{"id":143712,"date":"2025-11-17T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/143712\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:54:09","slug":"makayla-and-haami-score-big-at-waiata-maori-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/143712\/","title":{"rendered":"Makayla and Haami score big at Waiata M\u0101ori Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Corrella.Corrella. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

His song T\u016b, featuring Hone Harawira and footage of the Toit\u016b Te Tiriti h\u012bkoi, earned the best music video by a M\u0101ori artist award.<\/p>\n

Palmerston North-born TAWAZ, last year\u2019s best M\u0101ori artist at the Aotearoa Music Awards, doubled down with wins for best song by a M\u0101ori artist and radio airplay song of the year (te reo M\u0101ori).<\/p>\n

\u014cp\u014dtiki reggae\/roots musician Hori Shaw picked up radio airplay song of the year by a M\u0101ori artist, while the emerging artist over 25 award was shared by Shane Walker, Ngatainui Ratu and Rawhitiroa.<\/p>\n

Before the ceremony, organisers announced that the late producer Wyn Anania would receive the iconic contribution to music industry award.<\/p>\n

\"TipeneTipene Harmer’s T\u016b music video was one of the big winners of the night. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

\u201cWyn Anania\u2019s exceptional contributions to the music industry exemplify his passion for M\u0101ori culture and his dedication to preserving te reo M\u0101ori,\u201d a spokesperson for the Waiata M\u0101ori Music Awards Trust said.<\/p>\n

Singer and composer Toni Huata, who died earlier this year, was honoured with the lifetime achievement award.<\/p>\n

Active since the late 90s, Huata\u2019s career took flight through her collaboration with Charles Te Ahukaram\u016b Royal, whose album He Tohu Mauriora was the first M\u0101ori language music recorded digitally.<\/p>\n

Since then, her work with artists like George Nepia III and Warren Maxwell has continued to leave its mark on M\u0101ori music and performance.<\/p>\n

–RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corrella. Photo \/ Supplied His song T\u016b, featuring Hone Harawira and footage of the Toit\u016b Te Tiriti h\u012bkoi,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5808,427,26444,6971,53104,82351,5911,82357,93,82347,17545,82358,61,82353,60,82346,82350,278,82356,82352,1180,82348,19695,9315,82354,82349,82355,5906],"class_list":["post-143712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-5808","tag-and","tag-at","tag-awards","tag-away","tag-bays","tag-big","tag-biggest","tag-entertainment","tag-haami","tag-hawkes","tag-honours","tag-ie","tag-invercargill","tag-ireland","tag-makayla","tag-mori","tag-music","tag-nights","tag-purcellmainini","tag-rising","tag-score","tag-singer","tag-star","tag-tuari","tag-waiata","tag-walked","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}