Biography: About Bic

From the Sony Music NZ Ltd. website, and updated bio for 2002.

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Bic Runga is 26 years old. She is of chinese and maori heritage, born and raised in Christchurch. Bic now lives between Auckland (near to her parents and two sisters) and wherever else in the world she needs to be.

In 1997, bic recorded her debut album Drive - over a two month period with one engineer, and a handful of musicians - and produced it herself.

Drive was released in New Zealand in 1997 and the rest is new zealand music history. The album won a swag of Tui awards, including album of the year, single of the year (sway), best female vocalist and best songwriter. Bic also won the coveted silver scroll For songwriting for the album's title track.

The album went on to become the biggest selling local artist album of all time in New Zealand - more than 7 x platinum.

Over the following 2 years, Drive was successfully released all around the world and Bic travelled relentlessly, promoting and peforming, sometimes alone with an acoustic guitar, sometimes with a band. Rarely able to return home to the other end of the
world, bic was based for long periods in New York city.

While living in New York, Bic wrote several songs which would be recorded for her second 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.

In late 1999, Bic began recording her follow up to Drive. Relishing the freedoms afforded by the digital format and by again self-producing, bic moved between studios In the USA and New Zealand, utilising the skills of many engineers and many more musicians. Recording was undertaken to varying degrees in New York, Los Angeles, Auckland (including Bic's home studio), Wellington and Christchurch.

In February 2002, Bic and her hard drive travelled back to New York for the mixing of the album by mix engineer Michael Brauer (Coldplay, New Radicals) at Quad Studios. It is appropriate that the recording of the last track on Beautiful Collision - Gravity - was only completed at quad while Brauer was busy mixing the other tracks.

Beautiful Collision is available at your favourite music outlet now!.