, who became famous for her roles as an infomercial hostess and television presenter. She grew up in the working class area of Whitmore Reans, Wolverhampton, and worked as a sales demonstrator for almost two decades...
  
  
• The Phoenix Foundation
  The Phoenix Foundation
  The Phoenix Foundation are an progressive indie rock band formed in Wellington, New Zealand.-Early years and China Cove:Founded by Conrad Wedde, Samuel Flynn Scott, and Luke Buda in 1997 while students at Wellington High School, they were joined by Tim Hansen , Richie Singleton and Will Ricketts ...
  
  
• Pitch Black
  Pitch Black (band)
  Pitch Black is a New Zealand electronica band that was formed in 1997.-Discography:* 1999: Futureproof* 2000: Electronomicon* 2001: Electric Earth and Other Elements - Remixes* 2003: Flex* 2004: Ape to Angel...
  
  
• Pluto
  Pluto (NZ band)
  Pluto is a New Zealand rock band from Auckland. Their album Pipeline Under The Ocean, released in 2005 went double platinum on the RIANZ albums chart.-Band members:*Milan Borich *Tim Arnold...
  
  
• P-Money
  P-Money
  -Albums:-Singles:-External links:* - News, video clips, downloads* - Information, photos, and video clips...
  
  
• Dalvanius Prime
  Dalvanius Prime
  Maui Dalvanius Prime was a New Zealand entertainer and songwriter. His career spanned 30 years. He mentored many of New Zealand's Māori performers, and was a vocal and forthright supporter of Māori culture.-Early life:...
  
  
• Pumpkinhead
  Pumpkinhead
  Pumpkinhead is a 1988 supernatural horror film. It was the directorial debut of noted special effects artist Stan Winston. While Pumpkinhead received mixed reviews, the film has built up a cult following in the years since its release.-Plot:...
  
  
• Push Push
  Push Push (band)
  Push Push was a glam metal rock band of the 1990s from Auckland, New Zealand. They were best known for their single "Trippin'".- Lineup :From the album A Trillion Shades of HappyVocals - Mikey HavocGuitar - Andy Kane...
  
  

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• The Rabble
  The Rabble
  The Rabble are a Punk Rock band from Auckland, New Zealand, that formed in the NZ summer of 2000/2001. Their official myspace page went live on 29 February 2004. The Rabble are strong believers in the DIY attitude. They collaborated with Mark Unseen of Boston band The Unseen to create the...
  
  
• Jordan Reyne
  Jordan Reyne
  Jordan Reyne is an experimental musician from New Zealand, who has been variously described as "industrial-tinged folk“ and "antipodean Steampunk“ yet defies any cut and dried description. She combines the two usually disparate genres of folk and industrial, bringing in celtic vocal melody,...
  
  
• Dean Roberts
  Dean Roberts
  Dean Roberts is a musician from New Zealand. During the mid 1990s he was a member of the trio Thela with Rosy Parlane and Dion Workman. After Thela disbanded, Roberts recorded 3 solo albums under the name White Winged Moth, followed by a series of releases under his own name.Along with Martin...
  
  
• John Rowles
  John Rowles
  John Edward Rowles OBE is a New Zealand singer. He was most popular in the 1970s and early 1980s, and most famous for his song Cheryl Moana Marie, which he had written about his kid sister back home in New Zealand.Rowles is part Māori. His father, Eddie Hohapata Rowles, played for the 1938 Māori...
  
   – singer
• Bic Runga
  Bic Runga
  Briolette Kah Bic Runga MNZM is a New Zealand pop recording artist whose first solo album, Drive, debuted at number one on the New Zealand RIANZ charts. She has since become one of the highest-selling New Zealand artists in recent history...
  
   - singer, songwriter
• Bruce Russell

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• Salmonella Dub
  Salmonella Dub
  Salmonella Dub are a Dub/Drum n Bass/Reggae/Roots band from Kaikoura, New Zealand. They were formed in 1991 by Andrew Penman, David Deakins and Mark Tyler...
  
  
• Satellite Spies
  Satellite Spies
  Satellite Spies is a New Zealand pop rock band formed in 1984 by Deane Sutherland and Mark Loveys. Their first hit single was Destiny in Motion. In 1985, they were voted Most Promising Band and Mark Loveys was voted Most Promising Male Vocalist at the New Zealand Music Awards.The band supported...
  
