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Melanie Huata-Lucas

Composer, Māori Composer

Born: 1988 Website  

Biography

Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngai Tūhoe and Kai Tahu. Also Spanish, Irish and German descent.

MISTEE K, is a New Zealand underground R&B, Hip hop artist who is emerging onto the music scene fast, yet has been doing it for over a decade. In 2010 Mistee K debut her original composition ‘Pick me up’ at the Waiata Maori Music Awards performing alongside other established New Zealand musicians- she has performed in many places that some would only dream to have endured as an independent artist.Performing in New York, Los Angeles and Hawaii, the streets of Paris, France and Anzac Cove in Gallipoli, Turkey just to name a few.

Mistee K has used her music to get her through difficult times and healing. Her motivation is to express to others who have struggled to be heard or fit in that there is always a light at the end of every dark tunnel you just have to be brave enough to take that step and believe you can achieve anything you put your mind to.

Joining the Royal New Zealand Navy in 2006 based in Devonport, Auckland she was able to continue with her passion as a singer supported by her navy whanau (family), and was soon labelled “the sailor by day-singer by night” in the Hawkes Bay Today news paper. Defeating all odds Mistee K set out in her career in the navy, sailed the sea lanes and took her experience as an opportunity to write, sing and compile songs for her then forth coming albums ‘ALL IN GOOD TIME” 2012 and “THE COLOURS THROUGH BLACK & WHITE” 2014.

Weekends were filled with music, gigging and networking and on her days off as a watch keeper she would be recording or with family back home in the “06”. After 6 years in uniform she decided to change scenery diving into her culture and was employed to work a hop and a skip out of the naval base gates at the Navy Marae (Te Taua Moana o Aotearoa) as the Marae Events and Protocol Manager. In her position here is where she grew as an artist and a person. She has broken barriers in the music scene and the defence force in carrying out a successful career both in her passion of music and culture within the organisation in which she represents as the first woman to mau moko Kauae (Maori chin tattoo) in the space of the Royal New Zealand Navy. And now embarking on a new haerenga as the Māori Culture and Identity Programme Lead for Te Kaunihere o Tāmaki Makaurau.

Her album 'THE NEXT CHAPTER' released in August 2020 depicts the growth as a mother, mana wahine and an inspiration to all independent singer/songwriters and has been nominated in not 1 but 2 catergories for the 14th Waiata Maori Music Awards 2021 'Best R&B Album by a Maori artist' and 'Best Female Solo Artist'.

Mistee K has now completed 5 albums independently without the support of a record label or financial support and has instead utilised the power of social media and word of mouth to amplify her audience. Taking a break from her loyal listeners and supporters for 6 years to focus on her whanau has influenced her vision to return back to the music industry and she is ready to hit the music scene in full force more now than ever before. Her latest album MELZ VS MISTEE K was released on all digital platforms September 2021.

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Composed (70)

6AM

R&B, with LISSY, 4m 43s


Aint That Right

R&B, 3m 38s


All Good In Time

R&B, 3m 50s


All I Do

R&B, 3m 26s


Back In The Day

R&B, 3m 42s


Back In Time

R&B, 3m 22s


Be Mine

R&B


Be Your Lady

R&B, 3m 1s


Beat of my Bones

R&B, 4m 12s


Better Dayz

R&B, with Rival, 3m 35s


Can't Hold Me Down

R&B, 4m 6s


Chewy

R&B, 2m 29s


Childhood

R&B, 3m 5s


City Lights

R&B, 3m 16s


Classy

R&B, 3m 1s


Compliments of You

R&B, 2m 55s


Confidence

Reggae, R&B, 2m 30s


Day After Forever

R&B, 4m 42s


Don't Know Yet

R&B, 3m 52s


Don't Let Go

R&B, with Piri Jessup, 3m 27s


Everything

R&B, 3m 13s


Faded

R&B, 3m 44s


Feel It

R&B, 3m 18s


Gangsta In Me

R&B, 2m 3s


Get It Together

R&B, 3m 22s


Groove Thing

R&B, with Envioso, 4m


Holdin On

R&B, 3m 46s


I Just Wanna

R&B, 4m 20s


If I Was invisible

R&B, 2m 1s


Imagine

R&B, 3m 5s


In His Hands

R&B, with Skeptik, 3m 44s


Journey

R&B, 2m 40s


Ko Koe Taku Ao

Te Reo Māori, R&B, 3m 47s


Like I Do

R&B, 3m 43s


Maybe Sometime

R&B, 3m 31s


Mind Games

R&B, 2m 24s


No Other

R&B, 3m 3s


Passion

R&B, with Wartype, 6m 55s


Play Back

R&B, 4m 12s


Push Back

R&B, 3m 7s


Reciprocate

R&B, 3m 43s


Ride It

R&B, 3m 13s


Ride It To The Next

R&B, 4m 7s


Rise Again

R&B, 2m 30s


Running Deep

R&B, 2m 37s


Smooth

R&B, 3m 1s


So Sexy

R&B, 2m 37s


Temptation

R&B, 2m 13s


That's Us (Intro)

R&B, with Smokestack Lightning, 3m 44s


That's Us (Outro)

R&B, 1m 7s


The Orchid

R&B, 3m 34s


The Warning

R&B, 2m 27s


The Watch

R&B, 2m 10s


Time is moving on

R&B, 3m 51s


Time To Shine

R&B, with Mareko, 3m 42s


Turn the Page

R&B, 3m 11s


Under Cover Lover

R&B, 4m 26s


Up In The Air

R&B, 2m 37s


Wassup

R&B, 2m 54s


What You Got

R&B, 4m 4s


Why?

R&B, 3m 32s


You Make It Right

R&B, 2m 20s