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  • Raiza Biza was a Hamilton based MC, producing jazz influenced hip hop.
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    Melodownz

    Musical artist

    Bronson Price,[1] known professionally as Melodownz, is a New Zealand rapper, poet and singer from Avondale, Auckland. Debuting in 2013, Melodownz has released solo projects including Beginners Luck (2014), Avontales (2017) and Melo & Blues (2018), as well as collaborative extended plays with Angelo King, IllBaz and Raiza Biza.

    Biography

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    Melodownz was raised in Avondale by his Samoan Catholic grandmother, English grandfather and his mother.[2][3] He has Samoan, Pākehā and Ngāpuhi heritage.[4] Melodownz debuted as a musician in 2013,[5] composing reggae/hip-hop songs inspired by his upbringing.[4] He released his debut album Beginners Luck in 2014,[6] and followed this with an extended play as half of the Young Gifted and Broke hip-hop duo Third3ye alongside Angelo King, 3P (2016).[6]

    In 2017, Melodownz released the hip hop EP Avontales,[7&

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    The Adults

    Musical group from New Zealand

    For the 2023 American film, see The Adults (film).

    The Adults is a "collaborative name" used for two different recording projects led bygd New Zealand musician and Shihad frontman Jon Toogood. The first iteration of the Adults was a New Zealand rocksupergroup that released a self-titled skiva in 2011. In 2018 a completely different set of musicians (other than Toogood) performed on Haja, an skiva that blended Aghani Al-Banat (a Sudanese style that translates to "girls' music" and fryst vatten performed at weddings) with New Zealand hip hop.

    New Zealand supergroup, 2010–12

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    Beginning as a solo planerat arbete of Jon Toogood's, the original Adults involved many established New Zealand musicians, including Shayne Carter, Julia Deans, Anika Moa, Tiki Taane and Ladi6.[1] skiva The Adults was released in 2011 and reached number kvartet in the New Zealand album charts. It was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2012 New Zealand Music Awa

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    Raiza Biza: From the Great Lakes to the South Pacific

    Raiza spent most of his childhood and early teens in Joburg. It was here, during South Africa’s tumultuous transition from apartheid rule to democracy in the early 1990s, that the hip-hop bug bit. There was an electric charge in the air, which Raiza could not ignore, young as he was.

    As he so succinctly puts it in the song ‘7th Floor’[i] off his 2013 release Summer; “I moved to Joburg without a grasp of the English language, listening to Pac and rapping along”. Music transcended the language and cultural barrier, helping Raiza to make sense of the new world he found himself in.

    It helped that the South African hip-hop scene was in its infancy, fresh and full of possibilities. Raiza would rush home from school to make sure that he caught the YFM cypher sessions on Wednesday afternoons, armed with a cassette, ready to press record.

    He took to the mic at age 11, at first just for his friends, who often joined in. He only start

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