Māori Waiata

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Waiata is the Māori song tradition that runs from pre-colonial chant and oriori through the post-war showband era, the 1990s te reo revival, and the contemporary R&B and pop singers who write in the language. The lane covers Howard Morrison's quartet, Hirini Melbourne's classroom waiata that taught a generation to sing in te reo, Moana Maniapoto's electronic fusion, and the modern wave of singers like TEEKS who put indigenous language at the centre of national pop.

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