  
• Savage
  Savage (rapper)
  - Studio albums :-Singles:-Featured singles:- External links :*****...
  
  
• Brett Sawyer
• Scribe
  Scribe (rapper)
  Malo Luafutu better known by his stage name Scribe, is a New Zealand hip hop rapper and recording artist of Samoan descent...
  
   - rapper
• Shapeshifter
  Shapeshifter (band)
  Shapeshifter are a live Drum & Bass act from New Zealand. They have been heralded as a musical phenomenon for their ground breaking live shows and unique blend of heavy soul with drum and bass...
  
  
• Shihad
  Shihad
  Shihad is a New Zealand hard/alternative rock band, currently based in Melbourne, Australia. During Shihad's recording career, they have produced four number-one studio albums and three top-ten singles in their home country of New Zealand....
  
  
• Sisters Underground
  Sisters Underground
  Sisters Underground is a New Zealand RnB and hip hop group formed in 1994.-History:Best known for their 1994 hit In The Neighbourhood, the single spent 12 weeks in the New Zealand Top 50 Singles Chart, peaking at #6 and has more recently been used on TV2 advertisements...
  
  
• Smashproof
  Smashproof
  Smashproof is a New Zealand Hip hop/Rap male group. Smashproof consists of Young Sid, Tyree and Deach. They are best known for the single "Brother" which spent eleven consecutive weeks at number one on the New Zealand RIANZ singles chart in 2009. The song "Brother" features singer Gin Wigmore.The...
  
  
• Snapper
  Snapper (band)
  Snapper was a New Zealand indie/alternative band formed by Peter Gutteridge, previously in The Clean, The Chills and The Great Unwashed.The band evolved from the line-up of another Gutteridge-led band, the Dunedin-based Phromes...
  
  
• Sneaky Feelings
  Sneaky Feelings
  Sneaky Feelings were a 1980s New Zealand pop/rock band, led by Matthew Bannister, who recorded on the Flying Nun label. Initially recording with the line-up of Bannister , David Pine , Kat Tyrie and Martin Durrant , Tyrie was replaced by John Kelcher early in the band's career...
  
  
• Spacifix
  Spacifix
  Spacifix is a New Zealand Funk/Soul/Blues/R&B and Reggae boy group from West Auckland, New Zealand. They formed in April 2003 with the view of entering the Smoke Free Pacifika Beats national competition. Aged between 13 and 18 years they won the competition first time up...
  
  
• Split Enz
  Split Enz
  Split Enz were a New Zealand band of the 1970s and early 1980s featuring Phil Judd and brothers Tim Finn and Neil Finn. They achieved chart success in New Zealand, Australia, and Canada during the early 1980s ‒ most notably with the single "I Got You", and built a cult following elsewhere...
  
  
• Stellar*
• Steriogram
  Steriogram
  Steriogram is a rock band that formed in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1999. Their 2004 song "Walkie Talkie Man" was used in an advertisement for the iPod and a number of films and video games.-Formation and first album, 1999–2005:...
  
  
• Jon Stevens
  Jon Stevens
  Jon Stevens is a New Zealand-born singer of Maori descent, now an Australian citizen. Stevens is the brother of New Zealand Idol judge Frankie Stevens....
  
  
• Straitjacket Fits
  Straitjacket Fits
  Straitjacket Fits formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1986 and were a prominent band in the Flying Nun label's second wave of the Dunedin Sound.-Biography:...
  
  
• Supergroove
  Supergroove
  Supergroove is a New Zealand funk rock music group. Their debut album Traction was released in 1994. The group disbanded in 1997 but recently reformed in 2007.- History :...
  
  
• The Swingers
  The Swingers
  The Swingers were a New Zealand rock band. Formed out of the remnants of The Suburban Reptiles, the founding members were Phil Judd , Wayne Stevens , and Mark Hough . Formed in 1979, the band released the single "One Good Reason" which was a top 20 hit in New Zealand...
  
  

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• Tiki Taane
  Tiki Taane
  Tiki Taane is a New Zealand musician and former member of leading New Zealand band Salmonella Dub. Taane left Salmonella Dub on 1 January 2007 to pursue a solo career...
  
