OMC

OMC is a music group from Otara, Auckland, New Zealand which had a worldwide hit with the song "How Bizarre" in 1996. Originally started as the Otara Millionaires Club, the full name of the band is tongue-in-cheek reference to Otara's position as one of the poorest suburbs of Auckland.

Pauly Fuemana and Alan Jansson were, in effect OMC. The group had a local hit with "We are the OMC". By mid-1995, OMC had broken up but Fuemana used the group's acronym as a solo artist.

Signed to Simon Grigg's huh label, in 1995 the OMC single "How Bizarre" was released in New Zealand. It was an immediate smash, reaching number one late that year, without even a video, where it sat for some six weeks, selling in excess of 35,000 (3½ times Platinum), a figure STILL unheard of in NZ in 2005. It was followed by "Right On" which was a platinum single. In 1996 "How Bizarre" went number one in Australia, selling over 150,000 singles. Later in the year the single went to number 4 in the UK and number one in countries across Europe and much of the rest of the world. It was followed by the album, also entitled "How Bizarre" and the US release.