Celebrate NZ Music Month this May! Introducing the music of Diaz Grimm, a HipHop artist based in Auckland.
Māui & the Sin is a two-disc audio/visual album, the third in a series of seven
albums. Act one comes from the future in 2071, features upcoming NZ artists,
and is a bold statement of what Diaz believes to be the future of Aotearoa
music. Act two of Māui & the Sin represents the past and is set in 1771, taking
inspiration from Diaz’s childhood influences, nature, and Te Ao Māori.
Diaz Grimm (Ngāwhā, Ngāpuhi) is a pioneer at the crossroads of music and
technology. In his latest project he steps out as the world’s first avatar rapper,
creating from the perspective of a musician standing with one foot deeply
entrenched in the rich, ancient world of Māoritanga, and the other in a
futuristic metaverse.
