It was a voice and a face that went around the world. As Sister Zina, Sina provided the insanely catchy vocal hook that that helmed the chorus of OMC’s 1997 US No.1 ‘How Bizarre’ and its follow up, ‘Right On’. But, despite the offers that followed, she walked away.
Sina Saipaia grew up in Otara, South Auckland, and first started singing in her family church, initially in prayer sessions but she soon graduated to the church choir and solo spots. Around the age of 14 she met another local Otara teenager, Pauly Fuemana, and through him was introduced to the new Otara Musical Arts Centre (OMAC), where Pauly’s older brother, Phillip Fuemana, was working towards establishing a creative home for the many young Otara musicians.
It was Sina's "Oh baby, you're making me crazy" that US radio pluggers played to radio programmers in the US in 1997 to clinch playlist adds for OMC's No.1 smash 'How Bizarre'.