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Ngaire Fuata

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Also known as
  
Ngaire

Role
  
Singer

Genres
  
Pop music


Years active
  
1990s

Movies
  
Ma

Name
  
Ngaire Fuata

Albums
  
Ngaire

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Occupation(s)
  
Television producer

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Ngaire Fuata is a New Zealand Television producer for TVNZ and a former Pop singer. She is of Rotuman and Dutch descent.

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Personal life

Born in England, Fuata later migrated to New Zealand with her parents at a young age. She grew up in Whakatane. She has been working in the television industry for more than 20 years. In 2011, Fuata and her daughter visited her father's native island of Rotuma and filmed a documentary called Salat se Rotuma - Passage to Rotuma for TVNZ's Tagata Pasifika programme.

Music career

Fuata released her debut album self-titled Ngaire in 1991. She is best known for her remake of Lulu's To Sir with Love. It spent 6 weeks at number one on the New Zealand charts in 1990.

Album

  • 1991: Ngaire
  • Single

  • To Sir with Love
  • Son of a Preacher Man
  • References

    Ngaire Fuata Wikipedia