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Ruby Solly

Kai Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha

Ruby Solly is a Kai Tahu musician, taonga puoro practitioner, music therapist and writer living in Wellington. She has playe...

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Maree Sheehan

Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato, Ngāti Tūwharetoa

Maree Sheehan made her mark as a singer/songwriter in the 1990s, and a number of her singles reached the Kiwi t...

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Te Awanui Reeder

Ngāti Raukawa, Ngai Te Rangi, Ngai Pōtiki and Ngāti Whakaue)

Te Awanui Reeder, also known as Awa, is an award winning composer, performer, musician and ra...

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Tina Cross

Te Aupouri, Ngāti Porou

Tina Cross ONZM has been part of NZ pop culture history since she took Nothing But Dreams to the winners’ podium at the Pacific ...

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Mihirangi

Ngāti Whātua

Mihirangi Fleming is a solo artist of contemporary originals and soulful dance world roots with a rare performance style. Creating her own ba...

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Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper

Mahuia holds a Masters of Music in violin performance, and after finishing his studies in Sydney he came home to set up shop as a composer/producer. He curre...

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Aja Wairere Ropata

Ngāti Raukawa, Te Atiawa ki Whakarongotai, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Porou.

Grounded and powerful musician Aja is spirited by the everlasting, the ele...

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Francis Kora

Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Pūkeko

Originally hailing from Whakatane, four musical brothers from the Kora family—Laughton, Francis, Stuart and Brad—began playing to...

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Reti Hedley

Ngāti Tūwharetoa

Reti was mentored by his late mother Rangiiria Hedley. Rangiiria was a renowned taonga pūoro artist and lecturer at the university of Wai...

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Eugene Temara

Ngāi Tūhoe, Raukawa ki Wharepuhunga, Waikato, Te Arawa.

As an original founding member with Origin Roots Aotearoa, Eugene Temara leads as front man and si...