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Ngoi Pēwhairangi
New Zealand composer (–)
Te Kumeroa "Ngoingoi" PēwhairangiQSM (29 December – 29 January ) was a prominent teacher of, and advocate for, Māori language and culture, and the composer of many songs, including Poi E.
She spearheaded the Māori Renaissance in the late s and early s.[1][2]
Biography
She was born Te Kumeroa Ngoingoi Ngāwai on 29 December at Tokomaru Bay, on New Zealand's East Coast.
She was the eldest of five children of Hori Ngāwai, a labourer and minister in the Ringatū faith from the Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare hapū of the Ngāti Porouiwi of Tokomaru Bay, and his wife Wikitoria Karu of Ngāti Tara Tokanui in the Hauraki region.
Tuini Ngāwai, a prominent composer and promoter of Māori language and culture, was her father's sister.
Ngoi attended Hukarere Girls’ School from to [1] In the early s, she travelled around New Zealand in a fundraising drive for the war effort with the Hokowhitu-ā-Tū Concert Party.
Her aunt