Listen to work I did lyrics for: http://www.myspace.com/jocray Song : Jewel City - Jonathan Crayford "Big Foot" album.
Some other songs I recorded are Naked Flame - Dave Dobbyn "Twist" album
Waiting - Te Kupu "Ko Te Matakahi Kupu" album
Overcome, Hold I True, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6myCReZjiYE
Ganja Wars, Sight Divine, Great Crime, E te Iwi, Whakapapa - Upper Hutt Posse "Legacy" album
Unusually Hot - Phil Toms "Storm Warning" album
Influences
Emma Paki music is unique to New Zealand. OVERSEAS INFLUENCES ARE - Randy Crawford, Stevie Wonder, Renee Geyer, Edie Brickell, Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Joan Armatrading and people who were influenced by black americans.
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New Zealand influences are : Mahinarangi Tocker and Syd Hirini Melbourne.
Sounds Like
Newspapers have described me as being similar to Rickie Lee Jones, Tracey Chapman and Billie Holliday.
Record company and film execs have described me as like Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, India Arie, Buffy Saint Marie, Bjork, Erika Badu.
Single "Greenstone" Number 5 NZ Music Charts. Produced by Neil Finn (Crowded House - Australasian Band from NZ, Split Enz - NZ).
Gold Album sales "Oxygen of Love" 1997. Album released in Japan, New Zealand - Virgin / EMI. Produced by Mark Hart (Crowded House, Supertramp - USA). " 'Oxygen Of Love' is quite simply ... the most beautiful album I've ever clapped ears on". --- Waikato Times Sept 1996. ---
Four Best Music Video Awards. Recently voted 9th best New Zealand music video to date.
Mana Maori Award 1997 NZ Entertainer of the Year Awards. New album in production.
The first song I ever wrote was about my want, need and love of Jesus, aged 10. I usually lie to media interviewers about this and say that my second or third original song about Harriette Tubman and Bob Marley were the first penned by myself. These were tributes to revolutionary people of God.
The fourth I put out, 1st up on my album "Oxygen Of Love", penned aged 14.
At 15, the fifth song I ever wrote was called "Music Is My Life". I got the highest School Certificate Music mark in the Whakatane district because the music teacher "Tom Bayliss" predicted what would be in the exam from the flow of previous tests, they tested more than usual on creative ability and, the Messiah by Handel toured a performance through our small town. I met a ninety something year old ex piano teacher who explained the whole thing to me, and I fell in love with the contralto voice, passed grade 5 piano Royal School of Music and grade 6 Theory of Music.
I progressed on to dropping out of high school an adventurous minstrel gypsying the north island of New Zealand involved in indigenous people's rights with the Maori O+s Rights Organisation.
Tautoko Waahine ie (Women Support) ran a course called Mana Wahine ie (Woman prestige) with the resulting goal being a recording called "Devolution" in the maori women music ensemble "Black Katz". Out of the two songs I put on that album "Wanea Ngakau" i.e. (deep emotion)was highly regarded by student radio a few years later when maori record label "Tangata Records" ie (people records) had picked it up. George Hubbard, one of Tangata Records company directors played "Wanea Ngakau" to world acclaimed British band "Killing Joke" frontman Jaz Coleman who produced debut single "System Virtue" cleaning up at 1993 NZ Music Awards winning Best Songwriter, the song eventually voted one of 40 favourite N.Z. songs of all time. It is about this: http://www.storyofstuff.com
Bookings for MUSIC PERFORMANCE, USE & COMPOSITION or Session Recording: emmapaki@gmail.com
Tumanako and Te Aroha Paki raised me at Paroa Beach, Whakatane, Te Ika a Maui, New Zealand. Before Christ, the spirited hemp, stone & wood crafted catamaran – the Mataatua waka lead by my ancestor Toroa – landed here from Havaiiki Rarotonga.
Fresh off the boat the ancestors freaked out in awe and hit the streets of Kakahoroa. Meanwhile the gargantuan Mataatua waka started drifting out to sea. Toroa’s daughter and sister, Wairaka and Muriwai, spotted it and in a catch 22 – due to having to break the lore in the absence of the men – perspicuously befitted “Kia Whakatane Au I Ahau!” i.e.: With permission, I gotta do a man’s function!. They wrestled the restless waka to safety. Jee, wish I were that strong. Commands respect. From then, they named Kakahoroa, Whakatane.
