E Ipo
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| "E Ipo" | ||||
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| Single by Prince Tui Teka | ||||
| from the album The Man, The Music, The Legend | ||||
| Released | 1982 | |||
| Genre | Contemporary Māori | |||
| Length | 3:45 | |||
| Label | Tui Records, RCA Victor | |||
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"E Ipo" (English: "By Love") is a 1982 song written by Prince Tui Teka and Ngoi Pēwhairangi[1] in tribute to Teka's wife Missy, sung bilingually in Māori and English. The song was a number-one single in New Zealand for two weeks.[2]
The melody was based on the popular Indonesian love song "Mimpi Sedih" by Aloysius Riyanto that Teka had heard from New Zealand soldiers stationed in Singapore[3] while he was performing overseas from 1980-1982.[4][5]
The video for the song was taken from a TV special filmed at the Mandalay nightclub in Newmarket, Auckland. The song later made the Nature's Best 3 compilation, a collection of the top 100 New Zealand songs as voted by members of APRA.[6]
"E Ipo", alongside "Poi E" (1984) by the Pātea Māori Club (also written by Pēwhairangi) were the first widely successful songs sung in Te Reo Māori in mainstream music, and had a great impact on the promotion of Te Reo and Māori culture in New Zealand.[7]
