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Valkyrie is a New Zealand rock/hip-hop band based in South Auckland. In 2017 the band was nominated for Best Video by a Māori Artist at the Waiata Māori Music Awards.
The band members are vocalist Omer Gilroy ( Nga Puhi, Ngāi Tahu), guitarist Rebel Reid (Nga Puhi) and drummer/keyboardist Brandon Haru (Nga Puhi, Tainui). Reid and Gilroy were childhood friends who attended
Valkyrie is a New Zealand rock/hip-hop band based in South Auckland. In 2017 the band was nominated for Best Video by a Māori Artist at the Waiata Māori Music Awards.
The band members are vocalist Omer Gilroy ( Nga Puhi, Ngāi Tahu), guitarist Rebel Reid (Nga Puhi) and drummer/keyboardist Brandon Haru (Nga Puhi, Tainui). Reid and Gilroy were childhood friends who attended Papatoetoe High School
Papatoetoe High School (PHS) is a secondary school (years 9–13) in Papatoetoe suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
History
Papatoetoe High School was established in 1956.
February 2021 COVID-19 outbreak
On 14 February, a Year 9 student at Papat ...
together and also studied together at the New Zealand Radio Training School at Whitireia New Zealand. In 2012 they started making music together, and were joined by Haru in 2015. The band members draw creative inspiration from their Māori cultural heritage, Norse mythology
Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Nordic folklore of the modern period ...
and gothic rock
Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted toward dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie a ...
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References
{{reflist New Zealand rock music groups Tainui Ngāi Tahu Māori-language singers