Adeaze


Adeaze broke out in 2004 with their debut album Always & For Real, a No.1 smash in New Zealand released on local hip-hop and R&B label Dawn Raid Entertainment. The record featured two huge singles – ‘A Life With You’, which was later sampled by Mariah Carey, and ‘Getting Stronger’, a song that quickly rose to the top of the charts thanks to an unforgettable hook from Aaradhna. Adeaze have gone on to release two more albums, the most recent of which was inspired by their biggest fan: their mum.

Born in Hamilton in 1980 and 1981, Adeaze are the brothers Feagaigafou Nainz Tupa'i and Logovi'i Viiz Tupa'i: Nainz and Viiz. They grew up close to their parents, especially their mother Selepa, who contracted polio at age three in Samoa when a fishing spear went through her leg. It wasn’t until she had lived in New Zealand for eight or nine years that she even got access to a wheelchair. “I remember Mum physically crawling around the house to wake us, cook for us and do all of the sorts of things that a normal mum would do,” Nainz told Stuff in 2018. “She never let her disability get in the way.”

Adeaze at the Pacific Music Awards, 2019.
Adeaze with a portrait of their mother Selepa, at a concert for mothers, just prior to the release of the album A Mother's Love, 2018.
Photo credit: Robert George
First episode of TVNZ Pasifika youth show Fresh, presented by brothers Nainz and Viiz Tupai, aka Adeaze (2011)
Rise & Shine - album released by Adeaze in 2011.
Adeaze ft Aaradhna - Getting Stronger (2004)
Adeaze and Tone 6 arriving at the 2019 Pacific Music Awards.
Adeaze - You Make Me Smile (live on RNZ, 10 May 2018)
Adeaze photographed at the Pacific Music Awards 2012: Viiz, left, and Nainz Tupa'i. The duo won three awards: best Pacific group, best Pacific urban artist for their album 'Rise & Shine' , and best Pacific song for 'Paradise'.
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Viiz Tupa'i of Adeaze at the Pacific Music Awards, 2019.
Adeaze at the Pacific Music Awards, 2019. 
Viiz and Nainz Tupa'i: Adeaze at the 2012 Pacific Music Awards, with one of their three awards.
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Adeaze - Nainz, left, and Viiz Tupa'i - at the Pacific Music Awards, 2012.
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Adeaze at the Parachute Festival, 2012.
Photo credit: Gareth Shute
Adeaze in a publicity photo: Nainz and Viiz Tupa'i. 
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Nainz Tupa'i of Adeaze at the Pacific Music Awards, 2019.
Viiz and Nainz Tupa'i - Adeaze - at the Pacific Music Awards 2005, where they won the Radio 531PI award for best Pacific group. 
Adeaze - A Life With You (2004)
Nainz and Viiz Tupa'i of Adeaze, with their family at the 2019 Pacific Music Awards.
Adeaze at a special concert for mothers, just prior to the release of the album A Mother's Love, 2018. 'You Make Me Smile', the album's first single, was filmed during the evening.
Photo credit: Robert George
Viiz and Nainz Tupa'i - Adeaze - at the Pacific Music Awards, 2005.
Nainz and Viiz Tupa'i - Adeaze - at the 2019 Pacific Music Awards.
Adeaze at the launch of A Mother's Love, 2018.
Photo credit: Robert George
Adeaze downstairs at the Civic / Wintergarden, Auckland.
Photo credit: Gareth Shute
Adeaze - Viiz and Nainz Tupa'i - at a special concert for mothers, just prior to the release of A Mother's Love, 2018.
Photo credit: Robert George
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