The winner of the Tui Aotearoa Music Award for 2022 Te Kaipuoro Taketake Toa Best Folk Artist is Troy Kingi. This latest album Black Sea Golden Ladder is a collaboration between himself and award-winning singer/songwriter/producer Delaney Davidson. Davidson, alongside Jol Mulholland, won 2021's Te Kaiwhakaputa Toa Best Producer Tui for the same album. Black Sea Golden Ladder consists of free-form compositions set to ten original poems documenting the life cycle of humankind. Kingi has also collaborated with Hi Mama Productions to produce a thought-provoking visual representation of the album that explores an existential life experience.
The 2021 APRA Silver Scroll Awards were postponed three times last year due to Covid-19, but the winners can finally be celebrated in 2022.
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Watch a special performance of Troy Kingi's 'All Your Ships Have Sailed' recorded by Deva Mahal with a band of nine wāhine toa, after the tune won the Silver Scroll Award earlier tonight.
Music legend Troy Kingi was the winner on songwriting's biggest night in Aotearoa.
The 2021 APRA Silver Scroll Awards were postponed three times last year