Bic Runga


Bic Runga is one of New Zealand’s most lauded artists, a singer-songwriter with a natural flair for words and melody, and a voice that defies age or current musical fashions.

With her four studio albums of singer-songwriter pop, Runga has straddled the line between auteur and commercially successful pop star well. She is part of New Zealand’s music establishment, one of our highest-selling artists, and her incarnation as part of the alt-pop/indie Opossom has added a new string to her bow.

Sweeties - Let’s Just Stay in Bed (2020)
King Sweeties - Lydia
Bic Runga with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, 2003
Photo credit: Photo by Mark Roach
Bic Runga with the New Zealand music award for International Achievement, 1999
King Sweeties - Tonight We Could Go Out Dancing (As If It's The Last), 2020
Tim Finn, Bic Runga, Dave Dobbyn, Winery Tour 2010
Bic Runga 2020 tour poster.
Photo credit: Publicity image
Bic and Boh Runga at the 2000 New Zealand Music Awards. Bic has the International Achievement award and Boh has Best Female vocalist.
Opossom, King Sweeties poster, 2020.
Winning Arrow
Drive
The Finn, Runga and Dobbyn tour, 2000
Photo credit: Photo by Mark Roach
Suddenly Strange
Bic Runga Drive 20th anniversary tour.
Eddie Rayner and Bic Runga at the 1999 NZ Music Awards
Bic Runga - Tiny Little Piece Of My Heart (2012)
Bic Live at Bush Hall, London 2006
Photo credit: Photo by Ross Halfin
Homegrown Profiles: Bic Runga (2005)
Bic Runga, Finn, Runga and Dobbyn tour, 2000
Photo credit: Photo by Mark Roach
Bic Runga
Bic Live at Bush Hall, London 2006
Photo credit: Photo by Ross Halfin
Sheet music from the 2003 concert at Christchurch Town Hall with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra
Photo credit: Photo by Mark Roach
Bic Runga with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, 2003
Photo credit: Photo by Mark Roach
The front of house view of Bic Runga with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, 2003
Photo credit: Photo by Mark Roach
Bic Runga celebrates the 20th anniversary of her debut album Drive - with Wallace Chapman for RNZ Sunday Mornings, 17 September 2017
Dave Dobbyn, Bic Runga and Tim Finn on the Finn, Runga and Dobbyn tour, 2000
Photo credit: Photo by Mark Roach
From the APRA archives - Bic Runga with the award for Most Performed Work in 1997 (Sway), standing with Bill Sevesi.
Bic Runga and Dave Dobbyn, Finn, Runga and Dobbyn tour, 2000
Photo credit: Photo by Mark Roach
Something Good
Hello Hello (the Music Sessions)
Dave Dobbyn, Bic Runga, Tim Finn - Summer Winery Tour 2010
Tim Finn, Bic Runga and Dave Dobbyn, on their nationwide Finn, Runga and Dobbyn tour, 2000
Photo credit: Photo by Mark Roach
Bic Runga performing 'Drive' live @ RNZ, September 2017 - sound by Andre Upston
Median Strip, June 2002
Hello Hello
Dave Dobbyn, Bic Runga and Tim Finn on tour, 2000
Photo credit: Photo by Mark Roach
Bursting Through
King Sweeties - Let's Just Stay In Bed
Bic Runga with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, 2003r
Photo credit: Photo by Mark Roach
Bic Runga, Tim Finn and Dave Dobbyn rehearsing for the 2010 Winery Tour
Bic Runga, pre-solo career in Christchurch duo Love Soup (with Kelly Horgan) - You
Bic Runga with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, 2003
Photo credit: Photo by Mark Roach
If You Really Do
Bic Runga, Finn, Runga and Dobbyn tour, 2000
Photo credit: Photo by Mark Roach
Bic standing for photos after the 1999 NZ Music Awards where she took out International Achievement
Publicity shot for the 2000 Finn, Runga and Dobbyn tour
Bic Runga and conductor Marc Taddei, with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, 2003
Photo credit: Photo by Mark Roach
Listening For The Weather
Sway
Bic talks to the press at the 1999 RIANZ Awards after winning the award for International Achievement
Bic Runga, 2010 Winery Tour.
Photo credit: Nick Chappell
King Sweeties - Lydia (2020)
Bic Runga and Tim Finn, Finn, Runga and Dobbyn tour, 2000
Photo credit: Photo by Mark Roach
Bic Runga - Get Some Sleep (2002)
King Sweeties - Tonight We Could Go Out Dancing
Bic Runga was inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame in 2016. The Hall of Fame is an initiative of Recorded Music NZ and the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), whose support of AudioCulture enables the site to stream music content.
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