NZ music legends in Samoa fundraiser 

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Some of New Zealand's greatest music legends are combining for the first time to fundraise for tsunami devastated Samoa.

The Finn brothers, Dave Dobbyn, Scribe and Bic Runga are just a few of the headline acts that will be performing at Auckland's Vector Arena on Monday.

Rap artist Savage aka Demetrius Savelio is behind the fundraiser. The award winning star makes no secret for his love of his homeland of Samoa.

He says the tsunami is one of the worst disasters the island nation has ever had to face.

"It's broken a lot of people's hearts and we are just praying it hasn't broken a lot of people's faith," Savage says.

But the tsunami also left a personal scar on the artist. On his grandmother's side, 14 family members were killed in the Samoan earthquake and tsunami.

That was why he, along with his label Dawn Raid, hit the phones to see what support they could drum up for a fundraising show.

The result is a line-up representing the who's who of the New Zealand music industry, all prepared to perform for free.

"Everybody wanted to do something, we just tried to put it all into one show and say let's do the best show we can do and lets pass over one big cheque," Andy Murnane of Dawn Raid says.

The relief concert has adopted Savage's latest music video I Love The Islands, which was dedicated to Samoa and filmed just three months ago on the very beaches that have been wiped out.

"I'm a Samoan, know what I mean, and I represent Samoa to the fullest & that's the flag that I carry and the country I wear on my back," he says.

Savage and the music industry hopes the New Zealand public will come out and support their efforts.

$25 tickets are available from Ticketmaster - all proceeds will be going to Samoa