Reo Ora - PERE

Written by; Pere Wihongi, Hirini Melbourne
Produced by; Matthew Sadgrove, Kalisitiane Mausia
Performed by;
Vocals - PERE, Lilly Rawiri
Instruments - Matthew Sadgrove, Kalisitiane Mausia, Thabani Gapara
Video Clip Produced by; Shae Sterling, Aimee Sinclair
Te Kura Kaupapa Māori a rohe o Mangere, Te Manu Kai Miro, Te Whare Pāremata, Raynham Park, ANGITU Kapa
The Ministry of Education celebrate 50 Years of the Te Reo Māori petition with the official ‘Tama Tū, Reo Ora’ campaign. Releasing a song by award winning artist PERE, commemorating the visionaries and disrupters of Te Reo Māori who’ve reinstated the mana of Te Reo Māori as an official language of Aotearoa.
Using nuances of the late Hirini Melbourne classic ‘Ngā Iwi E’, a composition used widely for protest marches for Māori rights.
The slogan uses a play on words made famous by the group Ngā Tamatoa ‘Tama tū, Tama ora, Tama moe, Tama mate’ - This slogan references the whakatauki and honours the collaborate efforts of language revitalisation with the phrase ‘Reo Ora’.