Music News - Young Kiwis get chance to score AUD$100k NESCAFÉ Big Break
13 March 2006 - 0 Comments
NESCAFÉ Big Break launches today, giving young Kiwis the chance to win a top award of AUD$100,000 to kick-start their big ambition.
With a total prize pool of more than AUD$200,000, NESCAFÉ Big Break will see 16-24 year olds from New Zealand and across the ditch competing for cash awards starting from AUD$4,000.
Kiwi musician Renée-Louise Caraficé knows well the benefits NESCAFÉ Big Break can provide and her dream of recording an album to help improve people’s understanding of mental illness has become a reality since her AUD$25,000 win in 2005.
“NESCAFÉ Big Break has been an absolute dream come true! I recently recorded my debut album at Electrical Audio in Chicago which is owned by Steve Albini. He is an amazing man who has produced work by Nirvana and PJ Harvey and it was such an experience to work in his studio,” she says.
More than 4,400 young people from across New Zealand and Australia entered NESCAFÉ Big Break in 2005 with four Kiwis taking away cash awards totalling AUD$60,000.
Like Renée-Louise, composer and playwright Rochelle Bright also won AUD$25,000 in the 2005 programme. This allowed her to spend the past seven months studying graduate musical theatre writing at the prestigious Tisch School of Arts in New York.
Corban Walls invested his AUD$5,000 prize into a portable skate park business and launched his innovative product at the Parachute Music Festival in January.
Also a AUD$5,000 NESCAFÉ Big Break winner, Ben Griffin’s big ambition is to win gold at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Ben used his cash injection to continue training during the Northern Hemisphere ski season ensuring he recently scored a gold medal in the Mars Apex Grand Prix in Canada.
Renée-Louise says it is important for ambitious young New Zealanders to have the financial support necessary to make it big in New Zealand and overseas.
“It’s so cool to see Kiwis pushing the boundaries and doing exciting things and this year the sky is truly the limit with the NESCAFÉ Big Break grand prize of AUD$100,000.”
Anyone aged 16-24 with a big idea in need of a cash injection to get it off the ground is eligible for entry.
Since launching in New Zealand in 2000, NESCAFÉ Big Break has awarded in excess of AUD$250,000 to more than 20 young Kiwis in diverse areas such as technology, sport, fashion and agriculture.
Entries close Friday, May 5 2006 and must be completed and submitted online at www.nescafebigbreak.co.nz
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