New Zealand
This year decision was easy to make! Marlon Williams gets the opportunity to represent New Zealand, with his new solo album My Boy. More about it you can find here https://www.marlonwilliams.co.nz/bio
Born and raised in Christchurch port suburb of Lyttelton, music started early for young Marlon Williams, though the trail to his chosen alternative-country discipline was hardly flagged. His father sang in a punk band, but with a blend of Ngāi Tahu and Ngāi Tai blood he inevitably did a bit of singing at the local marae, harmonising around the house along with his mum. Church and school choirs later helped polish his natural vocal skills. Gram Parsons was his first country record and, as he tells Silke Hartung, Marlon knew then that this was the music he himself wanted to make.
Marlon Williams - Thinking of Nina