Briolette Kah Bic RungaMNZM (born 13 January 1976 in Christchurch, New Zealand), recording as Bic Runga, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist pop artist. Her first solo album, Drive (1997), debuted at number one on the New Zealand Top 40 Album charts.
Runga has since become one of the highest-selling New Zealand artists in recent history. She has also found success internationally in Australia, Ireland, and, to some extent, in the UK.
Early life
Runga was born in Christchurch. Her mother, Sophia Tang, was a Chinese Malaysian lounge singer in Malaysia when she met Joseph Runga, a Māori. They moved to New Zealand to live.
Runga grew up in Hornby, Christchurch surrounded by a musically-inclined family, and started recording songs with her sisters, Boh and Pearl, when she was four years old. Runga's older sister Boh is now a vocalist in the New Zealand rock group Stellar, while Pearl is a session singer.
She learned how to play drums at the age of eleven, and guitar at about fourteen. Runga also learned to play the keyboard around this time. She attended Cashmere High School, joining high school bands and performing with local jazz groups by her mid-teens.
Beautiful Collision is the second solo album by New Zealand artist Bic Runga, released on 1 July 2002 in New Zealand, 15 July 2002 in Australia, and 5 November 2002 in the United States.
Critical reception
Ken Goldstein of PopMatters gave the album a positive review, as did Emma Phillpott from NZ Musician.
At the 2003 New Zealand Music Awards, Beautiful Collision was nominated for Album of the Year, Best Female Vocalist, Best Solo Artist and Producer of the Year. It lost Album of the Year to The Datsuns' self-titled album, but won the other three categories. At the awards ceremony, it was also announced as the highest-selling New Zealand album for the year of 2003. Additionally, "Get Some Sleep" was nominated for the award for Single of the Year, but was beaten by Goodshirt's song "Sophie".
Chart performance
Beautiful Collison debuted at number one on the New Zealand Albums Chart on 14 July 2002. It spent an additional seven non-consecutive weeks at number one in June and July 2003. Beautiful Collision lasted a total of 101 non-consecutive weeks on the New Zealand Albums Chart; its last appearance was on 11 October 2004. It was ranked as the eighth best-selling album in New Zealand in 2002, and the best-selling album in 2003. Beautiful Collision was certified 11-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand, denoting shipment of 165,000 copies. The album spent one week on the Australian Albums Chart in August 2002, at number forty-one.Beautiful Collision peaked at number fifty-five on the UK Albums Chart, and lasted two weeks on the chart.
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Beautiful Collision · Bic Runga
Beautiful Collision
℗ 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd
Released on: 2002-10-04
Percussion: Jay Foulkes
Drums: Joey Waronker
Bass, Keyboards: Andy Morton
Bass: Alan Gregg
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published: 10 Feb 2017
Bic Runga - Beautiful Collision
published: 18 Jun 2012
Beautiful Collision - Bic Runga - Auckland, 2023
Live at Auckland Town Hall, for the Beautiful Collision 20th anniversary tour. 28 July, 2023. Part of Elemental Nights. More songs in playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYRJJAaoMsKz9iHdeYEz1djm9bfgtZit #bicrunga
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Beautiful Collision (CSO Live Version)
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Beautiful Collision (CSO Live Version) · Bic Runga · The Christchurch Symphony
Live In Concert
℗ 2003 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Limited
Released on: 2003-11-20
Associated Performer: Bic Runga with The Christchurch Symphony
Producer: Andre Upston
Conductor: Marc Taddei
Producer: Emily Johansen
Guitar: Harry Harrison
Bass Guitar: Tom Rainey
Percussion: Craig Given
Drums: Greg Donaldson
Timpani: Mark La Roche
Keyboards: Hamish Oliver
Trumpet: Carl Sakofsky
Trumpet: Cameron Pearce
Trombone: Karl Margevka
Viola: Anatoly Zelinsky
Viola: Izabel Mandache
Viola: Pippa Mills
Cello: Galyna Zelinska
Cello: James Donaldson
Cello: Janet Sim
Harp: Helen Webby
Flute: Tony Ferner
Flute: Margo Askin
Horn: David Cox
Horn: Bernard Shapiro
Horn: Antonio Dimit...
