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The Letter is the first single from New Zealand band Midnight Youth's debut album, The Brave Don't Run. The song debuted on the New Zealand Top 40 Singles Chart at 34th place, and peaked at 20th place. [1] The song was one of five finalists for an APRA SIlver Scroll in 2009 and sold gold, more than 7,500 copies, in New Zealand.
The music of New Zealand has been influenced by a number of traditions, including Māori music, the music introduced by European settlers during the nineteenth century, and a variety of styles imported during the twentieth century, including blues, jazz, country, rock and roll, reggae, and hip hop, with many of these genres given a unique New Zealand interpretation.
Midnight Youth were a New Zealand rock band formed in 2006. Their debut album, The Brave Don't Run , was released in 2009 in New Zealand and Australia. The band subsequently toured and played festivals across Australasia, the United States and Asia.
The New Zealand Youth Choir is a mixed choir consisting of around 50 singers, auditioned nationally every 3 years from around New Zealand. The choir accepts members aged between 18 and 25 at the time of audition, and places will generally be offered for three years.
Ka Hao is a New Zealand youth choir that formed in 2019. Coming from the Gisborne District, the group performs music in the Māori language.In 2020 the group won the Mana Reo Award at the 2020 Aotearoa Music Awards, as a part of the supergroup Mōhau.
The New Zealand hippie movement was part of an international phenomenon in the 1960s and 1970s in the Western world, heralding a new artistic culture of music, freedom and social revolution where millions of young people across the globe were reacting against old world antecedents and embracing a new hippie ethos.
New Zealand hip hop derives from the wider hip hop cultural movement originating amongst African Americans in the United States. Like the parent movement, New Zealand hip hop consists of four parts: rapping , DJing , graffiti art and breakdancing .
The NZCT Chamber Music Contest (formerly known as the Westpac School Music Contest) is a Classical music Competition held annually in New Zealand for performers up to 19 years of age who are enrolled full-time at a New Zealand primary or secondary school. Groups of 3–8 students perform a work of up to 15 minutes.