"E Ipo" (English: "By Love") is a 1982 song written by

Prince Tui Teka Tumanako "Tui" Teka (8 March 193723 January 1985), better known by his stage names Tui Latui or Prince Tui Teka was a Māori singer and actor. Teka was a member of the Maori Volcanics Showband before having a successful solo career. Career Te ...

and

Ngoi Pēwhairangi Te Kumeroa "Ngoingoi" Pēwhairangi (29 December 1921 – 29 January 1985) was a prominent teacher of, and advocate for, Māori language and culture, and the composer of many songs, including ''Poi E''. She spearheaded the Māori Renaissance in ...

in tribute to Teka's wife Missy, sung bilingually in

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and

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. The song was a number-one single in New Zealand for two weeks. The melody was based on the popular Indonesian love song "Mimpi Sedih" by Aloysius Riyanto that Teka had heard from New Zealand soldiers stationed in Singapore while he was performing overseas from 1980-1982.NZ Folk Song - E Ipo
/ref> The video for the song was taken from a TV special filmed at the Mandalay nightclub in

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. The song later made the ''

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'' compilation, a collection of the top 100 New Zealand songs as voted by members of APRA. "E Ipo", alongside "

Poi E "Poi E" is a New Zealand 1984 number-one hit song by the group Pātea Māori Club off the album of the same name. Released in 1984, the song was sung entirely in the Māori language and featured a blend of Māori cultural practices in the song a ...

" (1984) by the

Pātea Māori Club Pātea Māori Club is a New Zealand cultural group and performance act formed in the South Taranaki District, South Taranaki town of Patea, Pātea in 1967 as the Pātea Methodist Māori Club. In 1983, the group began to release Māori language, ...

(also written by Pēwhairangi) were the first widely successful songs sung in Te Reo Māori in mainstream music, and had a great impact on the promotion of Te Reo and Māori culture in New Zealand.

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Prince Tui Teka - Mum and E Ipo

1982 singles 1982 songs Macaronic songs Number-one singles in New Zealand Māori-language songs Songs written by Ngoi Pēwhairangi Song recordings produced by Dalvanius Prime {{1980s-single-stub