Dad rented a house belonging to Aunty Rangihoea and Uncle Pat. She sings like Bessie Smith who over the Pacific clenched her fist at KKK wearing fallen clouds that turned up at a concert telling them to back off because she has plenty of back up – referring to the all white marquee full of audience. We put on our first performance there. Us kids singing up a storm from the veranda, the rela’s. cheering throwing bouquets of “You’re a gun alright Emma. You’re a gun alright!” Maori action songs. Fortunately, we learnt how to sing Maori at school. Mum and Dad were discouraged having had it whacked out of them. Tender times tyrannical teachers. There’s a cool straightforward programme on Maori TV channel called Toku Reo i.e. My Lingo. The chic hosting it is hip. Check it out if you’re in the land.
I remember Uncle Eddie Ho’ John Rowles’ father popping in. John Rowles was the pride of the town winning Best Entertainer of the Year NZ seven times with hits like “If I Only Had Time” and “Cheryl Moana Marie”. It’s true about creative visualisation. Dad had a photo of him with Bob Hope and a O+ painted and put on the wall, and that was magic. It pays to surround you with the good. The bad often has neat things to learn from and enhance in the same way dirt to seed can be like mother’s milk to baby. In addition, there is nothing else like it.
Very informative site... I often wonder whats behind the little things like drawing pins and staples and drinking straws etc.etc. and how many people have had to suffer or risk their lives so that we can have paper clips.... it really opens the mind that video to whats REALLY going on....
Hey Sisduh... was really nice to bump into you yesterday... and so beautiful what you said to Te Manea.... and wow! i never knew my art was floating around the net heehee but yeah those were my thoughts about making art, play and have fun... because life taught you how to sing or play, and life can teach you art too, for me its about capturing beauty that i see and then extending the parts of it that i want to, i wondered who could teach me our ancestral art, and then i thought "the ancestors well" so whenever i go to a marae i love to draw what i see around me, for me art is like a big toy, just like music is :) for me its fun... and play :) hopefully might randomly bump into you somewhere else around the moutere :) ka aroha!!
Thank you for connecting! If you're interested, I'm offering one free original MP3 download to my new MySpace friends, just let me know the name of which track would you like to get and I'll tell you where to download it for free.
Ever wondered what to do in the event of a nuclear threat?
A while ago I found stuff that inspired me to make this film:
Living Under the Shadow of the Nuclear Umbrella
Both artistic (ensure you get the background music!) and educational, it primarily comprises official British government civil defence advice.
Though source materials are quite aged, much remains relevant today.
I encourage all to visit the YouTube page to learn more (Show support! Rate! Comment!) and responsibly circulate as widely as possible, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIim3Rj7L4
Kia ora Emma, just to let you know that your video System Virtue is ranked 9th on the hot 100 music videos at the New Zealand Film Archive. There is an event this saturday night at the NZFA to celebrate enzed music video making! check here: http://www.filmarchive.org.nz/readytoroll/ it was an online public voting process around 50,000 votes..
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You might enjoy watching some of my films (use the on screen controls to skip between them):
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of Heaven mix forever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not Be my friend? -
See the mountains kiss high Heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou friendship not me?
I know you don't know me, but you add me as your friend, and I'm honored to be one of your friends. My name is Kyle Elliott, 22 years old, 5' 10", 205lbs, green eyes
and a mixture of French and African American spices.
I'm part of the newest singing group from the the family of
Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick and Smokey Robinson. It's the first time
that the family has put together a all boys singing group. And I hope we won't let you down.
All I want to do is be one of your friends , if you don't mind, if I could send you a poem now and then,
write about the things that happen to me in this crazy music business.
Or just keep in touch to see how you're doing in life.
I just finished college and join together with my brothers Shermaine Jaqu'el and Frederick and
my god brother Jason (DNA). We gave up our friends, family and life for the family.
I guess you can say we sold our souls (smile).
And the song"If These Wall Could Talk" is just for you .
I hope 2009 brings you joy and much love. Just think about it, if our walls could talk.
New Zealand influences are : Mahinarangi Tocker and Syd Hirini Melbourne.
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