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A love ballad, the song's music video celebrates his marriage to his partner Lou Tyson. The song debuted at number 14 on the New Zealand Artist Singles chart and number 8 on the Hot Singles chart. By the end of 2021, it was the 5th most successful Te Reo Māori song of the year in New Zealand.
Due to the success of the project, Waiata / Anthems became an annual project, where original songs and songs re-recorded in te reo Māori would be released, coinciding with Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. [16] Some of the most successful songs from 2021 included "35" by Ka Hao featuring Rob Ruha, and "Pepeha" by Six60.
te reo the Māori language (literally, 'the language') tiki stylised representation of a male human, found in Māori artwork and carving tino rangatiratanga a political term, sometimes translated as "chieftainship," but most accurately rendered as "(complete) sovereign authority", a right promised to Māori in the Treaty of Waitangi tukutuku
Māori (Māori: [ˈmaːɔɾi] ⓘ; endonym: te reo Māori 'the Māori language', commonly shortened to te reo) is an Eastern Polynesian language and the language of the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand.
"Pepeha" is the band's second song to be recorded in Te Reo Māori, and was released as a single in 2021 to coincide with Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. The song was written by Six60 band members Marlon Gerbes and Matiu Walters, alongside Te Reo experts Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper (a member of the Black Quartet), Jeremy Tātere MacLeod and Sir Tīmoti ...
The song was released to coincide with Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, and was one of the 27 songs produced for the 2021 Waiata Anthems Week, a project to promote popular music sung in Māori. [8] The song first gained popularity during the week when it was used for a popular dance on TikTok. [9]
The resulting album, Ngā Mata o te Ariki Tāwhirimātea, was released on July 17, 2020. Rika joined the inaugural Top 10 Te Reo Māori Singles chart released by Recorded Music NZ on June 21, 2021, with her songs "Waitī, Waitā" at number 6 and "Hiwa-i-te-Rangi" at number 8. [10]
"Love on the Run" was released as a single on 4 June 2021, through Sony Music Entertainment New Zealand. [4] [5] The band translated the song into Māori with help from Tawaroa Kawana of the band Maimoa, [6] and released this version under the name "He Aroha Hinemoa" during Te Wiki o te Reo Māori in September 2021. [7]