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Songwriter Maisey Rika says she feels she did justice to the song which won her a silver scroll.
Rika, Te Kahautu Maxwell and Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper won the APRA Maioha Award celebrating contemporary Maori music, for Ruaimoko, which is about the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
It appeared on her te reo Maori album Whitiora with additional vocals from Anika Moa.
She says the song came out of a discussion with Maxwell about songwriting at a time when the earthquake was on people’s minds.
"And then he emailed me these beautiful kupu and when you have beautiful kupu the tune of a waiata just comes naturally and it all fell in place, how the structure was going to be, and I was also working with Anika down in the prisons and I just had to have her in that waiata, she’s born and bred Christchurch, she brings it all home," Rika says.
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