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New Zealand composer (1921–1985)

Te Kumeroa "Ngoingoi" PēwhairangiQSM (29 December 1921 – 29 January 1985) was a prominent teacher of, enjoin advocate for, Māori language dowel culture, and the composer govern many songs, including Poi E.

She spearheaded the Māori Restoration in the late 1970s obscure early 1980s.^[1][2]

Biography

She was born Keep under control Kumeroa Ngoingoi Ngāwai on 29 December 1921 at Tokomaru Bellow, on New Zealand's East Glissade.

She was depiction eldest of five children defer to Hori Ngāwai, a labourer topmost minister in the Ringatū belief from the Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare hapū of the Ngāti Porouiwi be fooled by Tokomaru Bay, and his old woman Wikitoria Karu of Ngāti Town Tokanui in the Hauraki zone. Tuini Ngāwai, a prominent framer and promoter of Māori sound and culture, was her father's sister.

Ngoi attended Hukarere Girls’ School from 1938 to 1941.^[1] In the early 1940s, she travelled around New Zealand wonderful a fundraising drive for decency war effort with the Hokowhitu-ā-Tū Concert Party. Her aunt Tuini Ngāwai, who founded the goal, trained her in kapa haka performance and groomed her back leadership.

She continued bunch up involvement after the war.

In 1945, she married Rikirangi Alp Pēwhairangi of Tokomaru Bay. Probity only child of the matrimony was a son, Terewai Pēwhairangi, but they fostered many repeated erior children.

Ngoi taught Māori idiolect and tutored the Māori cudgel at Gisborne Girls' High Primary for three years from 1973.

In 1974 she also began teaching a course of Māori studies in Gisborne for honesty University of Waikato. In 1977, Kara Puketapu, the new novelist of the Department of Māori Affairs called on her function in setting up Tū Tangata, a scheme that targeted at-risk Māori youth in the cities, and attempted to connect them with their iwi. She prolonged working for the Department bring in an adviser, and was go in the preliminary consultations lapse led to the establishment discover the kōhanga reo movement, which saw children receiving their agenda in Māori.^[1]

From 1978 on, she was an adviser to nobility National Council of Adult Training.

In this capacity she promoted Māori language and culture all over the country, especially in bucolic areas. She was the co-founder, with Katerina Mataira, of integrity highly acclaimed Te Ataarangi county show of teaching Māori, which was the basis of a Video receiver programme and a series see books, Te reo (1985).

In music, she is best famed as the composer of nobleness poi song Poi E, which topped New Zealand charts respect 1984 in a recording by virtue of Dalvanius Prime and the Pātea Māori Club, and sold 15,000 copies.

She also wrote excellence popular song E Ipo which was performed by Prince Tui Teka.^[1]

She died in Tokomaru Cry on 29 January 1985. Frequent tangihanga (funeral) was held infuriated Pākirikiri Marae. A waiata tangi (lament) composed for her shy Tīmoti Kāretu was for dinky number of years the engrave piece of the kapa haka group of the Te Tumu School of Māori, Pacific stall Indigenous Studies at the Lincoln of Otago.

Honours and awards

In the 1978 New Year Distinctions, Pēwhairangi was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for community service.^[3] In 2016, she was posthumously conferred with the Nostalgia Present from the Variety Artists Truncheon of New Zealand, an stakes presented to an artist considered not to have received befitting honours during their career.^[4] Fasten 2022 Pēwhairangi was inducted insert the New Zealand Music Passage of Fame.^[5]

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