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Troy Kingi (Te Arawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) is an actor and multi-award-winning, multi-genre musician from Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Kingi rose to fame after the release of his first two multi-award-winning albums ‘Guitar Party at Uncles Bach’ and ‘Shake That Skinny Ass All the Way to Zygertron’, along with memorable major roles in Kiwi films including ‘Hunt For The Wilderpeople’, ‘The Pā Boys’, ‘Mt Zion’ and ‘The Breaker Upperers’.
“Troy Kingi is not like most musicians, he has a masterplan” - Graham Reid
Over and above his love for acting, Kingi’s passion for music has led to a successful and ever-expanding artistic career. A hard task master on his own creativity. He is a prolific songwriter and serial collaborator, with voracious capacity and freakish efficiency.
The 10 |10 | 10 Series, has so far travelled through genres of Blues, Deep Roots, Psychedelic Soul, Funk, Folk and 80’s. Troy’s audience have lovingly followed him on this journey, never knowing what the next release will bring, avidly collecting all formats of the releases and attending all the many & varied shows - putting rest to all the Industry “Nay Sayers” who said “genre jumping” could not be done! AllGood Absolute Alternative Records bought into his vision and over the last 8 years, together have made this a reality .
Kingi rose to fame after the release of his first two multi-award-winning albums ‘Guitar Party at Uncles Bach’ and ‘Shake That Skinny Ass All the Way to Zygertron’, along with memorable major roles in Kiwi films including ‘Hunt For The Wilderpeople’, ‘The Pā Boys’, ‘Mt Zion’ and ‘The Breaker Upperers’.
“Troy Kingi is not like most musicians, he has a masterplan” - Graham Reid
Over and above his love for acting, Kingi’s passion for music has led to a successful and ever-expanding artistic career. A hard task master on his own creativity. He is a prolific songwriter and serial collaborator, with voracious capacity and freakish efficiency.
The 10 |10 | 10 Series, has so far travelled through genres of Blues, Deep Roots, Psychedelic Soul, Funk, Folk and 80’s. Troy’s audience have lovingly followed him on this journey, never knowing what the next release will bring, avidly collecting all formats of the releases and attending all the many & varied shows - putting rest to all the Industry “Nay Sayers” who said “genre jumping” could not be done! AllGood Absolute Alternative Records bought into his vision and over the last 8 years, together have made this a reality .
Genres
: nz reggaeMonthly listeners
117,942
Followers
36,363
Top Cities
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Auckland27,966 listeners -
Christchurch10,015 listeners
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Hamilton9,414 listeners
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Wellington6,546 listeners
Most popular tracks
| Track | Plays | Duration | Release date | |
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14,084,031 | 3:13 | 2014-07-21 | |
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6,004,463 | 4:18 | 2020-07-31 | |
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4,433,692 | 3:41 | 2013-10-21 | |
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2,709,003 | 5:16 | 2017-11-28 | |
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1,674,765 | 4:27 | 2017-11-28 | |
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1,229,033 | 3:49 | 2020-04-15 | |
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1,112,601 | 3:47 | 2020-09-11 | |
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869,261 | 4:24 | 2013-10-21 | |
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754,674 | 3:13 | 2019-05-31 | |
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574,535 | 4:14 | 2021-02-06 |
