Musician and Performer
Embrace have not only enjoyed critical and commercial acclaim at home where they have picked up several awards and nominations including the coveted best new band award at the Brats, but they have also enjoyed similar success overseas, most notably in America where the band were put on the cover of billboard magazine, and in Thailand where their single "You're Not Alone" stayed at number 1 for six weeks becoming the biggest selling single of that year. Closer to home his band are famous for spearheading a movement which later became known as guerilla gigging. Secret gigs by the band so far have involved playing everywhere from beaches and forests to most notoriously a staged break in of the big brother house.
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“Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil,
The sovereign ghost. As such, the Socrates
Of snails, musician of pears, principium
And lex. Sed quæritur: is this same wig
Of things, this nincompated pedagogue,
Preceptor to the sea?”
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