Dave Dobbyn Height, Weight, Net Worth, Age, Birthday, Wikipedia, Who, Instagram, Biography
Natalie Ross
Published Jan 19, 2026
Dave Dobbyn is a New Zealand performer, vocalist, musician and record maker. In his initial profession, he was an individual from the stone gathering Th’ Fellows and was the really imaginative power in the pop band DD Crush. From that point forward he has delivered most of his accounts as an independent entertainer.
Sir David Joseph Dobbyn KNZM was born on January 3, 1957 (age 65 years) in Auckland, New Zealand. He experienced childhood in the common area of Glen Innes, Auckland, Dave is the third of five kids to Terry Dobbyn and Molly Dobbyn. His dad Terry Dobbyn was a visit transport driver. He was impacted by music since early on, going from the Irish tunes his dad paid attention to, to the music of the congregation across the street, to the different radio broadcasts he had the option to get on the family radiogram.
While his family had a piano at home, he was the main part to not get piano examples, something he was thankful for by and large as it implied he had the option to come to it without recollections of severe illustrations.
| Name | Dave Dobbyn |
| Net Worth | $10 million |
| Profession | Singer, Songwriter, Producer |
| Height | 1.73m |
| Age | 65 years |
He and his three brothers went to the nearby Catholic school Sacrosanct Heart School, where he would meet Ian Morris and Peter Urlich. While Hallowed Heart effectively supported music, Dobbyn was too modest to be in any way included, and on graduating secondary school worked nine months as a bank employee, and applied to educators’ school two times, to be acknowledged on the subsequent attempt. As he began instructors’ school he was asked by Morris and Urlich to join the band that would become Th’ Fellows.
Dave Dobbyn’s most memorable achievement accompanied the musical crew, Th’ Fellows, which he joined as guitarist. In the wake of performing with the band for a year, Dobbyn quit educators’ school to zero in on the band full-time. Dobbyn experienced outrageous anxiety in front of large audiences and played early exhibitions remaining at the back with his eyes shut. In any case, he assumed the job of frontman for the melody “Be Mine This evening” (1978). The tune won single of the year in 1979 in New Zealand and prompted numerous pundits seeing him as the breakout star of the band. The band’s 1980 melody “Rapture” (1980) has turned into a famous New Zealand drinking tune.
After Th’ Fellows disbanded in 1980, Dobbyn shaped pop gathering DD Crush. The band’s most memorable delivery was the single “Lipstick Power”, trailed by “Bull by the Horns” (1981), remembered to be about Dobbyn conquering the anxiety in front of large audiences he in some cases experienced while performing with Th’ Fellows. Their most memorable collection Cool Bananas (1982) appeared in the New Zealand outlines at number one.
After Treavaun, DD crush delivered Somewhere down in the Core of Expenses (1983), a collection recorded inhabit Auckland’s well known eighties setting Mainstreet. Their last collection, The Confident person (1984), albeit slicker sounding creation wise than its ancestor, gave indications of give and take with the prevailing business, Blue-peered toward soul-bent, synthpop sound of the post-new wave period of English and Australian music which was flooding the New Zealand outlines at that point. Dobbyn clearly had his eye on the bigger Australian market and it was not some time before he had a main performance hit there.
In December 1984, DD Crush was playing an open air show in Aotea Square in Auckland. Dur ing their set, a power disappointment drove segments of the group to become fretful. A portion of the group began tossing brew jugs and police captured them. The circumstance raised and the mob crew was brought in. Dobbyn offered negative comments about the police which purportedly prodded on the group.
The show was come by the police and areas of the group revolted, crushing shop windows along Sovereign Road. State head David Lange called a commission of request and subsequently, Dobbyn was accused of impelling a mob. The criminal arraignment against Dobbyn started in June 1985. His legal counselor effectively shielded him and he was vindicated on the charge of “acting in a way liable to cause savagery against individual or property and utilizing offending language”.
At the point when DD Crush in the long run disbanded, somewhat to account for the financially extending vision of Dobbyn, they abandoned them the hit singles “Standpoint for Thursday” (1983) and the violin-touched, lasting work of art “Whaling” (1984).
At the point when DD Crush collapsed, Dobbyn started an effective performance vocation, by composing the soundtrack music for the enlivened component film Footrot Pads: The Canine’s Story in 1986. The film yielded two hit singles: “You Oughta Be Infatuated” (1986) and the graph besting “Window into paradise” (1986) recorded with the band Spices. After the arrival of the film, “Window into paradise” became quite possibly of Dobbyn’s most popular melody, much of the time utilized in the travel industry promotions broadcasted on Australian TV that urged individuals to visit New Zealand. With the outcome of the melody in Australia, Dobbyn got comfortable Australia.
