Best Māori solo artist nominee 2022 WMMA Riqi Harawira ‘Creative Native’ presents
his new waiata alongside the music video
‘E rere ai (fly away)’. Release date Nov 25th


E rere ai (fly away) is a soft rock song which easily switches between English and Te reo Māori.
It is 70’s style American in flavour with some nice Hammond organ supporting Riqi’s clean lead lines on his Fender Stratocaster.
A song about a culturally blended couple who are flying away above the noise and opinions and doing their own thing. Inspiring others to find their wings too.

“Our song about Flying Away above the noise
to a quiet place where the voices of opinions can’t be heard
We have learnt to fly and blend our family together,
which has not always been socially accepted.
But we endure because we row in our waka together
and love each other through the noise
We hope our song Fly away helps others in culturally blended relationships find their wings to Fly Away too.”
Single/Video Review Review: E rere ai - Fly Away
06 NOV 2022 // A REVIEW BY KEV ROWLAND
A powerful message, all wrapped in a very en​​joyable song and lovely video.


Friday 25th Nov sees the release of the new single E rere ai (fly away) worldwide

E rere ai (fly away)is serviced to worldwide media through Bev Adair

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Riqi Harawira Bio


2020 nominee Best Māori Male solo artist (Maori music awards) Riqi Harawira (Te Aupōuri, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) has shared stages with some of the world’s biggest acts, Guns N Roses & Pearl Jam to name a few. The former lead guitarist and co-songwriter for popular 90’s grunge band Dead Flowers has collaborated with numerous kiwi artists across his career such as📽 Kings,📽 stellar*,📽 DLT, Che Fu and Dam Native. Riqi Harawira is a Kaupapa Māori fusion artist and a guitar virtuoso who is passionate about telling stories about Aotearoa through his guitar driven original music.
A multi-instrumentalist, Riqi frequently melds te reo Māori and English with rock music and demonstrates his guitar skills with powerful live performances on such songs as 📽 Pink Floyd 📽 Joe Satriani, and performing his electrifying version of the📽 NZ national anthem

Immersed in music from a young age, his father, Rangi Hadfield (Paeaoterangi Harawira) was an international Māori entertainer who performed in over 65 countries and who taught Riqi the guitar. Riqi was raised in Tamaki makarau and attended Westlake boys and Rangitoto college.
Riqi’s other passion is working with Tane in the non-violence department kaupapa at Te Taiwhenua O Heretaunga As manager he works alongside Tane referred by the courts and Dept of Corrections using kaupapa Māori and western interventions to elicit their own motivation to change, and supporting that change to reduce repeat offending, enhance whanau ora and increase responsibility.

In 2016 Riqi Harawira released his first solo album,👂 ‘Sound of the Long White Cloud’
spawning the singles📽 ‘Greenstone & Gold’, ‘Oxygen’,👂 ‘Te Aroha’ & 📽‘Goddess’. This album also featured an indigenized version of
📽 ‘Gutter Black’, Produced by ‘Kings’ featuring Dave McCartney the original writer from Hello Sailor.


Riqi’s second album, ‘Mauri’ brought forward tracks like
📽 ‘Wairua Tūturu’ and📽 ‘Kia ora’.
His 2020 single📽 'Ruapekapeka' is a powerful Guitaiaha (Guitar -Taiaha) driven rock anthem with tribal chorus chants that hook you in immediately. A reminder of the famous northern battle between the colonials under Governor-General Grey and the combined forces of Kawiti and Hone Heke.
June 24th, 2022, saw Riqi Harawira release his last single📽 ‘Whina - Walk of freedom’. A track about Dame Whina Cooper.