25 Apr 2024

JCK formed in music school in 2002 as `JCK and the dirty ho bags`. Back then It was James Castady-Kristament as MC and 3 female back up singer and dancers.That incarnation didn`t last long but one of the singers Lou Ludbrook would go on to be the second member of JCK in its second incarnation as a boy/girl duo. They worked hard writing recording and playing shows around Auckland City which eventually payed off. In 2004 they caught the attention of respected Indie label Pagan/Antenna records and scored a record deal. Soon after, they were successful in receiving funding from New Zealand on Air and recorded their debut single 'Freak in the club' with an accompanying music video, Freak in the club was a "Hip Pop" single that took the nation by storm and played on all of New Zealand's music television shows for a good part of a year.

Spirit X was there second single that played on Television in 2009 receiving tens of thousands of internet downloads.

JCK has just released his second album The Bees which is available from bandcamp and covers the signiture multi genre influenced hip hop that JCK has become known for.


Throughout the 9 years JCK has been in action he´s had 4 music videos played on national television, over a dozen songs played on radio stations throughout New Zealand and tens of thousands of music downloads via the internet.



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