‘One of New Zealand’s great moments’: how OMC’s How Bizarre became – and remained – a hit | Music
Twenty-seven years ago this April, a curious Kiwi track jumped to No 1 on the Australian music charts. How Bizarre by OMC (which stands for Ōtara Millionaires Club, made up of frontman Pauly Fuemana and producer Alan Jansson) was the little song that could, eventually taking out No 1 in five countries, topping the US Mainstream Top 40 and reaching No 5 in the UK.Fuemana’s captivating brand of Pasifika gangster-rap-lounge-lizard swagger was born out of duality: his troubled childhood in Ōtara combined with the vibrancy of…