Anna Coddington Takes Home Silver Scroll Award

Anna Coddington has won the coveted APRA Silver Scroll with her bilingual waiata ‘Kātuarehe'.

The Tāmaki Makaurau-based singer and songwriter (Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Te Arawa) was awarded the Silver Scroll, recognising excellence in songwriting, at a ceremony in Wellington last night at St James Theatre.

A much-deserved Silver Scroll Award win for Anna Coddington and her co-writers, Noema Te Hau III, Ruth Smith and Kawiti Waetford for ‘

Winning the peer-voted award for her bilingual waiata is a fitting recognition of her recent exploration of writing waiata reo rua and waiata reo Māori, as well as reflecting her song’s hook-filled narrative expressing the sentiment of ‘kātuarehe’ – meaning: ‘to be outstanding/marvellous’ – with such sharp, witty, wāhine toa energy.

It’s a song that lifts spirits and confidence, and the Aotearoa APRA membership resonated with it, voting it the winning song.

'Kātuarehe’ was reimagined live at the awards by Wellington-based 2022 Maioha Award winner AJA and friends.

The funk-filled ‘Kātuarehe' - co-written by Anna, Noema Te Hau III, Ruth Smith and Kawiti Waetford - means “to be outstanding, marvellous” in English. The waiata features on Anna’s recently released, critically acclaimed album.
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The album has also seen Anna nominated for Best Māori Female Solo Artist at the upcoming Waiata Māori Music Awards.

“It’s a departure from her previous albums; a bilingual body of work in te reo Māori and English, it’s the most collaborative album she’s ever made and it heralds a brand new sound, one which she loosely describes as “Māori funk". Think R&B, rock, soul, pop and lashings of Prince-inspired funk”
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