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Bic Runga
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New Zealand (1996 – present)
Briolette Kah Bic Runga (born 13 January 1976) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter whose first solo album, Drive, debuted at number one in the New Zealand charts, and has since become one of the highest-selling New Zealand artists of our time. Runga has also found success internationally in Australia and the UK.
Regarding the pronunciation of “Bic”: “‘You say it Bec, rather than Bic,’ explains New Zealand singer-songwriter Bic Runga. ‘It’s Chinese, it’s a strange vowel sound which doesn’t seem to translate in English. It means the colour of jade, which I suppose is just green.’”
Runga was born in Christchurch. Her mother, Sophia Tang, was a Chinese Malaysian lounge singer in Malaysia when she met Joseph Runga, a Māori soldier on leave from Vietnam. They both moved to New Zealand to live.
Runga grew up in Hornby, Christchurch surrounded by a musically-inclined family, and started recording songs with her sisters, Boh and Pearl, when she was only four years old. Runga’s older sister Boh is now a vocalist in the New Zealand rock group Stellar*, while Pearl is a session singer.
She learned how to play drums at the age of eleven, and guitar at about fourteen. Runga also learnt to play the keyboard at around this time. She attended Cashmere High School, joining high school bands and performing with local jazz groups by her mid-teens.
Singles
* “Bursting Through” (1996)
* “Sway” (1997) #10 Australia #1 Ireland (re-issue Ireland in 2004 went to #26)
* “Suddenly Strange” (1997)
* “Roll into One” (1997)
* “Hey” (1998)
* “Sorry” (1999)
* “Get Some Sleep” (2002) #75 United Kingdom #3 New Zealand #27 Ireland
Regarding the pronunciation of “Bic”: “‘You say it Bec, rather than Bic,’ explains New Zealand singer-songwriter Bic Runga. ‘It’s Chinese, it’s a strange vowel sound which doesn’t seem to translate in English. It means the colour of jade, which I suppose is just green.’”
Runga was born in Christchurch. Her mother, Sophia Tang, was a Chinese Malaysian lounge singer in Malaysia when she met Joseph Runga, a Māori soldier on leave from Vietnam. They both moved to New Zealand to live.
Runga grew up in Hornby, Christchurch surrounded by a musically-inclined family, and started recording songs with her sisters, Boh and Pearl, when she was only four years old. Runga’s older sister Boh is now a vocalist in the New Zealand rock group Stellar*, while Pearl is a session singer.
She learned how to play drums at the age of eleven, and guitar at about fourteen. Runga also learnt to play the keyboard at around this time. She attended Cashmere High School, joining high school bands and performing with local jazz groups by her mid-teens.
Singles
* “Bursting Through” (1996)
* “Sway” (1997) #10 Australia #1 Ireland (re-issue Ireland in 2004 went to #26)
* “Suddenly Strange” (1997)
* “Roll into One” (1997)
* “Hey” (1998)
* “Sorry” (1999)
* “Get Some Sleep” (2002) #75 United Kingdom #3 New Zealand #27 Ireland
Top Albums
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Beautiful Collision
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Drive
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Birds
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Try To Remember Everything
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Sway
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Get Some Sleep
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Drive
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When I See You Smile
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Listening for the Weather
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Something Good
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She Left on a Monday
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Say After Me
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Gravity
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Honest Goodbyes
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Precious Things
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Beautiful Collision
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Election Night
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The Be All and End All
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Suddenly Strange
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love23_123 wrote:
ARTIST WITH A MESSAGE LOOKING FOR ONLINE STREET TEAM www.myspace.com/ellielawson. Hi guys, I'm getting a STREET TEAM together online for the promotion of my new independent album Lost songs' over the next few months. It will be FUN and easy. So let me know if you'd like 2 get involved! You will get a SIGNED CD for your help! email me at ellielawson@hotmail for more info! Here is my biography: I am a singer-songwriter with a message. I'm socially conscious and try to practice what I preach. My songs are about taking action, idealistic goals and how I see the world in 2009. After a year on Atlantic Records and living in NYC for two years I just released my 2nd album independently with tracks produced by Jony Rockstar (Sugababes) Future Cut (Lily Allen) and Yoad Nevo (Jem). I am sponsored by QUIKSILVER women and marketed and promoted in Europe, USA and Australia.
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Jyroflux wrote:
I wish it wasn't so long between Bic albums...
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GraXXoR wrote:
I'm still in love with her, since I found her online after searching for an image of a Bic ball-point pen of all things! I'm just so glad I never found that picture! Bic, you changed my musicscape forever.
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Jyroflux wrote:
All Fall Down is a treasure of a song that I love to keep finding again and again.
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leonardo_alves wrote:
Sway, Swim and Sorry... I love the 3 S's!
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leonardo_alves wrote:
Swim is so perfect, love it so much! Love her too <3
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Okist wrote:
LoVe ~.~
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alepe wrote:
luv her
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juanbsc wrote:
please God, send a new album from Bic - i've not loved a singer as much in my life as i did when i saw her in Cabaret Voltaire 4 years ago...
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vikingsally wrote:
Piękne, nastrojowe spotkanie z muzyką.
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jackieduong wrote:
HEYY.. im new here! i just added bic runga's "sway" onto my library./ But when i go to my library,and click on the bic runga cover icon, it jut takes me back to this exact page.. confused? Email me somehow plz somebody :)?
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Brazilianchap wrote:
She's a kiwi angel!!
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Amyaimz wrote:
Bic, you're truly amazing. I love "she left on a monday", such a lovely song.
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cryme_ariver wrote:
say you'll stay, dont come and go like you do ♫
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Tonnyke wrote:
love her songs much
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davidlima wrote:
amazing.
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SmurfyNZ wrote:
Her covers of Ne Me Quitte Pas and Anyone Who Had a Heart are exquisite and deserve to be higher up the charts.
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Olrox wrote:
i think i'm in love with her and i can hardly find her songs! (only got 5)...pleasee heeelpp!!!
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Pixie_zero wrote:
Beautiful Voice like an angel . Very talented ^___^
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jzY wrote:
Holy shit that's alot of 'Sway'. She's definitely not a one-hit wonder! Bic Runga's AWESOME.
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7 Worlds Collide at Largo, L.A.
11 Aug 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/bicrunga
7 Worlds Collide in Los AngelesOn Sunday, 16 August, 7 Worlds Collide will be coming to Largo for a very special surprise show. Neil
Finn will be joined on stage by KT Tunstall, Lisa Germano and Bic
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