Waiata

Tūwhitia Te Hopo written by Te Kuru o Te Marama Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rangitihi) and performed by Troy Kingi (Te Arawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) is a call for all to embrace and cherish te reo as the indigenous language of Aotearoa.

‘He Ao Hou’, was written during New Zealand’s Covid-19 level 4 lockdown in 2020 and is intended to offer hope for the future. The title, which means “A New World”, focuses on the future, a world changed forever by the pandemic.

'Pōteretere' is a waiata about how we sometimes lose our way, lose touch with whānau, how some of us may not know much about our whakapapa. The journey of searching for our love ones and knowledge of where we belong and to whom we belong.

Filmed on February 22, 2020 at Western Springs stadium, Auckland, New Zealand. Featuring Ngā Tūmanako kapa haka group. The composer of the haka ‘Ka Mate’ is Te Rauparaha, a chief of Ngāti Toa Rangatira

Troy (Te Arawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) is an actor and an multi-award-winning, multi-genre musician originally from Rotorua and Te Kaha.