Merenia Gillies - Sydney (SINGER/VOCALIST)
CLUB LUXURY RECORDS
Originally from New Zealand, but living and singing weekly all over Australia, Merenia has established herself as a intelligent, savvy and multifaceted writer, musician and also a dynamic live performer. Her compositions have been used in film and television internationally. Merenia's vocal style has been described as sultry, smooth and knowing. She writes emotive, reality based songs that speak to real people. She is renowned for having an instinctive improvisational ability Her body of work includes, music used on the Once Were Warriors film soundtrack, compositions used in Television and advertising and as a winner of the New Zealand Recording Industry "most Promising female Vocalist award she is known for both her individual performances and collaborative work.
Sydney based, Merenia currently performs and records extensively throughout Australia and New Zealand working with many credible artists , including Sound Conducterz, Craig Obey, Jolyon Petch, Luke Tomes, Paul Mac, Love Tattoo , the Bamboos, Rephrase, the Word , King Kapisi, Anthony Gold, Aphro Moses and Omegaman.
Having worked on national tours for Love Tattoo and Paul Mac and contributed to writing tracks for the Omegaman & Love Tattoo albums. She is currently recording songs for her own release and has attracted attention from people such as Rasmus Faber and Louie Vega and various labels including Defected & Luxury. Merenia sings in several languages Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Maori, several African dialects, She works extensively in world music genres her vocal style is fluid between both contemporary and traditional music . All musical styles she works in she approaches with respect to the traditional owners.
Merenia has collaborated with NZ based House music project "Sound Conducterz" and their first single "Hold your Head up" was realeased in 2009 along with a music video featuring frontman of the group Jolyon Petch. The pair also rerecorded the vocals of Everything but the girls classic track - Wrong. This has been gathering DJ support from all corners of the globe and also hit the Gold Coast's radio Metro chart with a #1 placing after having spent 4 weeks on the chart. The song has been getting hammered on Radio Metro over the last 6 weeks and looks like one of summers big hits!
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