Pauly Fuemana

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Paul Lawrence Fuemana (8 February 1969 – 31 January 2010) was a New Zealand singer, songwriter and musician from Auckland. One of the first globally successful pioneers of his country's unique style of hip-hop, Fuemana was one of New Zealand's greatest popular music icons of the 1990s. Born in Ōtara, South Auckland, to a Niuean father and a Māori mother, Fuemana gravitated towards making music with his brothers due to his poverty-stricken childhood. Speaking Niuean as his first language, his music with OMC often reflected Polynesian themes. Leading the rap trio and then joint music project, the Otara Millionaires Club (abbreviated to OMC) his debut studio album How Bizarre (1996) and its eponymous lead single became a huge success across the world. The name OMC was ironic, as Ōtara was one of the poorest communities in New Zealand. Along with his brother Phil Fuemana, Pauly cultivated the unique South Auckland musical genre of Urban Pasifika, bringing it to worldwide commercial and critical...

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