OMC

OMC, or Otara Millionaires Club, was a music group from Auckland, New Zealand best known for their 1996 hit "How Bizarre". The band consisted of Pauly Fuemana, who was the public face of the band and its primary performer, and Alan Jansson who co-wrote all of the tracks and handling most of the arrangement and production duties in the studio.

OMC released the single "How Bizarre" in New Zealand in late 1995 which reached number one in early 1996 and stayed there for three weeks and sold over 35,000 copies in New Zealand. "How Bizarre" went to number one in Australia for five weeks, sold over 150,000 singles, and was certified as a platinum single. The single went to number 5 in the UK Singles Chart. The song spent 32 weeks on Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 chart which made OMC the first New Zealand artist to reach the number one spot in a Billboard chart.

In 1997, OMC's debut album, How Bizarre, was released and the album went on to sell in excess of a million copies in the United States alone, as well as charting in many other countries. Between 1995 and 2000, OMC is estimated to have sold between three and four million records worldwide.

"How Bizarre" was followed by the singles "Land of Plenty", "Right On" and "On The Run" which was a minor international hit in the Netherlands and the UK. By 1998, Fuemana and Jansson had had a falling out over royalties, which ended up in court. After a settlement, it was agreed Fuemana could continue to use the duo's name as a solo artist.

In January 2010, Pauly Fuemana died at North Shore Hospital in Auckland. "How Bizarre" briefly topped the charts again in New Zealand following news of his death