Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Inia Te Wiata Jazmine


28/02/2017  

Biography 

Inia Te Wiata was bought up in a moari family in Otaki. He showed intrest in moari carving and singing he performed in concerts and toured with a moari choir. Many years later he was fully recognised.  Inia Te Wiata  was born in 1915 10th of june and died on the 26th of june 1971. His parent were Scottish Swedish and Moari. Inia Te Wiatas dad died in 1918 when Inia was only 3 years old. When Inia got back from his tours he performed in New ealand for the first time in over 10 years. Inia was separated from his family for many years but eventually he was divorced from his first wife in 1960. Inia was married again with Beryl McMillan who Inia met while she was studying drama in London with there daughter Rima who was born in 1963


That was a great piece of 
learning about NZ history my
 rate would probably be a 9/10






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