MC Trey

Biography

Over the past 10 years, Trey has established herself as a prominent artist within hip-hop & urban music in Australia. Her unique style offers a fresh serve of positive, melodic & insightful rhymes & rhythms bout life, love & her experiences. Her Fijian heritage and father's gospel singing helped inspire & mould Trey's musical abilities. She began writing lyrics in primary school, while listening to reggae, island music and what ever was on the radio, and was introduced to hip-hop through movies...

Over the past 10 years, Trey has established herself as a prominent artist within hip-hop & urban music in Australia. Her unique style offers a fresh serve of positive, melodic & insightful rhymes & rhythms bout life, love & her experiences. Her Fijian heritage and father's gospel singing helped inspire & mould Trey's musical abilities.

She began writing lyrics in primary school, while listening to reggae, island music and what ever was on the radio, and was introduced to hip-hop through movies like 'Krush Groove' and music videos by 'Rock Steady Crew', but wasn't propelled to rap her own words over beats until the early 90's.

Trey has entertained crowds around Australia, NZ, the US, UK & Japan. Armed with one of the most talented DJs in the country, Nick Toth and Trey guarantee to rip it up on any stage! TREY's album, 'Tapastry Tunes' (Shock Records) boasts production by Australian producers, Danielsan (Koolism), DJ Bonez and UK producer, Spider Johnson, receiving rave reviews from media & listeners all over the country. Following the release of 'Tapastry Tunes', Trey completed a successful Triple J presented East Coast tour, climaxing with a sold out headline show at The Basement (Syd) & Live at the Wireless recording on Triple J. She also rocked the stages of the 2004 Big Day Out Tour performing in Auckland, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth & Adelaide.

Trey has supported and performed onstage alongside Hip-Hop heavy-weights such as: COMMON, RZA, XZIBIT, JURASSIC5,THE FUGEES, THE LIKS, NAUGHTY BY NATURE, RUN DMC, MICHAEL FRANTI, THE ROOTS, BLACKSTAR, COMMON, BLACKALICIOUS, COMPANY FLOW, CHE-FU, KING KAPISI, SCRIBE AS WELL AS DJS ROC RAIDIA, CASH MONEY, SHADOW & Q-BERT.

Trey releases: Creepin' CD/vinyl single (tv1/sony music) w/Fatt Dex: '01, Daily Affirmations CD (tapastry tunes/mother tongues): '00, Universal Soldier 12" (tapastry tunes/mother tongues): '99, Projectiles US tour tape (tapastry toons): '98, Projectiles demo CD & Tape (tapastry toons) w/DJ Bonez:'96/97 TREY also runs hip-hop music workshops for young people.

Trey is currently working on an album with Maya Jupiter and DJ Nick Toth under the name of Foreign Heights. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.