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.”