I Muru Ahiahi

Ngatapa Black (Tuhoe, Tuwharetoa, Te Whanau-a-Apanui) is a fluent speaker of Māori and a bilingual singer-songwriter who has been composing, recording and performing music for more than a decade. An award-winning promotions producer, programme maker, voice-over artist and presenter at Māori Television, Ngatapa takes her stylistic cues from Erykah Badu, India Arie and Jill Scott to bring a deep sense of soul to her sound.

She was raised in a musical family and can seamlessly step from Maori to English, from jazz to rock, without missing a beat. She credits local female singers such as Betty-Anne Monga, Ladi 6, Brooke Fraser and her mother, Whirimako Black, "who have inspired and pushed me, to write and sing with meaning, so that I too may be able to inspire others."

I Muri Ahiahi is Ngatapa's second album following 2010's Miss Black & the Light, and is in a blues-jazz-soul style, with all songs in Te Reo Māori, showcasing Ngatapa's truly mesmerising voice.