Marie Te Hapuku sings "Pokarekare ana" (Traditional Maori Love Song)

[SarahW4023]

So beautiful :) gives me goosebumps and pride to be a kiwi

[barbkrejca]

So beautiful. Thank you for sharing. We are looking forward to visiting New Zealand for the first time in February.

[saultyre]

disgusting. can't the so called civilised world leave thjis worlD alone.? DOES SHOWING AUTHENTIC PICS MAKE THIS A GREAT PERFORMANCE? no, gO DIE

[RonaldBarone]

@saultyre I didnt get it. She is singing so well

[elphaba568]

Arohanui



[RonaldBarone]

I have been reading the others but this one does have an special effect on me... thanks

[criticalviewer1959]

Thanks for the beautiful video!

Happy Easter. Love and peace to Down Under!

@Ilkamy thanks for sharing. Enjoy life and the springtime!

[terigower]

thank u tehauke....

[terigower]

sounds beautiful...only coming from the heart that knows love..thank u Priscella for urs...and ur sharing ....

[despoina1951]

Wonderful song thanks for share!!!!

[solidaritet2010]

Many Thanks!

[attatsis]

Wonderful!

@Ilkamy: Thanks for sharing!

[Ilkamy]

BEAUTIFUL photographs of the Maori women, and great singing by Marie Te Hapuku.

Tears of joy in my eyes and memories come up when I hear the beautiful love song. Long ago I stayed for quite a while in Aotearoa… In 1985 I have heard in Kaitaia in a marae the song for the first time.

Thank you very much for the great compilation!

Arohanui

[despoina1951]

@Ilkamy thanks for share wonderful

[kiwiriauk]

I wish I had seen "neilmak" 's comment before I clicked to listen. I howled like a baby !

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Warning: If you're a New Zealander living overseas, it's gonna bring tears to your eyes [sigh]...

[andyj2127]

You do not have to be a New Zealander to love Maori music, just someone who lived and worked there and feel homesick sometimes for Dunedin and the NZ way of life. God bless the people of Christchurch wish we could help in some way.xxx

[pippatassie]

Beautiful women ... all! Beautiful, emotive words and music.

[Gerdina848]

tears....of emotion, touching, when I hear the crowd singing together with the singer!

[verusia82]

Absolutely beautiful

[TColette19]

You are so right, I sat here overseas & wept, thanks beautiful

[idrnoel]

I am stunned speechless. Simply beautiful is an understatement.

[neilmak]

Forget the other opera singers and pretenders - this is the real Pokarekare Ana. Sung from the heart, simply and beautifully and with feeling. You'll never hear it sung better...

Warning: If you're a New Zealander living overseas, it's gonna bring tears to your eyes [sigh]...

[TColette19]

@neilmak thanks as a kiwi overseas I agree

[kuterere]

@neilmak sorry dear!!! But I have to disagree with you...I've never ever heard this song sang more beautifully then Two cousin in Rotorua NewZealand they sing this song so Beautifully.. they just take your breath away.. I even got their names i was so impressed Whare and Awhi

[Gavoora123]

The facial expressions of the subjects in the photos and the music match each other perfectly and are melancholic. I don't know the meaning of the song. I enjoyed it.

[kiwiriauk]

The waves are breaking against the shores of Waiapu

My heart is aching for your return my love

Oh my beloved come back to me my heart is breaking for of love for you

I have written you a letter and enclosed with it my ring

If your people should see it then the trouble will begin

[kiwiriauk]

Oh my beloved come back to me my heart is breaking for of love for you

My poor pen is broken my paper is spent

But my love for you endures and remains forever more

Oh my beloved come back to me my heart is breaking for of love for you

The sun's hot sheen won't scorch my love

Being kept evergreen by the falling of my tears

Oh girl Come back to me I could die of love for you

[JanaQuelle]

So moving and beautiful... I just love Marie's voice. Best version of the song, hands down!

[flashrobbie]

Excellent - have five stars and straight into favorites.

[tundramom]

Oh Marie.... I cannot tell you how beautiful this is. I'm sitting here and cannot sleep. Drinking warm milk and honey and what that does to my taste buds the sound of your beautiful voice does to my ears. LOVE YOU!

[myeyepie]

Beautiful.  Time stops while you listen.