Anonymouz
About Anonymouz from Auckland
Matthew Salapu Faiumu, aka ‘Anonymouz’ is a multi-talented accomplished musician, who has been widely involved in the NZ music industry.
He received formal training through private Royal Schools of Music tuition from the age of seven through to a grade 7 in classical piano and theory in 1998, along the way competing in, and placing well in various classical competitions across Auckland.
As well as a top academic student at Auckland Grammar School, he won the ‘composition’ section of its’ prestigious ‘Ministers Plate’ music competition in 1998. The same year, he played bass for school heavy metal band ‘Late Harvest,’ who went on to win the Auckland regional finals of the Smokefree Rockquest, gaining high praise from judge Shona Laing.
Second placings at the ‘Manukau Youth Centre’ and ‘Mai FM’ talent quests in which he entered as a producer/rapper preceded his appointment in 1999 at the Otara Music & Arts Centre as a piano tutor, a position he held for the next 5 years. During this time he also tutored in music theory, music composition, DJ basics and Hip Hop music.
The Centre also appointed him as Musical Director for their showcase at the Nelson Arts Festival in 2001. The year 2000 saw him programming and producing for various projects from hip hop group ‘Chapter,’ to scoring and composing theatre soundtracks and backing tracks for Nathan Homestead Performing Arts. 2001 and subsequent years saw regular performances with different groups at various Auckland events, including the Fresh Fest, Pasifika and Coke SouthSide gigs.
During this time, he also played piano for many corporate, official Manukau City Council functions. He was keyboardist for Otara group ‘Cydel and the Groovehouse’ from 2002 – 2004, as well as an unaccredited session musician/producer on Ermehns 2005 ‘Path of Blood’ album.
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