''Shakaya'' is the first

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by the Australian duo of the same name, which was released in Australia on 18 October 2002 (see

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) by

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. It has a mix of pop and R&B tracks – mostly co-written by the duo,

Simone Stacey Simone Angela Stacey (born November 1977) is an Australian soul and jazz singer-songwriter. She was a founding mainstay member of girl pop duo, Shakaya, along with Naomi Wenitong, from 2002 to 2006. Soon after Wenitong formed a hip-hop group, ...

and

Naomi Wenitong Naomi Sky Wenitong (born 1982) is an Australian singer-songwriter based in Cairns, Queensland. Under the name, Nay, she is a member of hip hop group, The Last Kinection, alongside her older brother, Joel "Weno" Wenitong, and Jacob "DJ Jaytee" T ...

, with their manager and producer, Reno Nicastro. The album debuted at number five on the Australian

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. ''Shakaya'' provided three hits on the related ARIA singles chart: "

Stop Calling Me "Stop Calling Me" is a song written by Reno Nicastro, Simone Stacey and Naomi Wenitong, produced by Nicastro for Australian music duo Shakaya's first album, ''Shakaya (album), Shakaya'' (2002). The song is about relationships, about "boyfriends w ...

" (January 2002), " Sublime" (May) and "

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" (September).

Background

Shakaya Shakaya are an Australian girl group formed in Cairns, Queensland in 2002 by Simone Stacey and Naomi Wenitong. The two met in 1999 while studying an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music course and they had both been writing individually b ...

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met in 1999 while studying a music course in

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– both had already started writing songs, separately. They reconnected in August 2001 and formed their duo early in the following year in Cairns. The duo's debut self-titled album appeared in October 2002 via

/Sony Music Distribution and was produced by their talent manager and nightclub owner, Reno Nicastro. It peaked at number five on the Australian

. It also appeared in the Australasian Album Chart, peaking at number two (blocked from the number-one spot by ''

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'' by

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). Three singles were issued ahead of the album with the first, "

" (January 2002), peaking at number five on the ARIA singles chart. The next two singles, " Sublime" (May) and "

" (September) both reached the top 20. All the tracks on the album were co-written by Stacey and Wenitong, with Nicastro except for "Cinderella".

Track listing

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" ( Vincent Degiorgio, Rebecca Hortlund, George Samuelson, Mikael Lundh, Quint Starkie) – 3:35 # " Sublime" – 3:19 # "Everything" – 3:28 # "Tell Me" – 3:55 # "Give Me Your Name" – 3:52 # "

" – 3:38 # "Mr DJ" – 3:38 # "Tell the Truth" – 3:54 # "Never Tried" – 4:00 # "Take Another Shot"– 3:45 # "He's Lookin' Fine" – 3:39

Charts

References

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