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Zaine Griff is a New Zealand singer-songwriter, musician, and producer. He is best known for his work with the band Split Enz, and for his solo albums. He has released five solo albums, and has collaborated with many other artists, including Crowded House, Neil Finn, and Tim Finn. Griff was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and began playing music at an early age. He joined the band Split Enz in 1976, and was a member until the band's dissolution in 1984. He then embarked on a solo career, releasing his debut album, Zaine Griff, in 1985. He has since released four more solo albums, and has collaborated with many other artists. Griff has been nominated for several awards, including the New Zealand Music Awards, and has won several awards, including the New Zealand Music Awards for Best Male Vocalist in 1985. Griff is currently 67 years old. He has a height of 5 feet 10 inches (178 cm) and a weight of 165 lbs (75 kg). His zodiac sign is Libra.

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Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 4 October 1957
Birthday 4 October
Birthplace Auckland, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealand

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2017

A new and special rerelease of Zaine Griff's early albums Ashes and Diamonds and Figvres was released in August 2017 on a 2CD pack in MIG Records Collectors Premium Series. It’s a very special release as beside the remastered albums it consists 21 mostly unknown and unreleased demo’s, rare songs and outtakes. {}

2013

During the sessions for his first solo-album Griff worked with David Bowie. As recalled by Griff himself - in an April 2013 interview on New Zealand radio - producer Tony Visconti had just returned from working with David Bowie in Berlin, when they started to record Griff's album in autumn 1979. During the sessions Bowie walked in, saw Griff recording and asked him and his band to record three new versions of his songs. One of them was the acoustic "Space Oddity" (1979 version), the other one a totally different version of "Panic in Detroit" which was later added to Bowie's next album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (and years later again to Heathen). Tony Visconti has confirmed he brought Bowie and Griff together in the studio. The songs were also produced by Tony Visconti and intended for use in a new year's eve TV-show in 1979. In the end, only the new (acoustic) "Space Oddity" was broadcast and also released as B-side of the maxi-single "Moon of Alabama". The meeting of Bowie and Griff is also described in David Bowie: An Illustrated Record by Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray. In the book Bowie is quoted, telling he was amazed to see the resemblance between him and Griff when they first met.

In April 2013, Griff released his fourth album The Visitor in Auckland, produced by Eddie Rayner of Split Enz. Later that year, Griff found a box of old studio demo recordings he thought were long lost. They were recorded in London between 1978 and 1983, and consisted of three early versions of songs he re-recorded years later for his album Figvres. There were also nine songs which were unknown until they were released. In an Auckland studio, he had the tapes repaired and the demos remastered before he released them as his fifth album Immersed in May 2014. In January 2016 Griff released his sixth solo album Mood Swings, which has a more European sound that reminds his early eighties albums.

2011

In 2011 Griff returned to live music. After a series of live concerts in his homeland New Zealand, he returned to the London stage in October 2012, when he was a guest in Toyah's live show "Resurrection" in O2 Islington. In September 2014, Griff did two live concerts in Tokyo, Japan.

1984

In 1984, Griff returned to New Zealand, where he became the owner of a jazz club in Auckland. He has produced several artists and has written newer songs in more recent times. In January 2010, Griff started to record his third album Child Who Wants The Moon, which was released in August 2011. Griff's first two albums Ashes and Diamonds and Figvres were re-released both on CD and on iTunes in June 2012. In November 2012 they were released in a special Japanese release with bonus songs.

1982

In 1982, Griff had an art exhibition in Ebury Gallery, London, to which the London artist Mark Wardel also contributed work, inspired by Griff's music. In 1983 Griff was involved in Hans Zimmer and Warren Cann's Helden Project. Griff sang on six of the songs on the recorded album Spies. The album, however, was never released. Only the single "Holding On" - a duet of Griff and singer Linda Allan - was released on ZiCa Records.

1980

On the second album Figvres, Kate Bush sang backing vocals for the song "Flowers", which was dedicated to the pair's mime and dance teacher Lindsay Kemp. Also, Yukihiro Takahashi, of Japanese electronic band YMO, joined the musicians. The single "Tonight" peaked at #54 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1980, whilst "Ashes and Diamonds" reached #68 in the same listing in June that year.

1979

In 1979 Griff started his solo career, using various musicians for his band, including future film music composer Hans Zimmer, and Ultravox drummer Warren Cann. He released two albums, Ashes and Diamonds (recorded in 1979, released in 1980) and Figvres (1982). Ashes and Diamonds was produced by Tony Visconti. On both albums, Zimmer played keyboards and worked the computers. On the album Figvres, Zimmer's influence was more present in the musical arrangements of the songs. For Zimmer, the album "Figvres" was an inspiration for his later work in making soundtracks for films. Zimmer is now a well-known film music composer, who made soundtracks for over 110 well-known films.

1976

After leaving the Kemp company, Griff joined a band called Screemer, with whom he released two singles: "Interplanetary Twist", in 1976, and "In The City", in 1977. Griff also played bass guitar with The Kinks on their album, Misfits.

1975

In 1975, he left The Human Instinct and moved to London, England, to continue his musical career. There he became the vocalist and bassist of a band called Baby Face and began studying mime and movement alongside Kate Bush, Adam Darius and Lindsay Kemp. At the time, he joined Kemp's production of Flowers, a play written by Jean Genet, but quit when the company went on tour to Australia, as he wanted to stay in London to continue with music.

1974

Aged 16, he joined rock band The Human Instinct as their bassist, taking the stage name of Glenn Mikkelson. During his time with the band, they recorded two albums: The Hustler (1974) and Peg Leg - which was recorded in 1975 but not released until 2002. Despite his youth, Griff (now known as Mikkelson) wrote seven songs for these albums and was lead vocalist on five.

1957

Zaine Griff (born 4 October 1957 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a singer-songwriter who was part of the English new wave and new romantics scene of the early 1980s. Raised in New Zealand, he moved to England in the 1970s, where he continued with his artistic and musical career, becoming a solo artist. He worked with Lindsay Kemp, in arts, and The Human Instinct, The Kinks, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Gary Numan and Hans Zimmer, in music.