Music News - Winners Announced for the 2018 Waiata Maori Music Awards: Rob Ruha Dominates The Night With Four Awards
15 September 2018 - 0 Comments
Internationally acclaimed haka soul musician Rob Ruha walked away with four trophies from his seven nominations at the 11th annual Waiata Maori Music Awards which were held in Hastings on Friday. Ruha’s wins for his latest album Survivance included Best Maori Male Solo Artist | Manu Tioriori Tane Autaia, Best Maori Traditional Album | Kopae Moteatea Hira, Best Maori Urban Artist | Kaipuoro Maori-Noho-Taone Autaia and Best Song by a Maori Artist | Waiata Maori for Kalega.
Trailblazing songstress Ria Hall, who released her pop album Rules of Engagement last year, was named Best Maori Female Solo Artist | Manu Tioriori Wahine Autaia and singer/songwriter Seth Haapu won the Best Maori Songwriter | Kaitito Waiata Maori Autaia for his track New Wave. Elsewhere, Aotearoa’s heaviest metallers, Alien Weaponry, were awarded Best Music Video by a Maori Artist | Ataata Maori Hira o te Tau for their powerful single Kai Tangata.
Other award winners on the night included last year’s award winning Male Solo Artist Troy Kingi who this year took out the title for Best Maori Pop Album | Kaipuoru Maori for Shake That Skinny Ass All the Way To Zygertron while Wellington band Tomorrow People were awarded Best Roots, Reggae | Kopaeroa Autaia Roots, Reggae for their album BBQ Reggae which went number one earlier this year, knocking Ed Sheeran off the top of the Kiwi album charts.
For the second year in a row, the unstoppable Six60 took out Radio Airplay Song of the Year by a Maori Artist | Kopae-Irirangi Kaipuoro Maori o te Tau, this year for their single Don’t Give It Up and Maori pop sensation Maimoa were awarded Radio Airplay Song of the Year by a Maori Artist in Te Reo Maori | Kopae-Irirangi Kaipuoro Reo Maori o te Tau for their iconic pop hit Wairua.
Two Emerging Artists were also named by the awards this year: singer and rapper Ngatai Waretini won the Emerging Artist in the Under 25 category and Arona Maui was awarded in the Over 25 category for his soulful vocals.
There were also dual award honoured this year as Keepers of Tradition | Kaitiaka Tikanga Puoro: renowned ta moko artist, Gisborne-based Arts Foundation Laureate Derek Lardelli who is very involved in kapa haka and who previously coached and led East Coast kapa haka group Whangara-mai-Tawhiti to become supreme winner at the national kapa haka championship; and Dame Georgina Kingi DNZM QSO, esteemed New Zealand educator and principal of Napier's St Joseph's Maori Girls' College.
Elsewhere, legendary Maori showband troubadour Monty Cowan was honoured with a special award for his Lifetime Contribution to Maori Music | Mauriora o Te Ao Puoro Maori, the late House of Shem lead singer Carl Perkins was posthumously awarded the Music Industry Award | Ahumahi Puoro and Ngatai Huata was granted the Music Composers Award (Historical) | Te Puna o te ki o nehe.
The 2018 Waiata Maori Music Awards winners are:
Best Maori Traditional
Album | Kopae Moeatea Hira
Rob Ruha – Survivance
Best Maori Pop Album |
Kaipuoru Maori Autaia
Troy Kingi - Shake That
Skinny Ass All the Way to Zygertron
Radio Airplay Song of
the Year by a Maori Artist in Te Reo Maori Award | Kopae-Irirangi Kaipuoru Reo
Maori o te Tau
Maimoa - Wairua
Radio Airplay Song of
the Year by a Maori Artist | Kopae-Irirangi Kaipuoru Maori o te Tau
SIX60 - Don't Give It Up
Best Music Video by a
Maori Artist | Ataata Maori Hira o te Tau
Alien Weaponry – Kai
Tangata
Best Maori Urban
Artist or Artists | Kaipuoru Maori-Noho-Taone Autaia
Rob Ruha
Best Roots, Reggae |
Kopaeroa Autaia Roots, Reggae
Tomorrow People – BBQ
Reggae
Best Maori Songwriter
| Kaitito Waiata- Maori Autaia
Seth Haapu – New Wave
Best Maori Male Solo
Artist | Manu Tīoriori Tane Autaia
Rob Ruha
Best Maori Female Solo
Artist | Manu Tīoriori Wahine Autaia
Ria Hall
Best Song by a Maori
Artist | Waiata Maori Hira
Rob Ruha - Kalega
Keeper of Tradition |
Kaitiaki Tikanga Puoru
Derek Lardelli
Dame Georgina Kingi
Lifetime Contribution
to Maori Music | Mauriora o Te Ao Puoru Maori
Monty Cowan
Music Industry Award |
Ahumahi Puoru
Carl Perkins
Music Composers Award
(Historical) | Te Puna o te ki o nehe
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