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Singer songwriter Emma Paki needs no introduction but just like removing your shoes as you enter a house, you must remove your inhibitions to enter hers. She has received national honours as ‘Best Songwriter’ and ‘Most Promising Female Vocalist’ and ‘Best Music Video’ with her hit single ‘System Virtue’. The accolades continued in `94 when her Neil Finn produced single ‘Greenstone’ topped the charts, followed closely by her debut album “Oxygen of Love”, released in Australia, Japan and Italy, earning her a ‘Mana Maori Award’ in 1996.

Her songwriting is an honest extension of her life experiences and she is as content playing the guitar sitting on the ground as she is touring with Crowded House or Dave Dobbyn at sell-out concerts. Either way it would be a spotlight performance with rave reviews because her skills are prolific. As one of Aotearoa music’s most formidable talents, Emma is the undisputed pioneer of our singer and songwriter darlings. “Oxygen of Love is remarkable. Paki has made perhaps one of the most beautiful albums produced in this country yet. She is a very special talent.’‘ Metro. “Quite simply … the most beautiful album I’ve ever clapped ears on. These songs are bittersweet and fragile enough to shatter at a touch. She could sing extracts from the Road Code and it’d send tremors through your soul.’‘ Waikato Times. “Her songwriting is disarming with both its melodic sense and its wide eyed lack of guile.’‘ NZ Herald. For Fans of: Bic Runga, Anika Moa, Maisey Rika