Hinewehi Mohi started learning Maori at the age of 10. Her dad taught her and her sister. Hinewehi Mohi is fluent in Maori, and she has often credited her dad for helping her and her sister look more into the Maori culture. Her dad was not fluent, but he decided that speaking Maori was important, because it is a native language to New Zealand.
Hinewehi’s first album is called oceania. This album has 12 songs, which are all in Te Reo Maori. She was in London to promote her album, when she sang the national album in Maori. After getting a Bachelor of Arts at Waikato University in 1985, Hinewehi started reporting for primetime Māori slot Koha.
Hinewehi was born, and grew up in Hawke’s bay, Hastings (a city on the north island of New Zealand.(just if you didn’t know.) She attended St Joseph's college in Hastings. She also has a daughter, Hineraukatauri.
In 1999, Hinewehi Mohi sang the New Zealand national anthem in Te Reo at the world cup. This left people with different things to say like “we couldn’t sing along to our own anthem.” The national anthem in Maori was actually written three years after the english one was written. The Māori version is not a direct translation of the English version. God defend New Zealand was composed in the 1870s, and became a national anthem in 1977. Today, children in schools sing the national anthem in both Maori, and English.
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