Muroki performed a laidback In My Room session to celebrate his inclusion in our Future of Music 2026 series.
We chose the genre-blending Kiwi singer-songwriter as one of 25 ANZ acts we’re excited about for this year and beyond.
In an exclusive interview for the series, Muroki told us about one of his biggest career highlights. “Jack Johnson and I ended up workshopping a mashup of his song ‘Breakdown’ and my song ‘Wavy’ backstage before his Auckland show,” he revealed. “Then we jammed it live together at Western Springs in front of a 20,000 people. Pretty surreal memory.”
He also looked forward to the year ahead. “I’m also deep into creating my next body of work, which I’m really excited about. So yeah — more shows and more music,” he said.
That was one of two Muroki x Rolling Stone crossovers this year so far: we also caught up with him to discuss his debut album, Amber Skies, which was a truly global affair. He wrote and recorded the record while living a nomadic lifestyle between Berlin, the Portuguese coast, back with his family in Kenya, and in Raglan.
“It just opens your eyes to so many different things, you know?” the Kenyan-New Zealand musician told us about his busy nomadic lifestyle. “And you create all these stories along the way, which just create great songs.”
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Muroki then returned home to celebrate his debut album on first national tour in three years.
Muroki featured in a major Rolling Stone AU/NZ list last year: we included “Wavy”, one of his breakout hits, in our Best Australian & New Zealand Songs of the 21st Century So Far countdown.
“Blessed with the ability to stand out in a number of genres, chiefly pop and reggae, Muroki delicately combined multiple genres to groovy effect on ‘Wavy’, one of the early songs that first made his name,” we praised.
