Boh Runga

Boh Runga 1969/1970 (age 41–42) is a New Zealand recording artist and was the lead singer and guitarist in New Zealand rock band Stellar*. Boh is the older sister of Bic and Pearl Runga who are also musicians. Boh grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand. She is the daughter of Joseph Runga, a Maori ex-serviceman and Sophia Tang, a Chinese singer who abandoned her own music career in Malaysia to join Joseph in his home country. Joseph was a self-taught pianist and passed away in 2005 from a heart attack. Boh left Christchurch for Auckland to form Stellar* in the late 1990s. After signing with Sony Music, Stellar* released their 1999 debut album Mix and quickly became Sony's biggest selling New Zealand band as the album went multi-platinum....