Real name: AJ Hickling

AJ was a talented and prolific musician and producer from Aotearoa/New Zealand. His music encompassed rock, folk, reggae, trance, world fusion, tribal beats and contemporary classical piano. AJ was also the drummer in the rock/folk band Tommy and made worldbeat trance fusion music as Diwata. Since 2012, AJ made a living for himself and his family as the "Piano Busker" playing his street piano publicly, in the most beautiful locations he could find in the South Island of New Zealand. "Reconnecting music, nature, and people, almost exclusively outside of the established music culture and venues, has in many ways been the most rewarding journey of my life."

Sadly AJ died of cancer in December 2023 aged 47.

“I think at the end of the day, life is a gift, and it’s a mystery. We don’t know where it comes from. We don’t know what we’re here for. We don’t know how long we’ve got".