READIn the five years since the release of her first EP Lightswitch, Chaii has built a kaleidoscopic world filled with international tours, on screen soundtrack hits, a-list collaborations, global artist programs and a 5 time AMA nominated debut album, Safar سفر. The Persian-Aotearoan Artist, Producer and Creative director is a rising star grown from a strong foundation in audio engineering and a desire to connect to her Persian identity whilst making music that makes people move. Known for her distinct fusion of Persian and Western styles, Chaii honours the genres that soundtracked her youth, Hip Hop, R’n’B and Persian music, whilst producing within a new genre of cross cultural musical synthesis that ‘captures the diaspora’. For Chaii, her technical production and vision may be expertly crafted but her driving forces are uncomplicated; “to make people happy, dance and show my culture in my music”.