Chance Waters is an Australian hip hop

Australian hip hop

Australian hip hop music began in the early 1980s; originally it was primarily influenced by hip hop music and culture imported via radio and television from the United States of America. However, since the 1990s, a distinctive local style has developed. Australian hip hop is an underground music...

 artist and record producer from Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 Australia. He released his debut album Inkstains in November 2009 via Obese Records Distribution

Obese Records

Obese Records is an Australian hip hop record label. It is the largest Australian independent Hip-Hop label, a retail store and a touring and record distribution company.-History:...

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Waters has toured in support of many of Australia's biggest hip-hop acts, including Bliss N Eso

Bliss n Eso

Bliss n Eso are an ARIA Award-winning Australian hip hop band based in Sydney, and were originally known as Bliss N' Esoterikizm for their debut EP The Arrival...

, Drapht

Drapht

Drapht is an Australian hip hop singer from Perth, Western Australia. Drapht is a member of the Syllaboliks crew, which comprises fellow Australian hip hop artists from Perth.-Biography:...

, The Herd & Pez

Pez (musician)

Pez is a Hip-hop MC from Melbourne, Australia. He attended Kew High School in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. His debut album, A Mind Of My Own peaked at #19 on the ARIA Urban album charts.-Biography:...

. In 2009 he was a Featured Artist on Triple J Unearthed, an initiative run by the national youth broadcaster Triple J

Triple J

triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...

 to expose and promote talented unsigned Australian artists - since being unearthed he has received airplay and accolades from the station. In the same year he was also awarded a front page feature on social networking website Myspace

Myspace

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 and received coverage in the countries most popular broadsheet The Australian

The Australian

The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....

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Biography

Waters attended Fort Street High School

Fort Street High School

Fort Street High School is a co-educational, academically selective, public high school currently located at Petersham, an inner western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

 in Petersham

Petersham, New South Wales

Petersham is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Petersham is located 6 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Marrickville Council...

 a school whose alumni includes artists and bands such as Josh Pyke

Josh Pyke

Josh Pyke is an Australian singer-songwriting musician.-Beginnings and Feeding the Wolves :Josh Pyke was in his first band by age 12 and played his first performance in front of 650 parents and students at his primary school graduation. Playing guitar and initial song writing efforts came aged 14...

, Horrorshow

Horrorshow (band)

Horrorshow are a two-piece hip-hop group from Sydney, Australia, comprising Nick Bryant-Smith as emcee and Adit Gauchan providing the beats as DJ. Both members grew up in the inner-west suburbs of Sydney, attending Fort Street High School...

 and Spit Syndicate

Spit Syndicate

Spit Syndicate are an ARIA Award nominated Australian hip hop duo based in Sydney.-Biography:In 2006, Spit Syndicate debuted by releasing a mixtape CD: The Future's Bright....

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Natural Causes

From 2003 to 2007 Phatchance was one of the founding members of the Sydney Hip-Hop group Natural Causes the flagship act for Independent record label Nurcha Records. Prior to the collapse of Nurcha Records and the eventual collapse of the band, they played more than 70 live shows across Australia.

Natural Causes first and only release The Incidental Noise Demo was released on Nurcha Records in 2007. The first single from the release Introductions received Single Of The Week on FBi Radio

FBi Radio

FBi is an independent, not-for-profit community radio station in Sydney, Australia. FBi places a heavy emphasis on local alternative music: it has a policy that at least 50 per cent of its music content is to be Australian, of which at least half comes from Sydney musicians.FBi began 'test...

, Sydney's largest Independent Broadcaster.

Solo

• Nobody Give Raph a Guest Spot EP with Coptic Soldier (2008)
• Inkstains LP (2009)
• Inkstains (Acoustic) EP (2011)

External links

• Official Website