GRAMMY AWARD WINNING MĀORI
TAONGA PUORO COMPOSER & PRACTITIONER
Rongoā Puoro Practitioner
Composer
Wānanga Puoro
Recording Artist
Film & TV
Live Performer
Kei a te Pō te timatatanga o te waiatatanga mai a te Atua
Ko te Ao, Ko te Ao mārama, ko te Ao tūroa.
It was in the night, that the gods sang the world in to existence. From the world of light, in to the world of music.
- Matiaha Tiramorehu 1849
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JEROME IS A FINE AMBASSADOR FOR MĀORI CULTURE AND PEOPLE. HE IS WELL ENDOWED WITH OUR CULTURE AND IS PARTICULARLY GIFTED WITH TAKING IT TO DIVERSE AUDIENCES AND COMMUNITIES. HE IS ONE OF THE ‘NEW WAVE’ OF TAONGA PUORO EXPONENTS IN AOTEAROA TODAY.
-Te Ahukaramū
Charles Royal, B.Mus(Hons),MPhil,PhD.
Puoro atu
Puoro mai
The sound we send out to the universe
is the sound that is returned.