Audius Mtawarira

Audius Mtawarira, is a multi-ARIA Award winning Australian record producer, composer, artist and songwriter more commonly known as "Audius".

Audius Mtawarira was born in 1977 in Harare, Zimbabwe, and now resides in Sydney, Australia. He attended Ruzawi primary school, a prestigious private Anglican boarding school where he was amongst the first Native African students to be enrolled. Audius then attended Peterhouse Boys' School, a senior private boarding school in Zimbabwe where he sang in the School Choir, played piano and drums. He also participated well in Cricket, Rugby and Athletics, representing his school and district in all. He completed his senior education at Gateway Senior school in Harare where he continued in the school choir and participated in most of the schools music programs. He also represented his school as captain in Rugby, Cricket and Athletics. In 1996 Audius left Zimbabwe to further his studies at Edith Cowan University in Perth Western Australia. He later moved to Curtin University [1] for a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Graphic Design.

Audius then turned his attention to writing and producing music. He started producing in 2002, producing the majority of Selwyn's album, Meant To Be which peaked at number nine on the ARIA Album charts and was certified Gold. In 2003 he collaborated with Delta Goodrem on Innocent Eyes co-writing and producing the number one single "Born to Try". The song debuted at number three before reaching number one on the Australian Singles chart, becoming Goodrem's first number one single. It spent three months in the top five and went on to sell over 210,000 copies, making it the third highest selling single of 2002. In the UK, it debuted and peaked the charts at number three, spending eleven weeks in the top forty and reached number one on the New Zealand singles charts. "Born to Try" won 'Single of the Year' at the ARIA Music Awards of 2003.

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