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Biography
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Dave Dobbyn
Real name: David Joseph Dobbyn
Effective period / Period of releases: 1986 - 2016
One of New Zealand's most successful singer-songwriters since the late 1970s, first with Th' Dudes and then fronting his own band DD Smash, before embarking on a hugely successful solo career from the mid 1980s onwards. In December 2020, he was knighted. Sir Dave Dobbyn is now a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.Born 3 January 1957 in Auckland, New Zealand.