Ngoi pewhairangi biography of george

New Zealand composer (–)

Te Kumeroa "Ngoingoi" PēwhairangiQSM (29 December – 29 January ) was a prominent teacher of, and advocate for, Māori language and culture, and the composer of many songs, including Poi E.

Te Kumeroa "Ngoingoi" Pēwhairangi, QSM (29 December 29 January ) was a prominent teacher of, and advocate for, Māori language and culture.

Te Kumeroa "Ngoingoi" Pēwhairangi, QSM (29 December 29 January ) was a prominent teacher of, and advocate for, Māori language and culture.

This is the biography of Ngoingoi Pewhairangi, a loved and respected M?ori leader who was born on the cusp of te ao kohatu (the old M?ori world) and the.

Brief biography of Ngoi Pewhairangi, daughter of Wikitoria Te Karu and George Ngawai of Ngati Porou.

Tribute to the late Ngoi Pewhairangi.

An unsung legend of Māori songwriting, Tuini Ngāwai's talents have been sung by many, and her songs in te reo – over of them – continue to be sung.

She spearheaded the Māori Renaissance in the late s and early s.^[1][2]

Biography

She was born Te Kumeroa Ngoingoi Ngāwai on 29 December at Tokomaru Bay, on New Zealand's East Coast.

She was the eldest of five children of Hori Ngāwai, a labourer and minister in the Ringatū faith from the Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare hapū of the Ngāti Porouiwi of Tokomaru Bay, and his wife Wikitoria Karu of Ngāti Tara Tokanui in the Hauraki region.

Tuini Ngāwai, a prominent composer and promoter of Māori language and culture, was her father's sister.

Ngoi attended Hukarere Girls’ School from to ^[1] In the early s, she travelled around New Zealand in a fundraising drive for the war effort with the Hokowhitu-ā-Tū Concert Party.

Her aunt