1. Bic Runga (1976)

New Zealand Musician

New Zealand singer who released her debut album Drive in 1997. It debuted at number one on the New Zealand Top 40 Album charts.

2. Pauly Fuemana (1969)

New Zealand Musician

Singer from New Zealand best known as one half of the successful duo OMC, most famous for the single "How Bizarre." He died from respiratory complications in January 2010.

3. Lorde (1996)

New Zealand Musician

Singer who has a debut EP called The Love Club that was released in November 2012. Her single "Royals" led her to be nominated for three Grammy Awards.

4. Neil Finn (1958)

New Zealand Musician

New Zealand-born guitarist who co-founded Split Enz and then Crowded House.

5. Dann Hume (1987)

New Zealand Musician

Multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and singer-songwriter who founded the rock band Evermore with his brothers.

6. Chris Knox (1952)

New Zealand Musician

Musician best known for his time with the punk bands Toy Love and The Enemy. He is also the author and cartoonist for the comic strip Max Media.

7. Dave Dobbyn (1957)

New Zealand Musician

Singer and producer best known for his work with the bands Th' Dudes and DD Smash. As a solo artist he won Album of the Year at the New Zealand...

8. Alannah Currie (1957)

New Zealand Musician

New Zealand musician best known as the former singer for the pop group Thompson Twins. She is also a songwriter who has written successful singles like "I Want That Man"...

9. Lakyn Heperi (1992)

New Zealand Musician

New Zealand-Australian pop singer who was a quarterfinalist on the first season of The Voice Australia. He went on to release the EPs Better Than That and Not Original Material.

10. Phil Joel (1973)

New Zealand Musician

New Zealand-born musician best known as the bassist for the Christian rock band Newsboys.

11. Jon Hume (1983)

New Zealand Musician

Guitarist and vocalist for the New Zealand group known as Evermore who has also worked as a producer for his band.

12. Phil Judd (1953)

New Zealand Musician

Australian rock musician who was a lead member in the bands Split Enz and The Swingers.

13. Julia Deans (1974)

New Zealand Musician

Julia Deans is a New Zealand singer-songwriter best known as the lead singer of rock band Fur Patrol. In the early '90s Deans joined Wellington-based celtic rock band Banshee Reel....

14. Peter Hume (musician) (1985)

New Zealand Musician

Peter Elisha Hume is a musician from Whangaparaoa New Zealand. He is a member of the alternative rock band Evermore performing with his elder brother Jon Hume and younger brother...

15. Annah Mac (1991)

New Zealand Musician

Annah Mac is a New Zealand singer-songwriter producer and musician. Her debut album Little Stranger was released on the 5 September 2011 it was listed for 7 weeks on the...

16. Paul Carnegie-Jones (1985)

New Zealand Musician

Paul Carnegie-Jones is a New Zealand pianist. He is a member of the quartet Rothko and of the Wellington-based jazz quartet SBQ. Since 2008 Carnegie-Jones has been a concert accompanist...

17. Hayden Chisholm (1975)

New Zealand Musician

Hayden Chisholm is a New Zealand saxophonist composer and multi-instrumentalist. His work has touched on a wide range of musical genres but he is best known for his jazz improvised...

18. Noel Crombie (1953)

New Zealand Musician

Noel Crombie is a New Zealand singer and former member of the band Split Enz. He fulfilled multiple roles including costume and hair designer percussionist album cover designer and music...

19. Peter Stapleton (1954)

New Zealand Musician

Peter Stapleton is a musician from New Zealand. He is principally a drummer although he has also contributed shortwave radio and tape manipulations to various recordings. In 1976 Stapleton joined...

20. Todd Hunter (1951)

New Zealand Musician

Todd Stuart Hunter is a New Zealand musician and composer known for his involvement in the band Dragon. Their best known songs are April Sun in Cuba Are You Old...

21. James Gardner (musician) (1962)

New Zealand Musician

James Gardner is a New Zealand musician and composer. Gardner was born in Liverpool England. He was a school friend of Noko and Howard Gray with whom he later formed...

22. Eddie Rayner (1952)

New Zealand Musician

Eddie Rayner is a New Zealand musician who spent twelve years as keyboardist with band Split Enz. He has also played in groups Orb Space Waltz Crowded House The Makers...

23. Michael Houstoun (1952)

New Zealand Musician

Michael Houstoun CNZM is a concert pianist from New Zealand. He has twice in his life performed the complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas and in between these achievements he overcame...

24. Mike Chunn (1952)

New Zealand Musician

Mike Chunn ONZM is a former member of the New Zealand bands Split Enz and Citizen Band. He performed alongside his brother Geoff Chunn in both bands. Chunn spent eleven...

