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Hiwa-i-te-rangi, also known just as Hiwa, is the youngest of Matariki's children and was considered the "wishing star": Māori would rest their hopes and desires on Hiwa, similar to "wishing upon a star", and if it appeared to shine bright and clear on the first viewing of Matariki those individual and collective wishes were likely to be answered.
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]
Heretaunga Tamatea is a Māori iwi of New Zealand.In a 2014 settlement with the government, Heretaunga Tamatea was described as a settling group, including: Ngāi Tahu ki Takapau, Ngāi Tamaterā, Ngāi Te Ao, Ngāi Te Hauapu, Ngāi Te Hurihanga-i-te-rangi, Ngāi Te Kīkiri o te Rangi, Ngāi Te Oatua, Ngāi Te Rangikoianake I and II, Ngāi Te Rangitekahutia I and II, Ngāi Te Rangitotohu (also ...
Fanny Rose Howie (née Porter or Poata; 11 January 1868 – 20 May 1916), also known by her stage name Te Rangi Pai, was a New Zealand singer and composer. Of Māori descent, she identified with the iwi of Ngāti Porou and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui .
Tama-te-rangi now led a war party against Tu-te-kohi to get revenge for his family's earlier defeat and expulsion from the Tūranga region. The force gathered at Te Mania in Marumaru, but when they were about to depart, Tama-te-rangi would not come out to perform the tohi ritual, without which the war party could not set out.
Tamamutu was the oldest son of Te Rangi-ita and Waitapu. [1] Through his father, Te Rangi-ita, he was a descendant of Tūwharetoa i te Aupōuri. [2] His mother was the daughter of Te Ata-inutai of Ngāti Raukawa, through whom he was a descendant of Hoturoa, captain of the Tainui canoe. [3]
An instrumental version of "Hine E Hine" was used from 1975 to 1994 as TV2's closedown song, which accompanied a cartoon featuring the Goodnight Kiwi.[3] [4] [5] [6]It was the opening song on Kiri Te Kanawa's 1999 album Maori Songs.
Matewa Media was formed by Tweedie Waititi and Chelsea Winstanley in 2017 after seeing how popular the 2016 film Moana was with Winstanley's children. With the help of Waititi's cousin and Winstanley's husband Taika Waititi, who wrote the initial screenplay of Moana and was at the time working on Thor: Ragnarok, they secured the dubbing rights from Disney.