MC TREY is a Fijian-Australian rapper, vocalist and hip-hop activist. She is also an Urban Music, 3D and Jack Awards nominee and a member of an ARIA nominated band.
Over the past 13 years, trey has established herself as an artist within hip-hop and urban music in Australia. Her style offers a serve of positive, melodic & insightful rhymes and rhythms ‘bout life, love & her experiences.
Lyric-writing began in primary school, while listening to reggae, island music and what ever was on the radio. She was introduced to hip-hop through movies like 'Krush Groove' and music videos by 'Rock Steady Crew', but wasn't propelled to rap her own words over beats until the early 90's. Her Fijian heritage and father's gospel singing helped inspire & mould Trey's musical abilities. This is manifested through her melodic delivery of rhyme and song and her insightful story-telling abilities.
Her most recent project was a collaboration with Maya Jupiter (Channel V) and DJ Nick Toth as hip-hop trio, Foreign Heights. The second single off the ‘Foreign Heights’ (Grindin’) album, ‘Get Yours’ earned them an ARIA nomination in 2007. The album featured well know hip-hop artists, Mystro (UK), Eternia (Canada), with production by Pmoney (NZ), Mr. Zux, Kut Master Kurt (USA), and more.
Trey has performed for crowds around Australia, NZ, the US, UK & Japan and is currently working on her solo album, due for release in 2009. This album will feature Indigenous artists from all regions of the earth.
HIGHLIGHT SHOWs INCLUDE: FIJI DAY FESTIVAL, (Syd ’08), SPIRIT FESTIVAL (Syd ‘08), PLATFORM 1 HIP-HOP FESTIVAL (Syd ’08), SLUM VILLAGE (Syd ‘07), BIG DAY OUT (Syd, Melb, G.Coast) ‘07, ‘02 ‘01 ‘00 LUPE FIASCO (Syd,Melb) ‘07, COMMON (Syd, Melb) ‘06, FIJI YOUTH DAY (Syd) ) ‘05 & ’06, PYRAMID ROCK festival (Vic) ‘05 & ‘06, PASIFIKA festival (Syd) ‘05 & ‘06, MULTICULTURAL festival(Canberra) ‘05, PACIFIC UNITY festival (Syd) ‘05, SYDNEY WRITERS festival (Syd) ‘05, BIG DAY OUT NZ/OZ tour ‘04, PASIFIKA festival (NZ) ‘04, The BASEMENT (Syd) '03, XZIBIT (Syd) '03, HOMEBAKE (Syd) '01, NEWTOWN festival (Syd)'01, LIKS show (Melb), VIBES (Perth, Syd)'01, '00, WAITANGI festival (Syd) '00, ST.KILDA festival (Melb) '00.
Off mic, Trey is a youth arts worker, who has been facilitating hip-hop music workshops for young people around Australia for over10 years. Her work in this area was awarded a Vodafone Australia Foundation, World of Difference grant, enabling her to co-ordinate music programs for at-risk and disadvantaged young people at Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) in Western Sydney. These programs aim to further-develop participant’s writing, communication and performance skills and encourage young people to tell their stories through hip-hop music.
TREY has previously released two albums, 'Tapastry Tunes' (Shock Records/ Tapastry Toons, 2003) with production by Australian producers, Danielsan (Koolism), DJ Bonez and UK producer, Spider Johnson, receiving rave reviews from media & listeners all over the country.
… 'potentially the biggest leap forward for Australian hip-hop, Tapastry Toons covers a lot of ground & does so with style'...Metro/ SMH
‘Daily Affirmations’ (Mother Tongues/ Tapastry Toons, 2000) featured production by Danielsan, Polarity and MCs Aceyalone and Pumpkinhead.
Following the release of 'Tapastry Toons', Trey completed a successful Triple J presented East Coast tour, climaxing with a sold out headline show at The Basement (Syd) & ‘Live at the Wireless’ recording on Triple J and graced the 2004 Big Day Out Tour performing in Auckland, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth & Adelaide.
Trey n Fatt Dexx's single, Creepin' received wide spread acclaim for a track that broke the mould of traditional dance/rap tracks delivering a fresh sound and unique rhyme style on high rotation on Triple J. The video hit the top 5 most requested videos on MTV.
Trey has supported and performed onstage alongside Hip-Hop heavy-weights such as: LUPE FIASCO, COMMON, RZA, XZIBIT, JURASSIC5, THE FUGEES, NAUGHTY BY NATURE, RUN DMC, MICHAEL FRANTI,THE ROOTS, BLACKSTAR, BLACKALICIOUS, COMPANY FLOW, CHE-FU, KING KAPISI, SCRIBE AS WELL AS DJS ROC RAIDIA, CASH MONEY, SHADOW & Q-BERT.
…nominated for best female performer at the 2004 Jack Awards…
Trey is currently working on a solo album, due for release late 2009.
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