In 1996, singer Pauly Fuemana and producer Alan Jansson wrote a smash hit that came to define the decade and changed New Zealand’s music industry forever. Those who were there recall how it happened
wenty-seven years ago this April, a curious Kiwi track jumped to No 1 on the Australian music charts. How Bizarre by OMC was the little song that could, eventually taking out No 1 in five countries, topping the US Mainstream Top 40 and reaching No 5 in the UK.
The pair reunited in 2007 to work on the OMC song 4 All of Us, featuring Lucy Lawless, a year after Fuemana was declared bankrupt. But even then, it was clear he was unwell: he died three years later from respiratory failure resulting from an auto-immune disorder, leaving behind his wife, Kirstine, and their six children.
Pauly was one of the cool guys around my clubs, Cause Célèbre and The Box. One of the great things about the clubs was the multiculturalism – if you were cool enough, you got in.You’ve really got to point to Simon and that early nightclub scene. He came from punk rock and a lot of the boot-boys were Polynesian or Māori. We always saw a multicultural audience. It came into sharp focus at Cause Célèbre and The Box.
When we did the Auckland Big Day Out, the whole rap community got up and walked out, to show they didn’t approve of what we were doing. I was disgusted. When we got to Sydney, there was only about 50 people there. Pauly sang brilliantly and talked to the Samoans in Samoan and the Māori in te reo. They loved him.
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