KarynHay
- Presenter
As longtime presenter of alternative music show Radio With Pictures, Karyn Hay won fame for daring to speak in her own accent. Since leaving the show in the late 80s, Hay has worked on both sides of the microphone, directing music videos, managing radio station Kiwi FM and writing award-winning novel Emerald Budgies.
Screenography
Biography
OMC never escaped the shadow of hit single 'How Bizarre'; Karyn Hay will always be associated with her first television gig. In the early 1980s, Hay found fame for a five-year stint hosting music show Radio with Pictures. As Listener writer Diana Wichtel puts it, Hay's unreconstructed Kiwi vowels "were, depending on your point of view, the end of civilization as we knew it or a breath of indigenous fresh air". Civilization continued; so did Hay's rich career.
Awards
2020 Order of New Zealand Merit
For services to broadcasting and the music industry
“Those unreconstructed Kiwi vowels were, depending on your point of view, the end of civilization as we knew it or a breath of indigenous fresh air. ”