# CHAII · Producer, Songwriter, Mixing Engineer · OBRA

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CHAII · CHAII (Mona Sanei) is a Persian-New Zealand rapper, songwriter, producer and audio engineer based in Auckland. Born in Iran and raised in New Zealand, she studied sound eng

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## CHAII

Producer ·   Songwriter ·   Mixing Engineer

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# CHAII

PRODUCER ·   SONGWRITER ·   MIXING ENGINEER

[SPOTIFY](https://open.spotify.com/artist/5QYfFIxVcsJtK600MxqtpF) [WEB](https://chaiimusic.com/)

CHAII (Mona Sanei) is a Persian-New Zealand rapper, songwriter, producer and audio engineer based in Auckland. Born in Iran and raised in New Zealand, she studied sound engineering at SAE Institute Auckland and fuses Persian musical traditions with hip-hop, electronica and alt-pop, producing and engineering her own records. She was named New Zealand's first Spotify RADAR artist, released the EPs 'Lightswitch' (2020) and 'Pineapple Pizza' (2021) and her debut album 'Safar' (2024), and earned 2025 Aotearoa Music Awards nominations for Best Electronic Artist, Album of the Year and Single of the Year. Her music has featured in films, TV and major brand campaigns, with '(Can't Get You) Off My Mind' passing 6 million streams. She continues to release, with the 2026 single 'Ride Or Die'.

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CHAII Portrait · 2020–2024

▸ VERIFIED STREAMS 13.646.581 TOTAL · 14M

17 DAYS · Total

Releases 8

Years active 2020–2024

This week  · ▲ 0.1% · 2K/day

Streams this week +13.663 14M TOTAL

Best day +48K Aug 15

Spotify +14K 100% OF TOTAL · 7D

YouTube — 0% OF TOTAL · 7D

SoundCloud — 0% OF TOTAL · 7D

FASTEST GROWING
(Can’t Get You) Off My Mind ▲ 0.3%  Nobody Know ▲ 0.1%  WOW (Look At Me) ▲ 0.2%

Trending this week  · 5 climbing

Top tracks  · Ranked by streams · 8

Collaborators  · 1 artists

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CHAII

8 tracks · 13.6M

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## OBRA BY CHAII

8 RELEASES

ROLE

### 2024

2 releases

### 2021

3 releases

### 2020

3 releases

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Bio

CHAII (Mona Sanei) is a Persian-New Zealand rapper, songwriter, producer and audio engineer based in Auckland. Born in Iran and raised in New Zealand, she studied sound engineering at SAE Institute Auckland and fuses Persian musical traditions with hip-hop, electronica and alt-pop, producing and engineering her own records. She was named New Zealand's first Spotify RADAR artist, released the EPs 'Lightswitch' (2020) and 'Pineapple Pizza' (2021) and her debut album 'Safar' (2024), and earned 2025 Aotearoa Music Awards nominations for Best Electronic Artist, Album of the Year and Single of the Year. Her music has featured in films, TV and major brand campaigns, with '(Can't Get You) Off My Mind' passing 6 million streams. She continues to release, with the 2026 single 'Ride Or Die'.

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