In February 2024, as part of an annual music series, five Tāmaki artists were invited to the basement of the Central City Library, a place of archive, to enact a living archive, through story and song. This is the third year of the Ka Mua Ka Muri te Iho Auaha, the perspective of artistry and talent from the Tāmaki underground continues.
One of the youngest artists to come through the Ka Mua Ka Muri platform, En Passant is a 16-year-old from Manurewa High School, whose talent was initially spotted through Tāmaki secondary schools music competition “Stand Up Stand Out”
A prodigious talent equally adept as a pianist and as a lyricist, his sound spans classical, jazz to hip hop. Expect much more from this unique self-taught talent from the South.