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Dawn R aid’s Brotha D ‘MY W IFE SAVED MY LIFE’

If someone had told a teenage Danny Leaoasavai’i – best known as Dawn Raid founder and rapper Brotha D – that he would mark his 50th birthday as a doting dad, dedicated husband and passionate community worker, the hip-hop star would have likely laughed in disbelief.

The musician’s youth was derailed by grief, domestic violence and trouble with the law – and it took a man’s death, which saw his brother imprisoned for murder, for him to turn his life around.

“We were bad people,” Danny admits in a raw interview with , sitting alongside his wife, former Black Ferns rugby star Adrianne (née Lili’i), and their children, Chrissy-Jon, 13, and Elijah, 10. “I was a

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