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What makes Preoccupied stand out for you as a single? Gigs aside, my biggest highlight is the people I’ve met along the way – so many creative, interesting people! It’s such an exciting world that I love so much to be a part of. The atmosphere is magic and it’s when I feel like I have so much freedom with my set. I travelled to the Maldives to DJ there for a few months! Spring break in Rarotonga and Fiji, but Rhythm & Vines will always hold that special place in my heart. Aside from this release, what’s been the big highlight to date? I think that’s what’s probably evolved the most for me as of late – stopping the comparison of myself to other creatives, or thinking that there’s a right way to do things, and instead just doing what I love, my way. I love the idea of music transporting you somewhere with a feeling: nostalgia, freedom, I really just want people to connect with it in their own way. How has your own music evolved from your beginnings in songwriting to now? I do think it gives me the freedom to evolve with my music and performance style.
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It’s definitely not an intentionally “creative decision”, but I guess I can claim the “effortless” and “organic” part. I had been using Sammie for club bookings and eventually that just caught on. I had gone through a long list of potentials and they all made me feel like I was trying too hard. It also seemed like everyone was coming up with really “cool” and organically effortless names. There’s so much pressure when it comes to a name (in any creative venture), and for some reason, it’s so easy to offer suggestions to other people, but it’s really hard to come up with one yourself. Sammie was the product of me being a Libra – time-efficient and indecisive.
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What’s the background to how you started to perform as Sammie? Hidden Valley and Rhythm & Vines have been some of my favourite festivals to be a part of.
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Started at local clubs and have been lucky enough to use it to travel, and play at different festivals around New Zealand. I’ve been DJing in Auckland for a few years now. Any other musical projects might we know you from? I wasn’t even allowed to go to the school disco, so I’m not sure how I got away with performing on stage in sequin hot-pants at 11. The obnoxious costumes, the inappropriate-for-my age routines, knowing every inch of the Ministry Of Sound annuals! There’s something so incredibly freeing about performing – ironic considering I came from such a conservative upbringing. Hip hop, jazz, contemporary – I lived and breathed dance. Was any high school or other music training especially important to you? Samantha Whitaker, and I’m from Palmerston North.
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What’s your full name, where are you from and what instruments do you play? In 2021 the millennial Libran has released a track called Preoccupied that found its way onto NZ On Air Music‘s latest NewTracks compilation, making it a debut of sorts. Illustrating that the pathway to music production isn’t always flagged by school-age musicianship or vocal training, Auckland ‘newcomer’ Sammie found her own path via a childhood of dance and early adulthood as a club DJ.