published: 09 Feb 2017
Bic Runga, Sway - Beautiful collision tour July2023
published: 22 Jul 2023
BIc Runga on Tour: Beautiful Collision
On tour with Bic Runga - mini doco.
published: 29 Jul 2022
Listening for the Weather
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Listening for the Weather · Bic Runga
Beautiful Collision
℗ 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd
Released on: 2002-10-04
Vocal: Neil Finn
Vocal: Milan Borich
Electric Guitar: Geoff Maddock
Drums: Joey Waronker
Tambourine: Joy Foulkes
Bass: Sebastian Steinberg
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published: 09 Feb 2017
Bic Runga - Something Good
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published: 06 Jan 2017
Bic Runga - Everything Is Beautiful and New (Short Film)
Music video by Bic Runga performing Everything Is Beautiful And New (Short Film). (C) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment New Zealand Limited
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Beautiful Collision
℗ 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd
Released on: 2002-10-0...
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Beautiful Collision · Bic Runga
Beautiful Collision
℗ 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd
Released on: 2002-10-04
Percussion: Jay Foulkes
Drums: Joey Waronker
Bass, Keyboards: Andy Morton
Bass: Alan Gregg
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Beautiful Collision · Bic Runga
Beautiful Collision
℗ 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd
Released on: 2002-10-04
Percussion: Jay Foulkes
Drums: Joey Waronker
Bass, Keyboards: Andy Morton
Bass: Alan Gregg
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Live at Auckland Town Hall, for the Beautiful Collision 20th anniversary tour. 28 July, 2023. Part of Elemental Nights. More songs in playlist: https://youtube....
Live at Auckland Town Hall, for the Beautiful Collision 20th anniversary tour. 28 July, 2023. Part of Elemental Nights. More songs in playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYRJJAaoMsKz9iHdeYEz1djm9bfgtZit #bicrunga
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All video is recorded and edited by me. All copyright for music and other performance rights remain with the respective owners. Content on this channel's watch pages (non-Short videos) is not monetised by me, in accordance with YouTube's policies. If you see ads on this video, some or all of the content has been claimed by the copyright owners, and any proceeds go to them - as it should! Support your favourite artists and new ones, see live music, go out to shows, buy music and merch, and sing-along when you know the words. :-)
Live at Auckland Town Hall, for the Beautiful Collision 20th anniversary tour. 28 July, 2023. Part of Elemental Nights. More songs in playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYRJJAaoMsKz9iHdeYEz1djm9bfgtZit #bicrunga
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All video is recorded and edited by me. All copyright for music and other performance rights remain with the respective owners. Content on this channel's watch pages (non-Short videos) is not monetised by me, in accordance with YouTube's policies. If you see ads on this video, some or all of the content has been claimed by the copyright owners, and any proceeds go to them - as it should! Support your favourite artists and new ones, see live music, go out to shows, buy music and merch, and sing-along when you know the words. :-)
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Beautiful Collision (CSO Live Version) · Bic Runga · The Christchurch Symphony
Live In Concert
℗ 2003 Sony Music Entertainmen...
