Over the past 12 years, TREY has established herself as a prominent artist within hip-hop & urban music in Australia. Her unique style offers a fresh serve of positive, melodic & insightful rhymes & rhythms bout life, love & her experiences. Her Fijian heritage and father's gospel singing helped inspire & mould Trey's musical abilities. She began writing lyrics in primary school, while listening to reggae, island music and what ever was on the radio
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Over the past 12 years, TREY has established herself as a prominent artist within hip-hop & urban music in Australia. Her unique style offers a fresh serve of positive, melodic & insightful rhymes & rhythms bout life, love & her experiences. Her Fijian heritage and father's gospel singing helped inspire & mould Trey's musical abilities. She began writing lyrics in primary school, while listening to reggae, island music and what ever was on the radio, and was introduced to hip-hop through movies like 'Krush Groove' and music videos by 'Rock Steady Crew', but wasn't propelled to rap her own words over beats until the early 90's. Trey has entertained crowds around Australia, NZ, the US, UK & Japan. TREY's album, 'Tapastry Tunes' (Shock Records) boasts production by Australian producers, Danielsan (Koolism), DJ Bonez and UK producer, Spider Johnson, receiving rave reviews from media & listeners all over the country. Following the release of 'Tapastry Toons', Trey completed a successful Triple J presented East Coast tour, climaxing with a sold out headline show at The Basement (Syd) & Live at the Wireless recording on Triple J. She also rocked the stages of the 2004 Big Day Out Tour performing in Auckland, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth & Adelaide. Trey has supported and performed onstage alongside Hip-Hop heavy-weights such as: LUPE FIASCO, COMMON, RZA, XZIBIT, JURASSIC5,THE FUGEES, THE LIKS, NAUGHTY BY NATURE, THE LIKS, RUN DMC, MICHAEL FRANTI,THE ROOTS, BLACKSTAR, COMMON, BLACKALICIOUS, COMPANY FLOW, CHE-FU, KING KAPISI,SCRIBE AS WELL AS DJS ROC RAIDIA, CASH MONEY, SHADOW & Q-BERT. TREY releases: Creepin' CD/vinyl single (tv1/sony music) w/Fatt Dex: '01, Daily Affirmations CD (tapastry tunes/mother tongues): '00, Universal Soldier 12" (tapastry tunes/mother tongues): '99, Projectiles US tour tape (tapastry toons): '98, Projectiles demo CD & Tape (tapastry toons) w/DJ Bonez:'96/97 TREY alos runs hip-hop music workshops for at-risk young people. The FOREIGN HEIGHTS album with Maya Jupiter and DJ Nick Toth is available now thru GRINDIN'/MRA distribution.... Chek it!!!!!!!!