25. Nicholas Grigsby (1992)

New Zealand Musician

Nicholas Grigsby is a prominent New Zealand concert organist academic broadcaster and music critic. A former organ scholar of Salisbury Cathedral he studied organ and improvisation with Colin Walsh Organist...

26. Graeme Revell (1955)

New Zealand Musician

Graeme Revell is a New Zealand film score composer. Some of Revell's best known film scores include The Crow Street Fighter Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie From Dusk Till...

27. Douglas Mews (Unknow)

New Zealand Musician

Douglas Mews is a New Zealand classical organist and harpsichordist. He holds the position of City Organist Wellington New Zealand. He is the brother of Constant Mews.

28. Luke Hurley (1957)

New Zealand Musician

Luke Hurley is an independent New Zealand guitarist and singer-songwriter who works mostly outside the confines of the music industry. He was born in Kenya and later moved with his...

29. Zaine Griff (1957)

New Zealand Musician

Zaine Griff is a singer-songwriter who formed part of the English new wave scene of the 1980s. Although being educated and beginning as musician in New Zealand he moved to...

30. Katherine Dienes (1970)

New Zealand Musician

Katherine Dienes is a New Zealand-born organist conductor and composer. She is currently Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral and is the first woman to hold the...

31. Glen Moffatt (1971)

New Zealand Musician

Glen Moffatt is a New Zealand country music singer-songwriter who relocated to Brisbane Australia in 2002. Moffatt was born in Hastings and raised in Napier. He was a newspaper journalist...

32. Tom Larkin (1971)

New Zealand Musician

Tom Larkin is a member of the New Zealand band Shihad in which he plays the drums and sings background vocals and a music producer.

33. Mr Yipadee (1978)

New Zealand Musician

Dean O'Brien known by his stage name Mr Yipadee is a New Zealand children's entertainer and musician who has performed in New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

34. Kris Chetan Ramlu (1989)

New Zealand Musician

Kris Chetan Ramlu is a New Zealand musician sometimes known by the stage name Cheats. Though his main instrument is the tabla Chetan plays many other percussion instruments. His biggest...

35. Jon Toogood (1971)

New Zealand Musician

Jonathan Charles Toogood is the frontman of the New Zealand rock band Shihad. He formed the band in 1988 with fellow Wellingtonian Tom Larkin. Toogood and Larkin met as teenage...

36. Coco Solid (1979)

New Zealand Musician

Coco Solid is an emcee and writer. Her musical style is a mixture of hip hop disco and electronica. She works with multiple collaborators across the globe.

37. Massad (musician) (1993)

New Zealand Musician

Massad Barakat-Devine known mononymously as Massad is a New Zealand pop musician. He co-hosts TV2 show The 4. 30 Show along with Eve Palmer and ex-The Erin Simposon Show presenter...

38. John Chen (pianist) (1986)

New Zealand Musician

John Chen is a Malaysian-born New Zealand concert pianist. In 2004 he became the youngest-ever winner of the Sydney International Piano Competition. He earned the Master of Music degree from...

39. J. Williams (singer) (1986)

New Zealand Musician

Joshua Elia Williams known by his stage name J. Williams is a New Zealand R&B recording artist and professional hip-hop dancer. He made his musical debut in 2008 with the...

40. Mike Harding (New Zealand) (Unknow)

New Zealand Musician

Mike Harding is a New Zealand folk musician born in 16 July 1952 now living in New Plymouth Taranaki.

41. Karl Kippenberger (1973)

New Zealand Musician

Karl Brenton Jamie Kippenberger grandson of Captain E. T Kippenberger great nephew of Major-General Sir Howard Kippenberger is the bass guitarist of the New Zealand band Shihad. Kippenberger Grew up...

42. Che Fu (1974)

New Zealand Musician

Che Fu MNZM is a New Zealand Hip hop/R&B and Reggae recording artist and producer. Originally one part of the band Supergroove as a solo artist he has gone on...

43. Blackstratblues (1979)

New Zealand Musician

Blackstratblues is a solo project of Warren Mendonsa who is a guitarist composer and record producer. He is the nephew of Indian musician and celebrated Bollywood composer Loy Mendonsa of...

44. Rosita Vai (1981)

New Zealand Musician

Rosita Vai is a New Zealand R&B singer who rose to musical fame as the winner of the second season of New Zealand Idol in 2005. Prior to her win...

45. Darren Watson (1966)

New Zealand Musician

Darren Watson is a New Zealand singer songwriter and guitarist in a wide range of blues styles. Darren Watson was born in Wanganui. His first musical experience was playing drums...