4/14/08

Mahinarangi


Today the world lost a great songwriter, Mahinarangi Tocker.

A New Zealand Maori of Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Tuwharetoa, and Tainui-Ngati Maniapoto (as well as Hebrew and Celtic) ancestry, Mahinarangi was a unique and prolific yet under-appreciated, artist.




Please see my earlier post on Maori women songwriters:

http://sociomusicology.blogspot.com/2008/02/maori-women-songwriters_02.html


Other links:

http://www.kiwifolk.com/blog/2008/04/mahinarangi-tocker-mnzom-1956-2008.html

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00391.htm

http://www.muzic.net.nz/artists/757.html

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10504255


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