Reggie Coutts

Reginald Adam Coutts (born 2nd July 1974) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter, best known for being a member of the platinum-selling boy band Deja Vu, as one of two tenor singers in the group alongside James Blanton.

Early life
Coutts was born at in, and christened at. His mother, Ann-Marie Coutts, was born in, and his father, Simon Cwele, was a Zulu man from ,. His father, a refugee of South Africa's apartheid system, had moved to to seek work. Cwele and Ann-Marie met in Christchurch in September 1973, and were in a relationship for a few months, until Cwele died in a car accident. Ann-Marie soon found out she was pregnant, and, after Coutts was born, she moved with her baby to a home for unmarried mothers, where he was baptised on 10th August. Though he suffered no serious racism, Coutts felt different from his school-mates due to being mixed-race and was more self-conscious and introverted.