Kane Strang was born into a family of musicians. He grew up in Ōtepoti, which is a small gothic city in the South Island of Aotearoa. Despite his musical family, Strang wasn’t immediately drawn to making music himself. The first instrument he learned was clarinet in high school. After high school, Strang and his best friend adventured across the world to Germany. They wound up living in Krefeld, a tiny industrial German town. Here, he first began experimenting with songwriting as a solo musician. In an abandoned German bomb shelter in the town, Strang recorded a collection of demos. At the end of 2013, Strang returned to Ōtepoti. While working part time at a Thai restaurant, he wrote and recorded his first album ‘Blue Cheese’, which was released in 2016 via Flying Nun Records in Aotearoa and Ba Da Bing Records in North America. Strang followed this with ‘Two Hearts and No Brain’ in 2017, which he released with Dead Oceans. He was nominated for the New Zealand Music Awards Critics’ Choice Award and Taite Music Award for this album. Strang began recording ‘Happy to Perform’ at Radio One in Ōtepoti with Steven John Marr in 2019. Both Strang and Marr moved to Tāmaki Makaurau, which led to Strang recording the rest of the album with Marr at Roundhead Studios. He self-released ‘Happy to Perform’ in March 2021.