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In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Rika wrote nine songs inspired by the nine stars of Matariki, which she learned about from Māori astronomer Rangi Mātāmua. Working with new producers for the first time, including Tiki Taane, the new songs intended to connect the stars and the gods to contemporary life in Aotearoa. [9]
Matariki Whatarau is a New Zealand actor and musician. Whatarau is also a founding member of Māori showband the Modern Māori Quartet. [1] He co-wrote and performed songs, with the other band members, for the Modern Māori Quartet's debut album That's Us! (2017). [2] Whatarau appeared on the television programmes, Go Girls and Find me a Māori ...
Matariki is the Māori name for the cluster of stars known to Western astronomers as the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus. Matariki is a shortened version of Ngā mata o te ariki o Tāwhirimātea, "the eyes of the god Tāwhirimātea". [1]
In the early 2000s Hakaraia wrote a book for adult readers and another for children about Matariki, a Māori celebration of the new year. In the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours , Hakaraia was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit , for services to the film and media industries.
He composed or wrote lyrics for hundreds of songs, including classics such as Te Aroha (1983), and Moe, moe mai rā adapted from the Welsh lullaby Suo Gân, and others for special occasions including one in memory of Sir Archie Taiaroa. [4] [5] He was the leader of the kapa haka groups Te Matapihi and Te Taikura o te Awa Tupua. [4] [6]
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