19 Mar 2022

Playing Favourites with musician Teremoana Rapley

From Saturday Morning, 10:05 am on 19 March 2022

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Teremoana Rapley started her music career as a teenager in the late 80s performing with politically conscious hip hop group Upper Hutt Posse. In the years following, she has worked with countless musical acts including Moana and The Moahunters, Dam Native, Mark de Clive Lowe, Che Fu and King Kapisi - who is also Rapley’s husband.

Alongside her music career, Rapley was pulled into television fronting What Now? and Mai Time, as well putting her skills to work behind the screen as a director for Maori Television. And in 2021 Rapley was made a Member of the NZ Order of Merit, for services to music and television.

Thirty-two years in the making, now Rapley is now poised to release her debut album, Daughter of a Housegirl.

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