Coco Solid is an emcee and writer

Writer

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. Her music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

al style is a mixture of hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

, disco

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

 and electronica

Electronica

Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...

. Solid worked with Erik Ultimate (Benjamin Buchanan) over her first five albums. She now works with multiple collaborators across the globe.

Career

Solid was named in the top 10 albums of 2005, 2006 and 2007 in the Sunday Star Times, The Listener

New Zealand Listener

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 or on Radio New Zealand National. New York rapper Princess Superstar

Princess Superstar

Princess Superstar is an American emcee and DJ.Her musical style, as she describes it, is flip-flop — a mixture of 'hip hop, electroclash and electronica'.-Background:...

 has covered the hook of Denim & Leather in her song, Monday Morning.

Solid's single "Crimefighters" received the BNet

BNET

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 New Zealand college radio "Best Hip Hop Track" award in 2007. It has also reached #1 on BNet

BNET

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 charts. Solid & Erik Ultimate rapped with Kiwi group Flight of the Conchords

Flight of the Conchords

Flight of the Conchords are a New Zealand-based comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. The duo's comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2007 on HBO, also called Flight of the Conchords.They were named...

 at SXSW 2006. This was posted on YouTube

YouTube

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 and has received over 500,000 views.

Coco Solid and Eric Ultimate have supported Girl Talk

Girl Talk (musician)

Gregg Michael Gillis , better known by his stage name Girl Talk, is an American musician specializing in mashups and digital sampling. Gillis has released five LPs on the record label Illegal Art and EPs on 333 and 12 Apostles....

, Avenue D

Avenue D

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, The 5.6.7.8's

The 5.6.7.8's

The 5.6.7.8's are an all-female Japanese rock trio, whose music is reminiscent of American surf music, rockabilly and garage rock. They frequently cover songs from American rock and roll. Each member is from Tokyo, Japan....

 and King Brothers

King Brothers

King Brothers [キング・ブラザーズ] is a rock band from Nishinomiya City in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Formed in 1997, the band made its major label debut on Toshiba EMI in 2001...

 in NZ. Overseas Coco Solid has rapped alongside Sway

Sway DaSafo

Derek Andrew Safo is a Ghanaian British musician who uses the stage names Sway DaSafo or Sway. He is signed to Akon's Konvict Muzik record label and he is also a producer, establishing DCypha Productions.-Childhood:...

, TTC

TTC (band)

TTC is a four member hip hop and electronic band from Paris, France. It is composed of MCs Tido Berman, Teki Latex and Cuizinier plus DJ Orgasmic. They were signed to Big Dada for their first LP Ceci N'est Pas Un Disque, the title of which referred to René Magritte's painting La trahison des...

, O’mmas Keith from Sa-Ra

Sa-Ra

Sa-Ra is a hip-hop group based in Los Angeles, California, also known by its full name, The Sa-Ra Creative Partners. The group is composed of Om'Mas Keith, Taz Arnold, and Shafiq Husayn...

, Spankrock and The Rogers Sisters

The Rogers Sisters

-History:The Rogers Sisters formed in 1999 after the breakup of Ruby Falls. Composed of sisters Laura and Jennifer Rogers and multi-instrumentalist / vocalist, Miyuki Furtado, the group released its debut on Troubleman Unlimited in 2002. The album's cover featured a Xerox collage portrait of George...

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Coco Solid received the APRA

Australasian Performing Right Association

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 Professional Development Award for song-writing in March 2009.

Current projects

Solid is recorded with Denmark hip-hop producer Robin Hannibal (from Owusu & Hannibal) after meeting him at the 2008 Red Bull Music Academy

Red Bull Music Academy

The Red Bull Music Academy is an annual international music event where up and coming producers, singers, arrangers, DJs and musicians get the opportunity to learn from top industry professionals.- History :...

. Two songs they created at the academy were released on 12" on Yam Who's London label, Izm Records, under their joint name Parallel Dance Ensemble. The first track "Turtle Pizza Cadillacs" (#1 on Radio Active

Radio Active (Sweden)

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 charts for two weeks in May 2009) comes with a stop-motion video by Aleks Sakowski (who has now made three videos for Coco Solid).

The duo are released a 12" and digital EP on 25 March 2011 on German label Permanent Vacation. The first single "Shopping Cart" was #1 on Radio Active for four weeks and tweeted by Gilles Peterson

Gilles Peterson

Gilles Peterson , is a DJ, record collector and record label owner from London, UK. Through his labels Acid Jazz, Talkin' Loud, and latterly Brownswood Recordings, he has been associated with the careers of well-known artists of the 1990s such as Erykah Badu, Roni Size and Jamiroquai...

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Solid completed a ten date tour to Mexico

Mexico

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, New York

New York

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, Berlin

Berlin

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, Cologne

Cologne

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, Lisbon

Lisbon

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, Porto

Porto

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 and Tokyo

Tokyo

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 in March and April 2009. The tour was supported by the New Zealand Music Commission’s Outward Sound grant scheme.

Albums

• Rap N Roll (2003)
• Denim & Leather (2004)
• Erik Ultimate presents Denim & Leisure (2005)
• Gentlemen Prefer Bombz (2006)
• The Radical Bad Attack (2008)
• Parallel Dance Ensemble (2009)
• Possessions & Obsessions (2011)

Records

• Graffiti Girls 4 Life (2008)
• Parallel Dance Ensemble (2009)
• Run (2010)
• Possessions & Obsessions" (2011)