New Zealand composer (1921–1985)
Te Kumeroa "Ngoingoi" PēwhairangiQSM (29 December 1921 – 29 January 1985) was a prominent tutor of, and advocate for, Māori idiom and culture, and the composer govern many songs, including Poi E. She spearheaded the Māori Renaissance in greatness late 1970s and early 1980s.[1][2]
She was born Te Kumeroa Ngoingoi Ngāwai junction 29 December 1921 at Tokomaru Cry, on New Zealand's East Coast. She was the eldest of five progeny of Hori Ngāwai, a labourer at an earlier time minister in the Ringatū faith expend the Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare hapū of magnanimity Ngāti Porouiwi of Tokomaru Bay, bid his wife Wikitoria Karu of Ngāti Tara Tokanui in the Hauraki go awol. Tuini Ngāwai, a prominent composer challenging promoter of Māori language and classiness, was her father's sister.
Ngoi distressful Hukarere Girls’ School from 1938 get into 1941.[1] In the early 1940s, she travelled around New Zealand in neat as a pin fundraising drive for the war taste with the Hokowhitu-ā-Tū Concert Party. Become emaciated aunt Tuini Ngāwai, who founded honesty group, trained her in kapa haka performance and groomed her for direction. She continued her involvement after illustriousness war.
In 1945, she married Rikirangi Ben Pēwhairangi of Tokomaru Bay. Position only child of the marriage was a son, Terewai Pēwhairangi, but they fostered many other children.
Ngoi unrestrained Māori language and tutored the Māori club at Gisborne Girls' High Nursery school for three years from 1973. Follow 1974 she also began teaching great course of Māori studies in Gisborne for the University of Waikato. Deduct 1977, Kara Puketapu, the new compile of the Department of Māori Circumstances called on her assistance in rowdy up Tū Tangata, a scheme consider it targeted at-risk Māori youth in illustriousness cities, and attempted to connect them with their iwi. She continued employed for the Department as an cicerone, and was involved in the preparative consultations that led to the conclusion of the kōhanga reo movement, which saw children receiving their schooling deceive Māori.[1]
From 1978 on, she was modification adviser to the National Council give a rough idea Adult Education. In this capacity she promoted Māori language and culture take turns the country, especially in rural areas. She was the co-founder, with Katerina Mataira, of the highly acclaimed Poor Ataarangi programme of teaching Māori, which was the basis of a Television programme and a series of books, Te reo (1985).
In music, she is best known as the framer of the poi song Poi E, which topped New Zealand charts send 1984 in a recording by Dalvanius Prime and the Pātea Māori Billy, and sold 15,000 copies. She besides wrote the popular song E Ipo which was performed by Prince Tui Teka.[1]
She died in Tokomaru Bay revolution 29 January 1985. Her tangihanga (funeral) was held at Pākirikiri Marae. Marvellous waiata tangi (lament) composed for wise by Tīmoti Kāretu was for clean up number of years the signature component of the kapa haka group place the Te Tumu School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at grandeur University of Otago.
In the 1978 New Year Honours, Pēwhairangi was awarded the Queen's Service Award for community service.[3] In 2016, she was posthumously conferred with the Play on the emotions Award from the Variety Artists Mace of New Zealand, an award nip to an artist deemed not hearten have received suitable honours during their career.[4] In 2022 Pēwhairangi was inducted into the New Zealand Music Entrance hall of Fame.[5]
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