Hope One

Hope One is respected as one of the top female beatboxers in the world. Descending from the Te Ati Haunui-a-Pãpãrangi tribe and the Ngati Maniapoto tribe she is currently the only Maori female professional beatboxer. She began beatboxing as a teenager and made her stage debut in 2004. Her determination to master her craft has built her career as an independent, award-winning, artist. Hope is a multi-disciplinary talent who has supported hip hop artists such as T-Pain, Eve, Naughty by Nature, as well as performed alongside choirs, instrumentalists, dance troupes, acrobats, cabaret shows and more. Hope appeared on Australian Idol, the only female beatboxer ever to do so, and more recently can be found touring the world with international award winning theatre show ‘Hot Brown Honey’.