  
• Tadpole
  Tadpole (band)
  Tadpole was a female-led New Zealand band from Auckland that formed in June 1994.- Before 2000 :Between the band's beginning and 1999 Tadpole went through so many lineup changes that there soon ended up being no original members left in the band. At one point early in their career the band were so...
  
  
• Tall Dwarfs
  Tall Dwarfs
  Tall Dwarfs are a New Zealand rock band formed in 1981 by Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate who, through their do-it-yourself ethic, helped pioneer the lo-fi style of rock music. The duo formed out of the ashes of Toy Love....
  
  
• Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
  Kiri Te Kanawa
  Dame Kiri Jeanette Te Kanawa, ONZ, DBE, AC is a New Zealand / Māori soprano who has had a highly successful international opera career since 1968. Acclaimed as one of the most beloved sopranos in both the United States and Britain she possesses a warm full lyric soprano voice, singing a wide array...
  
   - opera singer
• Inia Te Wiata
  Inia Te Wiata
  Inia Watene Tauhia Te Wiata was a New Zealand Māori bass-baritone opera singer, film actor and carver.-Early life:Inia Te Wiata was born in Otaki, New Zealand, into the Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga Iwi...
  
   - opera singer
• The Tigers
  The Tigers (band)
  The Tigers was a four piece rock band from Wellington, New Zealand.The band was formed in 1980, and quickly developed an enviable live reputation, securing performance slots including the Sweetwaters Music Festival while touring the North Island of New Zealand between 1980 and 1981.The single Heart...
  
  
• Jon Toogood
  Jon Toogood
  Jonathan Charles Toogood is the frontman of the New Zealand rock band Shihad. He formed the band in 1988 with fellow Wellingtonian Tom Larkin...
  
   - Lead singer of the band Shihad
• Topp Twins
  Topp Twins
  The Topp Twins are the folk singing sister comedy duo of New Zealand entertainers Jools and Lynda Topp.They are known for their country music influenced style, live shows and television performances. They are openly lesbian...
  
  
• Toy Love
  Toy Love
  Toy Love was a New Zealand New Wave/punk rock band fronted by Chris Knox. Other members were guitarist Alec Bathgate, bass player Paul Kean, drummer Mike Dooley, and keyboard player Jane Walker...
  
  
• TrinityRoots
  TrinityRoots
  TrinityRoots are a successful band based in Wellington, New Zealand. Although they are commonly associated with New Zealand reggae they also embody a stripped back, jazz and soul influenced rhythmic sound, which often builds up to highly emotional drum- and guitar-led crescendos.Like their...
  
  
• True Bliss
• Truth (Dubstep Artist)
  Truth (Dubstep Artist)
  Tristan Roake and Andre Fernandez, better known as Truth are a dubstep production duo from Christchurch, New Zealand. They first rose to prominence in 2008 when Mala of Digital Mystikz signed their debut single The Fatman / Stolen Children for his Deep Medi Musik label...
  
  
• TV2 Stars
  TV2 Stars
  TV2 Stars is a one-off collection of New Zealand celebrities who appeared on programmes featured in TV2 in 2000. Together they sang a rendition of Sonny & Cher's I Got You Babe, renamed I Got 2 Babe....
  
  
• Two Lane Blacktop
  Two Lane Blacktop
  Two Lane Blacktop was a hard rock band from Wellington, New Zealand who formed in 2001 and disbanded in 2003. The band wrote all its songs about movies and was named after a 1971 film directed by Monte Hellman...
  
  
• Unity Pacific
• Upper Hutt Posse
  Upper Hutt Posse
  Upper Hutt Posse is a musical band in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The progenitors of Hiphop music in the South Pacific originally formed as a four piece reggae group in 1985, the Posse emerged at the forefront of the local response to emerging rap culture...
  
  
• Keith Urban
  Keith Urban
  Keith Lionel Urban is a New Zealand-born Australian, country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States and Australia. Urban was born in New Zealand and began his career in Australia at an early age...
  
