Emma Paki的小站（豆瓣音乐人）

爱玛.怕奇 1968年1月于新西兰毛利小镇伐卡塔尼出生,
曾获得1993新西兰最佳创作女歌手,最佳录影带奖.
被当地人称为毛利族女神歌手.
她在第一张大碟<爱的氧气>日本东京发行后神秘消失于新西兰歌坛,
大碟在东京引起轰动,随后代领起了新西兰旅游热.
她的行踪不定,经常缺席很多重要音乐盛典.
现在无人知道她的行踪.
怕奇音乐的意义不仅仅停留在艺术上,它们更多的是对于毛利种族民族气节的歌颂.她以一个毛利族女人的视觉通过歌声传达对爱与和平,反殖民主义,寻求种族平等的种种呼吁.
怕奇可以说是新西兰唯一一个音乐战士,Bic Runga曾经给她唱过和声,
但Bic最终还是走向了商业与艺术.
而怕奇依然在为自己的民族气节而唱.
Emma Paki (born January 1968 in Whakatane, New Zealand) is a New Zealand singer/songwriter.
She won Most Promising Female Vocalist, Best Song Writer and Best Video at the 1993 New Zealand Music Awards.
Her next single "Greenstone" went into the NZ Top 10, and won her nomination for Best Female Vocalist in 1994. Her debut album “Oxygen of Love” released in 1996 reached gold status and she gained a second nomination for Best Female Vocalist, as well as a Best Album nomination in the 1996 New Zealand Music Awards.
About Emma Paki:
Wiremu Tumanako and Te Aroha Paki raised me at Paroa Beach, Whakatane, Te Ika a Maui, New Zealand. The spirited hemp, stone & wood crafted catamaran – the Mataatua waka lead by my ancestor Toroa – landed here from Havaiiki Rarotonga. Fresh off the boat the ancestors freaked out in awe and hit the streets of Kakahoroa. Meanwhile the gargantuan Mataatua waka started drifting out to sea. Toroa’s daughter and sister, Wairaka and Muriwai, spotted it and in a catch 22 – due to having to break the lore in the absence of the men – perspicuously befitted “Kia Whakatane Au I Ahau!” i.e.: With permission, I gotta do a man’s function! They wrestled the restless waka to safety. From then, they named Kakahoroa, Whakatane. Dad rented a house belonging to Aunty Rangihoea and Uncle Pat. She sings like Bessie Smith who over the Pacific clenched her fist at KKK wearing fallen clouds that turned up at a concert telling them to back off because she has plenty of back up – referring to the all white marquee full of audience. We put on our first performance there. Maori action songs we learnt at Paroa Primary School. Us kids singing up a storm from the veranda. Fortunately, we learnt how to sing Maori at school. Mum and Dad were discouraged having had it whacked out of them.
There was a painting of John Rowles – New Zealand’s king of rock – on the wall. His Dad used to visit - Dad’s eldest brother - Maori All Black Eddie Hohapata Rowles. Their sister – Aunty Bubby’s Uncle Harry Reneti put Lillian Wharewera and me on the Christmas show on local radio aged 9 years. This and winning a talent quest singing and playing guitar the year before convinced me I had a voice. Dad had bought a piano for $40 and a guitar for me. Tonia taught me guitar, having moved closer to Koro Bronco my grandfather who suggested the house to mum. I sang the first song I ever wrote on the next Christmas show (aged 10). I’d been learning piano for a coupla' years. Being Maori it was a breeze to sing and pick up instruments.
Sat grade 1 piano at 11 and wrote Harriett Tubman song the year after. Kids at high school were into punk, new wave, reggae, rock, etc – ’81 – I was into Henry Mancini, Renee Geyer, Phoebe Snow, Mozart, Rickie Lee Jones, and quite a broad spectrum. Bob Marley passed away and I wrote “King of Reggae”. Mum’s sister-in-law’s sister Taka married to Clyde Lambourne moved to town from London and I used to hang out at their place, a haven. One of the kids accidently broke my first guitar and the second a black Carlos took a walk at the marae. They gave me an Eko. I got dux of primary school for some unknown reason. High School sucked. Most teachers wrote in school reports that I was creative and imaginative. Mocked most days, I gave up on every other subject but Music and wrote “Music Is My Life” in the School Cert. Year. Search me for reasons why. I was good at art too. I’ve always had a hand in all facets of creativity in my product. The first song to appear on my debut album I wrote aged 14. These two songs I performed in front of school assemblies and on tour with the school Maori club. It was a buzz to get the highest school C. music mark.
I started out performing weekday lunchtimes at a restaurant at the entrance of the local river where there’s a statue of Wairaka on the rock in the channel. I was a gypsy wandering the Ika a Maui singing and doing the odd course qualified to do so fee-free – the government requirement being not having passed 3 subjects for school C. Ngatai Huata who foundered all women group Black Katz found me sing a poem I set music to by Hinewirangi Kohu. It suited the criteria of the next album she planned. Thank God I made it to that Maori Artists and Writers Hui. She’d worked with Renee Geyer. The song she coached me to write in “dictionary” Maori launched me into a solo career with Neil Cruickshank’s and George Hubbard’s Tangata Records, and “Wanea Ngakau” was re-released on Maori artists compilation “Tribal Stomp”. My debut single “System Virtue” won Most Promising Female Vocalist, Best Songwriter, and Best Video at the 1993 at the NZ Music Awards:
Albums: • ‘Oxygen of Love’ (CD), (EMI/Virgin, 1996). Produced by Mark Hart. Executive Producer Nigel Horrocks. Singles: • ‘System Virtue’, (CD, Cassette Single), (Tangata, 1993). Produced by Jaz Coleman. Executive Producers Neil Cruickshank, George Hubbard, Willie Jackson. • ‘Greenstone’, (CD, Cassette Single), (Virgin, 1994). Produced by Neil Finn. Executive Producer Nigel Horrocks. • ‘Don’t Give It Up’, (CD Single), (Virgin, 1996). Produced by Mark Hart. Executive Producer Nigel Horrocks. • ‘Paradise’, (CD Single), (Virgin, 1996). Produced by Mark Hart. Executive Producer Nigel Horrocks. • ‘Stand Alone’, (CD Compilation) The Green Room 003 (Ear)th, 2004. Produced by Bic Runga Executive Producer Tracey Tawhiao. • ‘Century Sky’, (CD Compilation) Loop Select 006: Kono 2005. Produced by Tony Strong. Executive Producers Joff Rae, DLT.
Nominated for Best Female Vocalist, 1994, ‘Greenstone’. Nominated for Best Female Vocalist, 1996, ‘Oxygen of Love’. Nominated for Best Album, 1996, ‘Oxygen of Love’. Mana Maori Award, 1996, ‘Oxygen of Love’. NZ Film and TV Awards: Best Music Video 1993 and 1996. I’ve also recorded with Jonathan Crayford and sung on five albums of Te Kupu, including his group Upper Hutt Posse. I am re-releasing album Oxygen of Love remastered with bonus tracks recorded live at WOMAD Western Springs 1997. www.karekarerecording.com I will record more albums of the music I’ve composed over the years. So please enjoy them.
(所有的音乐归ＥＭＭＡＰＡＫＩ２００９所有，未经允许不能用于任何商业形式的使用）　