Kito & Reija Lee | |
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 Playing in Atlanta, Georgia on 9 August 2013. | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Perth, Western Australia |
| Genres | Electropop, dream pop [1] [2] |
| Years active | 2009–2015 |
| Labels | Payday, Mad Decent |
| Members | Maaike Kito Lebbing Reija Lee Thomas |
| Website | www |
Kito & Reija Lee were an Australian electropop duo formed in 2009 in Perth, Western Australia, and active until 2015. They released a few singles and two EPs. [3]
Maaike Kito Lebbing and Reija Lee Thomas met as teenagers and began working together as the duo Kito & Reija Lee in September 2009. [4] Their break out track, "Sweet Talk", was featured in Victoria's Secret 2010 world-wide campaign, and reached number six hundred and forty eight on the iTunes Dance Music charts. [5] [6] Their second EP, II, was released on 22 July 2014. [7] [8]
The first single of the EP II, "Starting Line", debuted 18 March 2014. [9] Earmilk hailed as it "a brand new project which mixes sparkling melodies with Reija's standout vocals, almost putting one under hypnosis on first listen." [10] The second single, "WORD$", was released in August 2014. [11]
| Title | Details |
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| Sweet Talk EP |
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| II |
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| II: The Remixes |
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| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||||
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| US Bubb. [12] | |||||||||||||
| "Sweet Talk" | 2011 | 18 | Sweet Talk EP | ||||||||||
| "Velma Kelly" (as Faux No) | 2012 | — | Non-album single | ||||||||||
| "Starting Line" | 2014 | — | II | ||||||||||
| "Word$" (featuring Zebra Katz) | — | ||||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart, or were not released in this territory. | |||||||||||||
| Title | Year | Other artists | Album |
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| "Pacifica (Kito & Reija Lee Vocal Remix)" | 2011 | Spor | — |
| "King Shit" | 2014 | Big Boi, T.I., Ludacris | Rap Game, Vol. 2 (The Takeover) |
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