   - singer
• Margaret Urlich
  Margaret urlich
  Margaret Urlich is an ARIA Award-winning musician based in New South Wales. Urlich came to Sydney, Australia, in 1988 to pursue her singing career. Her debut solo album, Safety in Numbers, was highly successful winning Breakthrough Artist - Album at that years ARIA Awards, as was the follow-up...
  
  
• Rosita Vai
  Rosita Vai
  Rosita Vai is a New Zealand R&B singer who rose to musical fame as the winner of the Second season of New Zealand Idol in 2005.Prior to her win, Rosita managed to stay out of the 'bottom three' contestants for the entire competition...
  
  
• The Verlaines
  The Verlaines
  The Verlaines are a rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand. Formed in 1981 by Graeme Downes, Craig Easton, Anita Pillai, Phillip Higham and Greg Kerr, the band went through multiple line-ups before going on an extended hiatus after their 1997 album Over The Moon. In 2003 a career retrospective, You're...
  
  

W

• Stan Walker
  Stan Walker
  Stan Walker , is an Australian recording artist and actor. In 2009, Walker was the winner on the seventh season of Australian Idol. He subsequently signed a recording contract with Sony Music Australia....
  
  
• Dean Wareham
  Dean Wareham
  Dean Wareham is an American musician, who formed the band Galaxie 500 in 1987. Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Wareham moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia, before settling in New York City in 1977. Wareham attended high school at Dalton School in New York, and then attended Harvard...
  
   - singer and guitarist with Galaxie 500
  Galaxie 500
  Galaxie 500 was an American alternative rock band that formed in 1987 and split up in 1991 after releasing three albums.-History:Guitarist Dean Wareham, drummer Damon Krukowski and bassist Naomi Yang had met at the Dalton School in New York City in 1981, but began playing together during their time...
  
  , Luna (band)
  Luna (band)
  Luna was a dream pop/indie pop band formed in 1991 by Dean Wareham after the breakup of Galaxie 500, with Stanley Demeski and Justin Harwood...
  
   and Dean & Britta
• The Warratahs
  The Warratahs
  The Warratahs are a band from Wellington, New Zealand.-Early line-ups :* Barry Saunders * Wayne Mason * Nik Brown * John Donahue * Marty Jorgensen * Clint Brown * Rob Clarkson...
  
  
• Darren Watson
  Darren Watson
  Darren Watson is a New Zealand singer, songwriter and guitarist in a wide range of blues styles.Darren Watson was born in Wanganui. His first musical experience was playing drums and trumpet but he soon moved on to guitar and was playing in bars and clubs throughout his years at Hutt Valley High...
  
  
• Hayley Westenra
  Hayley Westenra
  Hayley Dee Westenra is a New Zealand soprano, classical crossover artist, songwriter and UNICEF Ambassador. Her first internationally released album, Pure, reached No. 1 on the UK classical charts in 2003 and has sold more than two million copies worldwide...
  
   - singer
• Weta
  Weta (band)
  Weta are a four piece rock band from Wellington, New Zealand.The band was formed in 1995, and quickly developed an enviable live reputation, securing support slots for the likes of Everclear, The Foo Fighters and Soundgarden Weta are a four piece rock band from Wellington, New Zealand.The band was...
  
  
• When the Cat's Away
  When the Cat's Away (band)
  The New Zealand Female vocal group When the Cat's Away, are Annie Crummer, Debbie Harwood, Kim Willoughby and Margaret Urlich. Original member Diane Swann left the band in the 1990s....
  
  
• Annie Whittle
  Annie Whittle
  Annie Whittle is a British-born New Zealand singer and actress who has appeared on such shows as Shortland Street, where she played Barbara Heywood for four years and has had a singing career that has spanned three decades....
  
  
• Gin Wigmore
  Gin Wigmore
  Virginia "Gin" Wigmore is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. In 2009, she featured on the single "Brother" by Smashproof, which reached #1 on the RIANZ singles charts for 11 weeks. In 2009 she released her debut album Holy Smoke...
  
  
• Dion Workman
  Dion Workman
  Dion Workman is a musician from New Zealand. Throughout the mid 1990s he was a member of the trio Thela with Rosy Parlane and Dean Roberts. After Thela dissolved in the late 1990s, Workman and Parlane moved to Melbourne, Australia, and recorded under the name Parmentier, as well as founding the...