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Beautiful Collision (CSO Live Version) · Bic Runga · The Christchurch Symphony
Live In Concert
℗ 2003 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Limited
Released on: 2003-11-20
Associated Performer: Bic Runga with The Christchurch Symphony
Producer: Andre Upston
Conductor: Marc Taddei
Producer: Emily Johansen
Guitar: Harry Harrison
Bass Guitar: Tom Rainey
Percussion: Craig Given
Drums: Greg Donaldson
Timpani: Mark La Roche
Keyboards: Hamish Oliver
Trumpet: Carl Sakofsky
Trumpet: Cameron Pearce
Trombone: Karl Margevka
Viola: Anatoly Zelinsky
Viola: Izabel Mandache
Viola: Pippa Mills
Cello: Galyna Zelinska
Cello: James Donaldson
Cello: Janet Sim
Harp: Helen Webby
Flute: Tony Ferner
Flute: Margo Askin
Horn: David Cox
Horn: Bernard Shapiro
Horn: Antonio Dimitrov
Clarinet: Gretchen Dunsmore
Clarinet: Jonathan Prior
Oboe: Catherine Gibson
Bassoon: Selena Orwin
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Beautiful Collision (CSO Live Version) · Bic Runga · The Christchurch Symphony
Live In Concert
℗ 2003 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Limited
Released on: 2003-11-20
Associated Performer: Bic Runga with The Christchurch Symphony
Producer: Andre Upston
Conductor: Marc Taddei
Producer: Emily Johansen
Guitar: Harry Harrison
Bass Guitar: Tom Rainey
Percussion: Craig Given
Drums: Greg Donaldson
Timpani: Mark La Roche
Keyboards: Hamish Oliver
Trumpet: Carl Sakofsky
Trumpet: Cameron Pearce
Trombone: Karl Margevka
Viola: Anatoly Zelinsky
Viola: Izabel Mandache
Viola: Pippa Mills
Cello: Galyna Zelinska
Cello: James Donaldson
Cello: Janet Sim
Harp: Helen Webby
Flute: Tony Ferner
Flute: Margo Askin
Horn: David Cox
Horn: Bernard Shapiro
Horn: Antonio Dimitrov
Clarinet: Gretchen Dunsmore
Clarinet: Jonathan Prior
Oboe: Catherine Gibson
Bassoon: Selena Orwin
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Listening for the Weather · Bic Runga
Beautiful Collision
℗ 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd
Released on: 200...
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Listening for the Weather · Bic Runga
Beautiful Collision
℗ 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd
Released on: 2002-10-04
Vocal: Neil Finn
Vocal: Milan Borich
Electric Guitar: Geoff Maddock
Drums: Joey Waronker
Tambourine: Joy Foulkes
Bass: Sebastian Steinberg
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Listening for the Weather · Bic Runga
Beautiful Collision
℗ 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd
Released on: 2002-10-04
Vocal: Neil Finn
Vocal: Milan Borich
Electric Guitar: Geoff Maddock
Drums: Joey Waronker
Tambourine: Joy Foulkes
Bass: Sebastian Steinberg
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Music video by Bic Runga performing Everything Is Beautiful And New (Short Film). (C) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment New Zealand Limited
Listen to Bic Runga her...
Music video by Bic Runga performing Everything Is Beautiful And New (Short Film). (C) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment New Zealand Limited
Listen to Bic Runga here: lnk.to/BicRunga_Collection
Music video by Bic Runga performing Everything Is Beautiful And New (Short Film). (C) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment New Zealand Limited
Listen to Bic Runga here: lnk.to/BicRunga_Collection
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Beautiful Collision · Bic Runga
Beautiful Collision
℗ 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd
Released on: 2002-10-04
Percussion: Jay Foulkes
Drums: Joey Waronker
Bass, Keyboards: Andy Morton
Bass: Alan Gregg
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Live at Auckland Town Hall, for the Beautiful Collision 20th anniversary tour. 28 July, 2023. Part of Elemental Nights. More songs in playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYRJJAaoMsKz9iHdeYEz1djm9bfgtZit #bicrunga
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All video is recorded and edited by me. All copyright for music and other performance rights remain with the respective owners. Content on this channel's watch pages (non-Short videos) is not monetised by me, in accordance with YouTube's policies. If you see ads on this video, some or all of the content has been claimed by the copyright owners, and any proceeds go to them - as it should! Support your favourite artists and new ones, see live music, go out to shows, buy music and merch, and sing-along when you know the words. :-)
