The 2021 awards will be held in Hastings
at Toi Toi Hawkes Bay Arts & Events Centre on
September the 10th and will feature many of your favourite
Māori artists. As well as the nominees and live
performances, the evening is always filled with laughter,
manaaki and of course, delicious kai.This year’s
nominations feature our celebrated
Aotearoa artists as well as some new voices, who are
welcomed into the Māori music awards with open arms. After
the difficult year in 2020, we look forward to seeing
everyone in person at the 14th National Waiata Māori Music
Awards 2021.
Our wāhine
artists such as Anna Coddington,
Ainsley Ashell, Mistee K,
Paige and Vayne are all
nominees this year and we honor our wāhine Māori as a
vital voice of te ao Māori.
Anna
Coddington is a singer/songwriter/producer and her
album Beams is up for Best
Māori Pop Album, Vayne for Gutta Girl
and Misstee K’s The New
Chapter Album are all up for awards. Ainsley
Allen and Paige are in the running
as nominees for Best Wāhine Māori Solo
Artist.
Currently at the top of the te reo
Māori charts are NLC, who are finalists
for the Best Māori Reggae/Roots Album for
Trouble, alongside Grove Roots for
their album Iwi. Hani Dread is a
finalist for Best Single By A Māori Artist
with his waiata Kōkiri, Kings is up
for Best Hip Hiphop Album for
Raplist alongside Adam Tukiri with
SON.
Returning award winners, Troy
Kingi, Stan Walker,
L.A.B and Tipene Harmer
are finalists in multiple categories. Up for Best
Māori Solo Artist is Hawkins, who
is no stranger to the industry. Nominated for Best
RnB album is Lois Baker with
Love Levitates, in good company alongside
Mara TK, who is also in the running for the
Best Māori Solo Artist.
Other Waiata
Māori Music Awards artists are previous award-winners
Tomorrow People, Morse Gang and
also IA who are all finalists for
Best Māori Group.
With a talented
list of Māori artists, this year’s awards are going to be
tū meke!
Independent judges have assessed the work
of the artists online, individually, rather than as a group
or collective panel. The results were submitted via the
internet to the awards administrator and collated. Judges
have been nominated from the music industry, both Māori and
mainstream musicians, composers, producers, managers and
music organisations.
Following is the full list of
nominees and for more information, go to:
www.waiatamaoriawards.co.nz
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FINALISTS
2021
Best Māori Hip Hop Album:
Adam Tukiri
– SON
Kings – Raplist
Tipene Harmer – Heritage
Trail
Vayne – Gutta Girl
Best Māori RnB
Album:
Louis Baker – Love Levitates
Mara TK –
Bad Meditation
Mistee K – The Next Chapter
Troy
Kingi – The Ghost of Freddie Cesar
Best Māori
Roots/Reggae Album:
Grove Roots – Iwi
NLC –
Trouble
Best Māori Pop Album:
Anna Coddington
– Beams
L.A.B – L.A.B IV
Teeks – Something to
Feel
Troy Kingi – The Ghost of Freddie
Cesar
Best Māori Tāne Solo Artist:
Mara
TK
Teeks
Tipene Harmer
Troy
Kingi
Best Māori Wāhine Solo Artist:
Ainslee
Allen
Anna Coddington
Mistee
K
Paige
Best Māori
Group:
IA
L.A.B
Morse Gang
Tomorrow
People
Best Single By a Māori Artist:
Hani
Dread – Kōkiri
Hawkins – Can’t Leave It
Alone
L.A.B – Why Oh Why
Stan Walker –
Bigger
Tipene Harmer – Tūrangawaewae
Best
Māori Songwriter:
L.A.B – Why Oh Why
Mara TK –
Te Kete Aronui
Teeks – Remember Me
Tipene Harmer
– Tūrangawaewae
Troy Kingi – All Your Ships Have
Sailed
Best Music Video by a Māori
Artist:
Grove
Roots – Atua Māori
L.A.B
– Why Oh Why
Stan
Walker – Bigger
Teeks
– Younger
Troy
Kingi – First Take
Strut
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