Christchurch-born, Deans has creativity in her blood – her grandfather is painter Austen Deans, and her father Paul is a sculptor. At age 15 she was given a guitar, and a book on how to play it, and she taught herself the instrument. A move to Wellington in the 1990s to attend jazz school didn’t last long before she joined bands such as Banshee Reel and Fur Patrol. The latter coalesced to become one of New Zealand’s most well-known bands of the early 2000s.
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