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The 1983 New Zealand Music Awards had several Māori or Polynesian nominees representing the entertaining talent of a people who are taken for granted as natural entertainers, both home and abroad.

The names go on and on: Inia Te Wiata, Kiri Te Kanawa, Howard Morrison Quartet, John Rowles, Māori Hi-Five, Golden Harvest, Billy T James, Herbs and a host of others.

Many artists are more well-known overseas on the Asian or Pacific entertainment circuit than they are at home.

That’s because it’s possible to make a good living from entertaining overseas. 

But what have these Māori and Polynesian artists got that makes their sound distinctive? That’s a question that’s being taken very seriously by some music people.

Is it more than brown-skinned Pacific people playing and singing funk, soul, reggae, blues and disco by black American artists? 

One of the people looking for the contemporary sound of young Polynesia is Maui Prime, or