Tangata Beats champions releasing award winning protest song
Five students from Rotorua Boys High are set to release their protest song that secured them a top spot at the Smoke Free Tangata Beats competition last year. Kotahi Te Ra took out top honours with their last minute entry of "Boogie Man's Disguise", a song about the unauthorised use of a Kuia's image in a Hobson's Pledge political campaign opposing Maori wards. Lead singer and songwriter, fifteen-year-old Teuamairangi Webster-Tarei spoke to Lisa Owen.
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