Maori singer dead
PA Wellington A Maori singer, Isobe] Cowan, has died in Sydney, aged 38. Mrs Cowan, who played the part of Clara jn the New Zealand Opera Company’s production of “Porgy and Bess” in 1965, was born in Hawke’s Bay and began her musical career as one of the “Clive Trio.” The “Porgy and Bess” production, which starred Inia Te Wiata, toured Australia for six months, and the company later made a
record on which Inia Te Wiata and Mrs Cowan sang well known Maori melodies. ‘Mrs Cowan, whose family settled in Australia after the tour, visited Expo 70 in Japan with the Maori Theatre Trust, which later made a five-week tour of Moscow, Budapest, and Greece. .Mrs Cowan, whose bodv will lie at her husband’s marae at Kauwhata, near Feilding, before burial this week, is survived by her ! husband, Mr Peter Cowan, a son, and four daughters.
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