BYLLIE-JEAN

A product of these islands at the bottom of the world, raised by shearers and preachers, tobacco pickers and truck drivers in small hoods and remote valleys, she spins yarns to melody in two languages.

Bringing the acclaimed world of her EP Filter into a live experience, along with a collection of new, unreleased songs emerging from her current creative practice.

Byllie-jean writes and sings to find peace in rhythm, sovereignty through synthesisers and transcendence from the humanoid pandemonium via 808s.

She rides the same tail winds as the hoards of shapeshifters and storytellers with oro to offer as reciprocation for life on a magical and generous planet.

Byllie-Jean

Byllie-Jean (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga, Ngāti Pāhauwera) is a poet, researcher, and singer-songwriter whose work slips between genres as easily as it moves between worlds. Born beside the Inangahua River in Te Tai Poutini and shaped by a lifetime of journeys across the motu, she writes from a landscape populated by whakapapa, myth, memory, and the beautiful absurdities of contemporary life.

Winner of the Taite Music Prize for Best Independent Debut Album (2025) for Filter and the APRA Maioha Silver Scroll (2022) for Te Iho, R&B undertones collide with trap beats, spectral folk, and echoes of classical composition, producing work that is at once ethereal and gritty. Writing in English and te reo Māori, she is currently crafting her next body of work.