Sons Of Zion
About Sons Of Zion from Auckland
With their fusion of reggae, heavy rock, dub and funk, the Sons of Zion are a six piece crew based in Auckland. Their live stage presence has captivated audiences all over the country with their infectious sound, a mixture of reggae groove with melodic vocals, phat dubb bass lines and heavily distorted guitar rifts…there’s something for every musical taste within their original set.
Since their 2007 New Zealand Music Month debut, the Sons Of Zion have continued to build momentum in the NZ music industry and have stamped their unique sound locally at festivals such as Parachute, Native Noise Waitangi Day, Maoriside Tour and the 2008 V8 Super Cars just to name a few.
Although the group are fairly new on the roots scene they’ve already been scouted out to share the stage with some of the country’s best loved roots acts including KORA, KATCHAFIRE, THE BLACKSEEDS, CORNERSTONE ROOTS, OPENSOULS and HOUSE OF SHEM.
SOZ have independently produced all of their own original music in the garage of one of the bands members, Sam Eriwata, and released their debut self titled EP in Feb 2008. Sons of Zion were the winners of the 2007 Soundsplash Band competition choosing to launch the EP at the event. Sons fo Zion are currently working on their debut album to be released in October 2009, and released the first single off the album "With You" in Feb 09.
The Sons of Zion are:
SAMUEL ERIWATA - Percussion, Vocals
RIO PANAPA - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
JOEL LATIMER - Keys
MARIKA HODGSON - Lead Guitar
DYLAN STEWART - Bass Guitar
TAWHIRI LITTLEJOHN – Drums
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on the 9 th of december 2011 loove yaaah guuy all the best and contact eathan and tell hiim too tell me waat youur answer iis
heey umm are you guuys relaated to ethan and samaria hahahah lol i was wondering if you guys caan coome plaay at our school randwick park lollllllll i wiish you guyss are maad as !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ohh an plus if you see them tell them maata saiid HIHIHIHIHIHIHI and ieet would bee great and you guuys are flipppppppppppppn auuuuuuuusm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...........
Mean boys! Can't wait for your album to come out on the 12th!!