Dallas Tamaira
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Dallas Tamaira
| image = Joe Dukie.JPG
| caption = Tamaira in 2013
| birth_name = Dallas Tamaira
| alias = Joe Dukie
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|06|03|df=y}}
| birth_place = Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
| origin = Kaikōura, Canterbury, New Zealand
| genre = {{Hlist|Dub|jazz|reggae|roots|rhythm and blues|jam|techno|funk}}
| years_active = 1993-present
| label = {{Hlist|The Drop|Sony|Sonar Kollektiv}}
| current_member_of = Fat Freddy's Drop
| past_member_of = {{Hlist|Pacific Underground|Bongmaster}}
}}
Dallas Tamaira, occasionally known by the alias Joe Dukie (Ngāti Tūwharetoa; born 03 June 1974),{{Cite web |title=DALLAS TAMAIRA |url=https://sonymusicconz-au.paas-p.smehost.net/artist/dallas-tamaira/ |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=Sony Music New Zealand |language=en-US}} is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician, best known for being the vocalist for the urban pasifika and dub group Fat Freddy's Drop. A multi-instrumentalist, he mainly plays guitar and keyboard, and is noted for his "handsome, pure tenor" voice.{{Cite web |date=2023-09-10 |title=Fat Freddy’s Drop frontman's new solo project |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/fat-freddys-drop-frontman-dallas-tamaira-opens-up-on-new-solo-project/EOUELKCUY5CXVNPVSW5LT4OS34/ |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=The New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ}} Tamaira is credited with helping bring New Zealand reggae to worldwide prominence.{{Cite web |date=2022-12-22 |title=Essential NZ Albums: Fat Freddy’s Drop - Based On a True Story |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/essentialnzalbums/audio/2018872240/essential-nz-albums-fat-freddy-s-drop-based-on-a-true-story |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=RNZ |language=en-nz}}
Early life
Tamaira was born in Christchurch in 1974 to a mixed Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Pākehā family, and grew up in Kaikōura. Upon leaving secondary school, Tamaira joined the Auckland performing arts collective Pacific Underground, before moving to Wellington in the early 1990s.
Career
Tamaira formed the music duo Bongmaster with Chris Faiumu, with whom he formed Fat Freddy's Drop in 1999.{{Cite web |title=DALLAS TAMAIRA |url=https://sonymusicconz-au.paas-p.smehost.net/artist/dallas-tamaira/ |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=Sony Music New Zealand |language=en-US}} The band self-released their breakthrough debut album, Based on a True Story, in 2005. Tamaira was awarded Best Vocalist at the bNet NZ Music Awards the same year. He made the comic strip on the cover and sleeve of Fat Freddy's Drop's EP Hope for a Generation (2004).{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/tamaira_dallas.htm|title = Dallas Tamaira}}
Tamaira has recently released solo work with producer Devin Abrams.{{Cite web |title=DALLAS TAMAIRA |url=https://sonymusicconz-au.paas-p.smehost.net/artist/dallas-tamaira/ |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=Sony Music New Zealand |language=en-US}}
Discography
= Solo (under the name "Dallas") =
- Better Than Change EP[http://www.amplifier.co.nz/artist/2163/dallas.html?full=1 Reviews extracts at Amplifier.co.nz] (The Drop, 1999)
- The Garden, on the compilation Styles Upon Styles Part Two (Sugarlicks, 2002)
= With Bongmaster (Dallas, Iain Gordon, Mu, Antsmif) =
- Bongmaster, "Ground My Ego," Loop Select 003 (Loop, 2002)
= With DJ Fitchie =
- ''Seconds" b/w "Grounded" (Especial, 2005)
- This Room [split 12" with Fat Freddy's Drop] (Best Seven, 2003)
- Midnight Marauders b/w dub version (Best Seven, 2002)
- Midnight Marauders b/w "Seconds" (The Drop, 2002)
= With Fat Freddy's Drop =
See Fat Freddy's Drop discography.
= Appearances on other artists' tracks =
- Tubbs, Five Day Night [w/New Chefs Mix and Baloo Mix] (Carbon, 2003)
- Tubbs, Falling (Carbon, 2003)
- Twinset, Sweet Thing (Loop, 2003)
- Markus Enochson, Follow Me (Vinyl Junkies, 2004)
- Del Rey System, Sweet Division (Bounce Records, 2005)
- Bongmaster Inc - Brothers & Sisters (2004)
- Shapeshifter, Long White Cloud (Truetone, 2004)
- Eva Be, No Memory of Time (Best Seven, 2004)
- Clara Hill, Flawless Part Two (Sonar Kollektiv, 2004)
- Tubbs, Five Day Night [w/Fat Freddy's Drop Mix and Baloo Mix] (Exceptional, 2005)
- Boozoo Bajou, Take It Slow (Studio !K7, 2005)
- Dutch Rhythm Combo, Venom (Pulver, 2005)
- Recloose, Dust (Peacefrog Records, 2005)
- Recloose, Time Is on Your Side (Peacefrog Records, 2005)
- The Nextmen, Did No Wrong (Antidote Records, 2007)
- The Nextmen, The Drop (Antidote Records, 2007)
- Recloose, Deeper Waters (Peacefrog Records, 2008)
- Pacific Heights, Peace (TruTone, 2008)
- Jazzanova, What Do You Want ?, (Sonar Kollektiv, 2008)
- The Bamboos, "Venom"
- Shapeshifter, "My Way", "Long White Cloud"
- Julien Dyne, "Resolution" (Soundway Records, 2021)
- The Upbeats, "Beams" (Vision Records, 2021)
Personal life
Tamaira's alternative stage name is inspired from his father Joe, also a singer, and his grandfather, a musician nicknamed Dukie after Duke Ellington.{{cite web |author=Kara, Scott |date=27 May 2009 |title=Fat Freddy's Drop - Dr Boondigga & The Big BW |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/music-reviews/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501982&objectid=10574878 |accessdate=26 September 2011 |work=The New Zealand Herald}} Tamaira is Māori.{{Cite web |title=Dallas Tamaira |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/tamaira_dallas.htm}}
He has stated that style is influenced by Bill Withers.{{Cite web |date=2023-09-10 |title=Fat Freddy’s Drop frontman's new solo project |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/fat-freddys-drop-frontman-dallas-tamaira-opens-up-on-new-solo-project/EOUELKCUY5CXVNPVSW5LT4OS34/ |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=The New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ}}
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Fat Freddy's Drop}}
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External links
- [https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/tamaira_dallas.htm Lambiek Comiclopedia article.]
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Category:21st-century New Zealand male singers
Category:New Zealand Māori male singers
Category:New Zealand comics artists
Category:New Zealand album-cover and concert-poster artists