Music News - Sonatane - video for 'Birdie' out today
26 January 2018 - 0 Comments
Manurewa
High School student Sonatane
Kaufusi has followed up the release of his debut single,
Birdie with a video
made by
Imaginary Friends.
Watch the video for
Birdie HERE
The young Aucklander won the solo category in the 2017 Smokefreerockquest and
took second place in the Smokefree
Pacifica Beats competition with his band
Blessed.
Birdie is a breezy, uplifting tune about “coping with stress and admiring the freedom
that birds have” - a sentiment that’s reflected in the quirky and fun video,
featuring some familiar Auckland beach scenes that accompany it.
Sonatane’s
association with the Smokefree competitions began when he was in Year 9 and saw
then fellow Manurewa High School pupil, Cam Dawson, make the national finals in
2014. Sonatane went
on to enter SFPB and SFRQ, reaching the finals several years running, before
taking the big prize in 2017.
As well as excelling in music, Sonataneis a talented athlete. He was selected for the Chiefs Ruby Development squad in
2016 and placed sixth in New Zealand for the Senior Boys Hammer throw at the
New Zealand Secondary Schools Senior Boys National final in 2017.
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