Moana Maniapoto is a multi award-winning singer, songwriter and journalist.
While touring with her band she has done concerts in China, Borneo, the New Orleans Jazz Festival, Poland, Hungary and Korea to name just a few.
To pay her way through law school she sang on Auckland's club circuit and developed into one of Aotearoa's finest musical acts.
She says while attending a service at a black gospel church in Detroit the congregation loved the songs she sang in Te Reo Maori.