WMika X also known by his stage name Mika Haka is a New Zealand Māori singer, performance artist, actor, filmmaker, TV producer and comedian. He has toured across the world performing his cabaret stage shows and music. He has performed ten times at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, most recently with his show "Salon Mika". As an actor, he has been in many TV shows and movies including Shark in the Park, The Piano, Shortland Street and many more. He has released five albums in his music career, including his more well-known albums "Do U like what U see?", "Mika Haka" and "Mika Versus Fashion". The most successful songs that he has released were "I Loved me a man", "Dress to Express" and "Coffee".
WAna Matawhaura Hato was a New Zealand singer of Māori descent. She and her cousin Deane Waretini, Snr. were two of the first New Zealand singers to be commercially recorded.
WHoromona Horo is a New Zealand Māori musician and composer. He is a practitioner of taonga pūoro, the collective term for the traditional musical instruments of the Māori, which include an array of flutes, trumpets and percussive instruments.
WAnika Rose Moa is a New Zealand recording artist and television presenter. Her debut album Thinking Room, was released in September 2001, which reached number one on the New Zealand Albums Chart and provided two Top 5 singles, "Youthful" (2001) and "Falling in Love Again" (2002). Moa competed at the Rockquest songwriting contest in 1998, which led to a recording contract. She is the subject of two documentaries by film-maker Justin Pemberton: 3 Chords and the Truth: the Anika Moa Story (2003), detailing her signing to a record label and the release of Thinking Room, and In Bed with Anika Moa (2010) on her later career.
WSir Howard Leslie Morrison was a New Zealand entertainer. From 1964 until his death in 2009 he was one of New Zealand's leading television and concert performers.
WRihi Puhiwahine Te Rangi-hirawea (8.02.1906) was a New Zealand composer of waiata. Of Māori descent, she identified with the Ngati Maniapoto and Ngati Tuwharetoa iwi. She was born in Taringamotu River, King Country, New Zealand.
WSir John Edward Rowles is a New Zealand singer. He was most popular in the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, and he is best known in New Zealand for his song from 1970, "Cheryl Moana Marie", which he wrote about his younger sister.
WBriolette Kah Bic Runga, recording as Bic Runga, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist pop artist. Her first three studio albums debuted at number one on the New Zealand Top 40 Album charts. Runga has also found success internationally in Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom with her song "Sway".
WBoh Runga is a New Zealand recording artist and was the lead singer and guitarist in New Zealand rock band Stellar. Boh is the older sister of Bic Runga and Pearl Runga who are also musicians.
WEmily Jean Rawei, known by the stage name Hine Taimoa, was a New Zealand Māori lecturer and singer, with her husband, Wherahiko Francis Rawei, and other family members. The family toured internationally from the 1890s through the 1910s to demonstrate and speak on Māori culture.
WDallas Tamaira or as he is better known, Joe Dukie, is the vocalist for the New Zealand group Fat Freddy's Drop. His stage name is inspired from his father Joe, also a singer, and his grandfather, a musician nicknamed Dukie after Duke Ellington. Tamaira is Māori.
WMahinārangi Tocker was a singer-songwriter from New Zealand.
WWaiora is a trio of indigenous Māori musicians from New Zealand.