Teremoana rapley biography

Stinky Jim. Southside Records. Unsung Heroes EP. Teremoana Rapley aka Teremoana. Profile Discography Facebook Twitter. Martyn Pepperell. Originally from Upper Hutt in the greater Wellington region, Teremoana Rapley is an Auckland-based singer and songwriter. Teremoana Rapley on the cover of Planet magazine. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk.

Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. New Zealand rapper. Upper HuttNew Zealand. Biography [ edit ]. Discography [ edit ]. Singles [ edit ]. As featured artist [ edit ]. See also [ edit ]. The journey to create Daughter of a Housegirl is still ahead of her. Like most creatives, Rapley has had to contend with the pressures of maintaining a day job to pay the bills.

She has raised four sons.

Teremoana rapley biography

That's what I'd like to do. And I haven't finished an album yet. I have many, many songs. Sometimes, she will start writing lyrics, and then create a tune. I'm not trying to force it to be one way or another. In the video, she wears a black, satin gown that conjures colonial dress. The pattern often is to make it in the big time for a while but then to fade away.

Many have a hard time coping without the accolades and the spotlight. The spotlight is rubbish, full stop. I shifted from being a vocalist for Upper Hutt Posse into the background with the Moahunters — and I had a record label that was driving me around and people taking me out to lunch and all that sort of stuff. I knew these people before that, and they were suddenly very different once I got into this celebrity and spotlight space.

The biggest change that I see with people over the years is drugs. You know, people get into the limelight and then they get on to the buzz of the drugs — and they just lose their minds. I see it all the time. What would you say about the way being a mum has affected the way you view the world? It definitely grounded me. The oldest is 29 this year and the youngest is And there are three grandchildren.

They go from five to eight. But can you change Wikipedia? Actually, I put all of my skillsets in there one time but then someone changed it back again. You call yourself a Black Moana Sovereign Storyteller. How do you get that in to Wikipedia? I just have to keep on saying it over and over again, and have it in articles like this one. I just gotta keep talking.

And if you google that term, it will come up with my teremoana rapley biography. I imagine that you developed a lot of your skills as a teenager. In fact, I was able to buy my first house at There were lots of things that were happening in the six years after I left home. And I was just 16, They knew that I lived with the boys of the Posse in town and they offered me a room.

And by the time I was 20, I was ready to buy a house and have a baby, which is what I did. There was none of that, Dale. It was just that there were these situations I got into — and this is the way that I managed it. So, these were heavy times. Well, I became a Black Moana Sovereign Storyteller and that was a result of those influences over the years and also spending time with Moana and being there in her lounge when she was talking with Jane Kelsey and other influential women.

Watching Moana doing designs, too. There was a design that she did of the Treaty of Waitangi. It was like a poster that people could have in their homes. I think it was for the Law Society. Moana was designing that on the dining table. And I remember the meetings of all these people coming over home. That was part of my upbringing — and those people have had a massive influence on me.

I love Eva Rickard.