Flooding the stream
When Laxed (Siren Beat) – a simple instrumental by an Auckland teenager – recently became a global hit after US R&B star Jason Derulo added lyrics to create Savage Love (Laxed-Siren Beat), there was understandable scepticism in some quarters.
After all, 17-year-old Joshua Nanai – of Samoan and Cook Island background and known as Jawsh 685 or Joshua Stylah, the digits being Samoa’s dialing code – was at Manurewa High in South Auckland when he wrote the piece one evening on