Provided to YouTube by Columbia
Beautiful Collision (CSO Live Version) · Bic Runga · The Christchurch Symphony
Live In Concert
℗ 2003 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Limited
Released on: 2003-11-20
Associated Performer: Bic Runga with The Christchurch Symphony
Producer: Andre Upston
Conductor: Marc Taddei
Producer: Emily Johansen
Guitar: Harry Harrison
Bass Guitar: Tom Rainey
Percussion: Craig Given
Drums: Greg Donaldson
Timpani: Mark La Roche
Keyboards: Hamish Oliver
Trumpet: Carl Sakofsky
Trumpet: Cameron Pearce
Trombone: Karl Margevka
Viola: Anatoly Zelinsky
Viola: Izabel Mandache
Viola: Pippa Mills
Cello: Galyna Zelinska
Cello: James Donaldson
Cello: Janet Sim
Harp: Helen Webby
Flute: Tony Ferner
Flute: Margo Askin
Horn: David Cox
Horn: Bernard Shapiro
Horn: Antonio Dimitrov
Clarinet: Gretchen Dunsmore
Clarinet: Jonathan Prior
Oboe: Catherine Gibson
Bassoon: Selena Orwin
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Listening for the Weather · Bic Runga
Beautiful Collision
℗ 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd
Released on: 2002-10-04
Vocal: Neil Finn
Vocal: Milan Borich
Electric Guitar: Geoff Maddock
Drums: Joey Waronker
Tambourine: Joy Foulkes
Bass: Sebastian Steinberg
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Music video by Bic Runga performing Everything Is Beautiful And New (Short Film). (C) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment New Zealand Limited
Listen to Bic Runga here: lnk.to/BicRunga_Collection
Briolette Kah Bic RungaMNZM (born 13 January 1976 in Christchurch, New Zealand), recording as Bic Runga, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist pop artist. Her first solo album, Drive (1997), debuted at number one on the New Zealand Top 40 Album charts.
Runga has since become one of the highest-selling New Zealand artists in recent history. She has also found success internationally in Australia, Ireland, and, to some extent, in the UK.
Early life
Runga was born in Christchurch. Her mother, Sophia Tang, was a Chinese Malaysian lounge singer in Malaysia when she met Joseph Runga, a Māori. They moved to New Zealand to live.
Runga grew up in Hornby, Christchurch surrounded by a musically-inclined family, and started recording songs with her sisters, Boh and Pearl, when she was four years old. Runga's older sister Boh is now a vocalist in the New Zealand rock group Stellar, while Pearl is a session singer.
She learned how to play drums at the age of eleven, and guitar at about fourteen. Runga also learned to play the keyboard around this time. She attended Cashmere High School, joining high school bands and performing with local jazz groups by her mid-teens.
(feat. Dan Wilson of Semisonic) Between an overload of information And a striving for a pure dedication I Find myself looking for the exit sign See your pretty face in the sunshine In the morning after staying up all night I Want to wake you just to hear you Tell me it's alright And all I want to be is too much Sometimes for me Good morning baby I hope I'm gonna make it through another day Good morning baby I hope I'm gonna make it through another day See the stars and all the planets Fly the great wide world and have it all Yeah better get a ticket better get in line I'm praying now for beautiful weather Take a car and drive forever but I'm Only ever sitting at the traffic light And all the world to see is too much Sometimes for me Good morning baby I hope I'm gonna make it through another day Good morning baby I hope we're gonna make it through another day (And when you rise) And when you rise you'll find me here (Open your eyes) And see myself reflected there (And for awhile)
Runga is ...BeautifulCollision was played from start to finish and some bonus songs were tacked on to the end because one does not simply go to a Bic Runga concert and not hear 'Sway' or 'Drive'.
Later this year, she's embarking on a four-date New Zealand tour in celebration of BeautifulCollision, which she says remains her favorite album ... I wanted Beautiful Collision to be timeless ... Bic Runga’s Beautiful Collision tour starts in July.