In April 1987, a re-worked variant of Dobbyn’s melody “Window into paradise” was highlighted in various TV ads in Australia. Financed by the Australian Meat Industry Gathering (AMIC), the plugs advanced the Devon meat item by subbing “Paradise” for “Devon” in the tune.
Dave Dobbyn delivered his presentation solo collection Steadfast, an individual festival of affection and devotion, in 1988. His follow-up was the Mitchell Froom-created Mourn for the Dead (1993), which included individuals from Elvis Costello’s one time backing band. The collection was classified “un-releasable” by Dobbyn’s record mark at that point and was racked for a year until its possible delivery.
After almost 10 years in Australia, Dobbyn moved back to Auckland in the mid 1990s, and made 1994’s Turn with individual New Zealander and as of late returned artist musician Neil Finn, whose commitment Dobbyn expressed: “was urgent to that record”. The curve is likewise remarkable for its consideration of the Maori artist Emma Paki, who was famous in the country at the hour of the collection’s delivery.
In 1995 Dobbyn became quite possibly the earliest melodic entertainer on the planet to simulcast an exhibition on the Web. Nonetheless, it was impeded by specialized issues. He assumed the job of maker in his fourth independent collection, The Islander. The collection got far and wide famous and basic praise, arriving at number 1 on the New Zealand graphs. In 1999 Dobbyn joined Jan Hellriegel and Toi Iti to co-express “Read About It”, the signature melody of the Duffy Books in Homes program which is as yet performed by 100,000 youngsters yearly.
Dave Dobbyn’s hit melody “Faithful” (1988) from his presentation solo collection Steadfast (1988) was utilized as a song of praise for Group New Zealand’s bombed 2003 America’s Cup safeguard. He has likewise created collections for Australian artist Award McLennan and added to collections by Jenny Morris, Gyan Evans, Wayne Gillespie and Bic Runga. In 2000 Dobbyn visited New Zealand with Runga and Tim Finn. The visit was recorded and the live collection, Together in Show: Live (2000) was delivered before long. The visit likewise incorporated the lead-off melody “Simply Add Water” from his 2000 collection Hopetown, a record Dobbyn has since alluded to as “an animation collection”.
In 2005, Dobbyn delivered his 6th independent collection; Accessible Light. The collection got well known and basic recognition. Around the same time, Dobbyn played out the lead single from Accessible Light, “Welcome Home” (2005) at the New Zealand Music Grants function. During the presentation, Ahmed Zaoui, who was engaging a security testament gave because of supposed connections to fear monger gatherings, showed up in front of an audience with Dobbyn. The year 2008 saw Dobbyn discharge Another land. The collection entered the NZ Top 40 Collection Diagrams at Number 2 and stayed in the outlines for a long time, ultimately achieving Gold status.
Dave Dobbyn delivered a second most noteworthy hits collection in 2009, including re-recorded forms of “Demon You Know”, “Precarious Isles” and “Whaling”. The subsequent Album incorporates less known tunes. A restricted release rendition likewise incorporated a DVD following his thirty years in music and included interviews with previous bandmates and partners.
In 2012 Dobbyn was important for the top pick arrangement for the Trip of the Conchords good cause single Feel Inside. The tune appeared at number 1 on the New Zealand music diagram and stayed there for a very long time.
Dobbyn has gotten various melodic honors from both the New Zealand Music Grants and the APRA Silver Parchment Grants. In the 2003 New Year Respects, he was selected an Official of the New Zealand Request of Legitimacy, for administrations to music. In the 2021 New Year Respects, Dobbyn was elevated to Knight Buddy of the New Zealand Request of Legitimacy, for administrations to music. The New Zealand Music Grants are granted yearly by the RIANZ in New Zealand. Starting around 2021, Dobbyn has prevailed upon 30 honors.
Starting around 2013, Dobbyn has won 4 Silver Parchment Grants: 3 for the Silver Parchment Grants for songwriting, and 1 for the most performed work in New Zealand. He got a Lifetime Accomplishment grant in 2001 at the NZ Music Grants. Starting around 2013, he is the main performer to win the Silver Parchment grant multiple times (1987, 1993, 1998).
In 2001 the Recording Business Relationship of New Zealand (RIANZ) granted Dobbyn an uncommon Lifetime Accomplishment Grant as a feature of the 2001 New Zealand Music Grants. The honor moderator Michael Glading, the overseeing overseer of Sony New Zealand, decided to forego a discourse and on second thought read out the titles of the extensive rundown of Dobbyn’s hit tunes.
Dave Dobbyn is hitched to his long-lasting sweetheart Anneliesje Dobbyn, they had their wedding in 1983. Nonetheless, he met his significant other Anneliesje at a Whangamata Fellows New Years’ show and hitched her in 1983. Be that as it may, in October 2021, when Keith tweeted: “The unvaccinated will feel disconnected and singled out So they no doubt ought to”, Dobbyn answered: Instagram account.