New Zealand NZ Maori Ana Hato Concert Party Music Rotorua Photo Postcard
Photographer Isles of Rotorua unused postcard
New Zealand NZ Maori Ana Hato Concert Party Music Rotorua Photo Postcard
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New Zealand NZ Maori Ana Hato Concert Party Music Rotorua Photo Postcard,
The unused card card in nice order
From 1933 she led her own concert party, which included other guides and members of her Tūhourangi tribe. She organised many concerts to help Māori serving in the Second World War. In 1941 she sang at the opening of the 1ZB building in Auckland, and in 1949 at the 1YZ radio station in Rotorua.
During the last eight years of her life Ana suffered from cancer and was frequently in hospital. Nevertheless, she continued to travel with concert parties and to delight the crowds. She died aged 45 at Rotorua on 8 December 1953 and was buried at Whakarewarewa among her Tūhourangi people. Her pianist, Hamuera Mitchell of Ngāti Whakaue, said that Ana Hato ‘possessed a voice of calibre, trueness in purity and register…it was unique. She sang the real Māori way, there was a hotu [sobbing quality] in her voice’. For many years a memorial notice placed in the Rotorua Daily Post each December affirmed that although the melody had ended, the memory lingered on. In 1996 some recordings by Ana Hato and Deane Waretini were released on compact disc.
