diverse audience can appreciate. Vai is now signed up with Soul Note Agency run by Te Awanui Reed of Nesian Mystics and is working on the edgy rock-opera Jesus Christ Superstar in Auckland, NZ. The singer released her single and video clip "Koko Rice" in 2015. Later in the same year she released her debut EP Everything's Rosie in 2015. She was nominated again in 2016 for best female artist at the Vodafone Pacific Music awards. Vai now resides in Sydney, working in the entertainment industry while working on new music. Early life Vai was born in Wellington, brought up by her grandmother whom she acknowledges as one of the main influences in her life. She started singing at a very young age, at church and within family gatherings. Her parents were the caretakers of Wesley Methodist Church, on Taranaki St in Wellington. Vai's mother Niutao was a secretary, and her father Peniamina a mechanic. In 1986, Vai's parents found an opportunity in Auckland and decided to start afresh on the North Shore to bring up their girls. At the age of seven, Vai started learning the piano with a neighbour and at that very moment knew she wanted to be a songwriter. By the age of 10, Vai had won many prestigious awards on the North Shore and Auckland under the classical trained direction of her teacher Shirley Fowler. At the age of 12, Vai joined her school rock band, at Takapuna Intermediate School, where she was scouted by conductor and choral director Elise Bradley who now runs the Toronto Children's Choir. At age 13, Vai won a scholarship to study classical singing which allowed her to attend Westlake Girls High School, on the North Shore. Vai studied under the direction of Isabel Barnes, Beatrice Webster and Sheila Richardson. Vai travelled abroad to Argentina, Hawaii, Sydney with her school choir Key Cygnetures who were invited to many musical festivals which inspired her to audition for The New Zealand Youth Choir. She had just finished auditioning also for a placement at the University of Auckland for the performing arts degree in classical singing - Vai had been short listed and successfully gained admission to study performance music. At the end of Vai's second year at university she decided to hold her studies as she had bigger dreams. She wanted to pursue her singer songwriting dream in the music industry. References