NZ Music Monday: Broods & Jamie McDell
Posted on Monday, 18 May 2015
Broods are the next big thing to come out of little old New Zealand. The brother/sister duo hail from Nelson and have been in the charts since the beginning of last year. Georgia and Caleb come from a very musical family, they all used to be in an ABBA tribute band, and in 2011 their band The Peasants won the Smokefreerockquest competition but split up soon after.
The pair dropped out of university to pursue Broods in early 2013 and have since collaborated with NZ producer Joel Little (who produced Lorde's smash hit 'Royals'), signed with Capitol Records worldwide and Polydor in the UK, released their debut album 'Evergreen' which went to number 1 in NZ and won them an NZ Music Award, and now they're set to take America by storm. They were on Conan in march, have been featured a few times on MTV's Catfish, and Taylor Swift, Ellie Goulding, Chloe Moretz and Este Haim are all fans.
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Jamie McDell is a 22 year old singer/songwriter from Auckland and New Zealand's answer to Taylor Swift. She used social media to get herself out there before she sent an acoustic demo tape to EMI at 16, shortly after she was signed to the label. At the start of 2012 Jamie released her debut single 'You'll Never Take That Away' which was certified gold in NZ and led her to release her acoustic EP 'All That I Wanted' which was then followed by her debut album 'Six Strings and a Sailboat' at the end of the year. Jamie's second album 'Ask Me Anything' was released 2 months ago and she also had the opportunity to open for ex Disney star Demi Lovato last month.
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