New Zealand 'tropicalia' singer Daphne Walker died. She was an ethnic Maori who was developed by the NZ music industry in the 1950's to appeal to the Polynesian/exotica market. She also had a bit of success in South Korea due to Australian/NZ troops stationed there after the war. However, she did not like performing or touring, which limited her commercial success. What does /mu/ think of this type of forgotten pop music?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvMFDWRXqKI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekhlyCEUIqw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i-92SnT25k

>New Zealand singer Daphne Walker has died, aged 94.

>Walker was best known for songs likes ‘Haere Mai (Everything is Kapai)’ popular in the 1950s.

>Online music library AudioCulture said Walker was the star vocalist on New Zealand’s first tropical pop album, South Sea Rhythm, and describes her death as the end of an era.

>AudioCulture content director Chris Bourke said Walker was one of the country's first singing stars.

>"She had this velvet voice," he said.

>"She sang with the romance of a film about an idyllic pacific, she has the easy warmth of the islands, is what Nick Bollinger said about her, and she had glamour as well."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/new-zealand-singer-daphne-walker-has-died

>>127076588 (OP)
Rip

>>127076588 (OP)
Requiescat in pace

>>127076588 (OP)
not a big loss desu

>>127080322
the same when you'll die

>>127076588 (OP)
interesting. sort of reminds me of Hawaiian music

>New Zealand 'tropicalia' singer Daphne Walker died in 2025. Not a big loss for music