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Tama Waipara is a prolific Māori artist, composer, mentor in the Māori music industry, and currently a curator. He was raised in Ōpōtiki in the Bay of Plenty and started his musical endeavours playing the clarinet at a young age, highly influenced by his musical family. In pursuing his career as a clarinet player, Tama graduated from ...
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Mar 18, 2021 · Tama Waipara is primarily known as an outstanding vocalist, although he originally trained as a clarinettist and was pursuing a career in New York City when an accident turned him towards singing. He released an album there before returning home and winning over local audiences. His deep musical knowledge leads him to create work that is both ...
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Tama brings his extensive knowledge and expertise to imagining and designing the world-class creative experiences within the festival. It’s safe to say he’s the man for this job. With 8 years’ experience at the Auckland Arts Festival as Senior Programme Manager and Creative Associate and formerly Programme Leader Māori at Auckland Council (Arts and Culture).
Oct 31, 2007 · Tama Waipara performing "cruise" at a fundraising event & commemoration of the 1835 declaration of independance in new zealand. A Wahanui speaker box Fundrai...
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Opotiki-raised Tama Waipara was studying performance clarinet at New York’s Manhattan School of Music when a freak accident (a fuse box fell on his head) put studies on hold. While convalescing, he took up singing and songwriting. Three albums and a return to Auckland later, Waipara is a fixture ...
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Playing with the idea of submerged/emergent sound and revisited motifs, this acknowledges the links of whakapapa through Turahiri (represented as fish in the swirling projections) and the space of Te Poho. I also had the privilege of sound design for my brother Zak's animated short film, Tiwha, tiwha te pō. Tama Waipara, 2017.
