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Grant Kearney (born 28 March 1969) is a DJ and producer from Auckland, New Zealand. He started his career in music in 1987 in a rap group from West Auckland called Total Effect. He co-launched New Zealand's first dance party called The Brain in 1990. His Lagered CDs were New Zealand's highest selling mix CD series. Sample Gee is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's most popular DJs.

Early Life
Sample Gee discovered his passion for music XXXXXX. By his early teens he had so many records he bought an old record store shelving unit to hold them, and by 16 the 600 -album rack was full. He was given his first opportunity to DJ when the resident DJ at West Auckland’s Timbucktoo nightclub called in sick, and started DJing regularly from then on at clubs including DTM (Don't Tell Mama) on K'Rd and The Box and Cause Celebre on High Street.

1987-1996
In 1987 Sample Gee was a founding member and made beats for one of New Zealand's first rap acts, Total Effect. Total Effect regularly performed with Upper Hutt Posse at some of Auckland's first ever live rap shows at The Powerstation and supported international acts such as Redhead Kingpin and Eternal. Sample Gee produced most of the tracks on the first rap compilation ever released in NZ "AK '89 In Love With These Rhymes" for artists such as Semi MCs and The Homeboyz. He also played keyboards on early singles from Enemy Productions, and MC Slam and DJ Jam - produced by the legendary Alan Jansson (OMC, Sisters Underground). By early 1990 Grant was signed to Sony Music as part of The Chain Gang (along with Alan Jansson and MC Boy C from Total Effect). The Chain Gang had two Top 20 singles in New Zealand with "Jump" The Chain Gang and "Break The Beat" The Chain Gang.

In 1990 Grant and long time associate Sam Hill opened Bassline Records on O'Connell Street in Auckland. This was New Zealand’s first purely dance music store and became a hub for those in Auckland’s emerging dance culture. Grant and Sam launched their rave event The Brain in December 1991 at DTM on K'Rd. The Brain continued for the next 10 years with over 50 events and they brought international DJs over to play: DJs Grooverider, Nightraver, DJ Trevor, Vinylgroover, DJ Vegas, MC Bee (Ultimate Buzz), and Spellbound.

Sample Gee was asked to host 'The Pulse' a weekly dance music TV show on Auckland's Max TV in 1994, until it was closed down by TVNZ in December 1997. It was during his time at Max TV that Lagered was created following calls to the show and public requests for songs he played.

1996-2001
Lagered! was marketed and released by Universal Music as “14 Up For It Indie Dance Anthems” and over 5000 copies. Lagered weekender club events started at The Powerstation in XXXXX 199X. 2Lagered! followed in 1997 with a national TV campaign and sold Platinum. Total Lagered album sales reached 150,000 across 9 CD releases and are credited as being the highest selling mix CD series in New Zealand. Lagered Cloud Nine was the final album in the series released in New Zealand and Australia in April 2003. In 1997 Sample Gee was the first DJ to achieve certified Gold sales for a mix CD in New Zealand for 2Lagered. Then in 1998 he achieved certified Platinum sales for his Lagered 3 mix CD.

From 1998 until 2003 Sample Gee had a nationally syndicated dance music mix show every Saturday night on New Zealand radio station ZM called "The ZM Clubmix". His other album releases include Chemistry (with Sam Hill) in 2001, Cue in 2000 and ZM:Clubmix 001 in 1998 and ZM:Clubmix 002 in 2000. His mix albums have seen Grant collect 9 Gold and 4 Platinum album sales awards in New Zealand.

2001-2004
In November 2001 Grant moved to Sydney to head up Universal Music Australia’s new dance music division Umusic. There he mixed albums including Mint Essential House Music (Vols 1-4), Cream Spring 2002, Cream Trance Anthems, Cranking Hard Trance, Trance Destinations, Absolute, and Club UK and sold throughout Australasia. Between 2001-2003 he was the Australasian resident DJ for UK Superclub CREAM and mixed the Cream CDs for that market. In 2003 he was publicly voted #5 DJ in Australia in the Pioneer In The Mix Top 50 DJs poll - the highest ranking ever achieved by a New Zealander.

2004-Present
Sample Gee returned home continuing to promote club events including Mint, R&B Superclub, Bootymash and Moving House, and DJing at venues throughout New Zealand. From 2005-200X he hosted a Friday night radio show on George FM called XXXXXX. In recent years Sample Gee brought his Lagered dance party brand back headlining at The Studio on K'Rd in October 2018.

During his DJ career Sample Gee performed alongside Paul Oakenfold, Judge Jules, Sonique, Justin Robertson, Andy Weatherall, Steve Lee, Mrs Wood, Matt Hardwick, The Crystal Method, Vinylgroover & Marley, DJ Supreme, Trevor Reilly, Nightraver, Hixxy, Lenny Dee, M People, The Grid, Fatboy Slim, Tom Wax, Al McKenzie (D-Ream), Daydream, Spellbound, MC Bee and Grooverider.

Music Production
Grant has recorded under the names: The Deckchairs, The Shaolin Orchestra, Tecoma, Sample Gee Project, Cyprian and Zander. He has remixed singles for Ultrasonic "Angels" (Zander Club Mix), Slinkee Minx "Summer Rain" (Zander Radio Edit) (Top 5 Australian National singles chart) and Nicolette "Harden Up" Jelly v Sample Gee Club Mix (released on Dinky in Australia and AATW in the UK), and produced and remixed Zander feat Alexis Hart "What's Up".