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Emma Paki

Booking Contact: [email protected]

About Me

Best Solo Artist of Year 2004 ~ Metro Magazine. Cleaned up at 1993 NZ Music Awards winning Best Songwriter award. Debut single "System Virtue" released by Tangata Records was chosen among the top 40 New Zealand songs of all time. Producer Jaz Coleman (Killing Joke - UK Band)...

Single "Greenstone" Number 5 NZ Music Charts. Produced by Neil Finn (Crowded House - Australasian Band from NZ, Split Enz - NZ).Gold Album sales "Oxygen of Love" 1997. Album released in Japan, New Zealand - Virgin / EMI. Produced by Mark Hart (Crowded House, Supertramp - USA). " 'Oxygen Of Love' is quite simply ... the most beautiful album I've ever clapped ears on". --- Waikato Times Sept 1996. ---Three Best Music Video Awards. Mana Maori Award 1997 NZ Entertainer of the Year Awards. New album in production.Booking contact for Session Recording or Performance : [email protected]


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Member Since: 3/19/2007
Band Website: karekarerecording.com
Band Members:Me with "Damn Native"..
Listen to work I did lyrics for: http://www.myspace.com/jocray Song : Jewel City - Jonathan Crayford "Big Foot" album.Some other songs I recorded are Naked Flame - Dave Dobbyn "Twist" albumWaiting - Te Kupu "Ko Te Matakahi Kupu" albumOvercome, Hold I True, Ganja Wars, Sight Divine, Great Crime, E te Iwi, Whakapapa - Upper Hutt Posse "Legacy" albumUnusually Hot - Phil Toms "Storm Warning" album Solo singing "Century Sky".
Influences: OVERSEAS INFLUENCES ARE - Randy Crawford, Stevie Wonder, Renee Geyer, Edie Brickell, Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Joan Armatrading and people who were influenced by black americans.New Zealand influences are : Mahinarangi Tocker and Syd Hirini Melbourne.
Sounds Like: Newspapers have described me as being similar to Rickie Lee Jones, Tracey Chapman and Billie Holliday.Record company and film execs have described me as like Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, India Arie, Buffy Saint Marie, Bjork, Erika Badu.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None