BicRunga
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- Visites sur le profil: 1 139
- Profil créé: December 2006
- www.bebo.com/BucRunga
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- Sony Label indépendant
- Ville d'origine:
- Christchurch Nouvelle-Zélande
- À propos de moi
- Hailing from Christchurch, New Zealand, Bic grew up in a family where music and art were positively encouraged. Drums were eleven year old Bic's first passion; by her mid-teens she was singing with jazz groups. At school she toyed with ambitions of becoming a poet but, after taking up guitar and keyboards, channelled her muse into writing her own songs. Bic moved to Auckland in 1994 to pursue a recording career, and spent a year writing, performing and building a reputation with her powerful solo live shows. In September 1995, aged nineteen, Bic signed as a recording artist with Sony Music New Zealand and in December that year Sony released her first single, the hauntingly beautiful "Drive".
Those who meet Bic may be surprised at the contrast between her bright, bubbling personality and the dark, brooding quality of some of her tracks on Drive. Says Bic; "I keep my morbid side to myself, but that tends to be the side of me that writes the songs".
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Awards
Her debut album has now achieved 6 X platinum in New Zealand! She won seven major awards including Album of the Year, Single of the Year ("Sway"), Best Female Vocalist and Best Songwriter in the 1998 New Zealand Music Awards.
rianz awards 1995
most promising female vocalist of the year: bic runga
apra silver scroll 1996
song writing award: 'drive'
rianz awards 1996
top female vocalist of the year: bic runga
rianz awards 1997
single of the year: sway
album of the year: drive
top female vocalist of the year: bic runga
songwriter of the year: bic runga
sound engineer of the year: simon sheridan
rianz awards 1998
international achievement: bic runga
rianz awards 1999
international achievement: bic runga
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Birds
Birds is a superb distillation of Bic Runga's incredible songwriting talent and her firm grasp on the universal language of romance. Undercurrents of subtle melancholy in songs like the breathtaking and spacious 'Captured' and 'Say After Me' flow through to uplifting notes of hope in first single 'Winning Arrow' and 'If I Had You'. Taking the role of album producer herself, Bic convened her band that included Neil Finn (Piano and Guitar) in Auckland's Monte Cecilia House in August 2005. Built in 1879, with wonderfully detailed architecture complete with parquet floors, elaborate ceiling roses, marble fireplaces and four-storeyed tower overlooking a wooded park. Bic's approach for the album harked back to jazz recordings of the 50s and beyond and the timeless pop recordings from before single instrument track-laying became the norm in the 1970s. There is a natural intimacy between instruments and voices playing live in the same room. By the time an eight piece string section and further0 commentaires 1114 jours
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Beautiful Collision
While living in New York, Bic wrote several songs which would be recorded for her second solo album, beautiful collision - including the album's first single get some sleep. Other songs from the new album were written after Bic returned to New Zealand in 1999. The album was released in 2002. It entered the New Zealand charts at number one and went on to become the best selling album in New Zealand.
Beautiful Collision is the second solo album by New Zealand artist Bic Runga, released on July 1, 2002 in New Zealand, July 15, 2002 in Australia, and November 5, 2002 in the USA. This album went eleven times platinum in New Zealand, and was named Highest Selling Album at the New Zealand Music Awards. RIANZ ranked Beautiful Collision first in the New Zealand Top 50 Albums of 2003. It charted for 49 weeks. It ranked 19th in the New Zealand Top 50 Albums of 2004 for a further 28 weeks.
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Hello
get off her page you stupid bitches!
Had away play as my first dance at my wedding on Sunday everybody loved your song x
only new 2 this just found your page love your stuff big fan
love you work bic.. love it ..
Ive loved all your music since day one!! When will you play in Hamilton, new Zealand next?
awesome. awesome. awesome.
hey bic love the page. when can we expect to see u in ireland again? love to see u back here.
Next time Bic's in Dublin, I'll have her big stew for her, as promised!
wow i luv ur music!
XxX
hey,been a fan from the get-go,awesome soundz bic,soothing to the soul,rok on 4 the land of the long white cloud!!!!cherrrr!!!!!!!!!
who want a free love?
Please view my page coz i need 10000 views by midnite so plz help mah out
check out my band list and join Chad Michael Murrayz fan club page he is damnnnnnnnnnnnnn sexy..lol...
luv ya all
dont stray, dont ever go away... should be much too smart for this....
Come back to play in Cork soon!
this really you?well who ever reads this, please come back to ireland for another concert.youre savage
i love your music,i listened to it the night before my wedding....we love u!!
if this is your "real" profile on bebo, it'd be good to connect with you when you're in CH CH sometime and come to a gig. I write songs for artists overseas and am a session keyboardist.
Glyn