{"id":134333,"date":"2025-11-14T07:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/134333\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:55:08","slug":"live-watch-the-2025-waiata-maori-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/134333\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Watch the 2025 Waiata M\u0101ori Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two iconic figures in M\u0101ori music, Wyn Anania and Toni Huata, will be recognised at the awards. The late producer Wyn Anania will be honoured with the Iconic Contribution to Music Industry Award, while s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/541431\/aotearoa-music-legend-toni-huata-dies\" class=\"visited:text-foreground-secondary visited:decoration-stroke-link underline-brand-hover hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inger and composer Toni Huata<\/a>, who died earlier this year, will be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n<p>The theme for this year&#8217;s awards, which are now in their 18th year, is Toit\u016b te Reo \u2013 Titiro Whakaroto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two iconic figures in M\u0101ori music, Wyn Anania and Toni Huata, will be recognised at the awards. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-134333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}