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1 History

Scribe was born of Pacific Islander descent in Christchurch. He grew up as a fan of rap music from a youngster with NWA as his first influence. He spent his youth developing his rapping skills with local rap group Beats n' Peaces and Polynesian theatre company Pacific Underground .

He became more widely known throughout New Zealand with his guest appearance on P-Money's Big Things album. Scribe recorded his debut album Crusader in 2003 and it was released in New Zealand in October 2003 by dirty records with distribution through Festival Mushroom Records . The album went gold within hours and platinum within days. It has so far sold 65,000 copies in New Zealand which is quadruple platinum status in that country. The album has also had several highly successful singles released off the album in New Zealand including:

• "Stand Up" which spent 12 weeks as number one, a record for a New Zealand artist in 2003;

• "Not Many" which reached number 2 on the charts and has also made the Australia ARIA singles charts in May 2004;

• "Dreaming" which was another number single in 2004.

Crusader was released in Australia in January 2004 and reached the top 20 of the urban music album charts for that country during the early part of that year.

2 Discography

• Crusader (2003)

3 Links

• Scribe home page
• Festival Music Records New Zealand artist page
• NZ Music bio
• New Zealand Herald Crusader review