Nancy Agag
Sudanese singer-songwriter and recording artist Nancy Agag combines songs from older Sudanese musicians with her own compositions.
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Zitkala-Ša
Zitkála-Šá (“Red Bird”), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Native American musician, writer and activist who fought for women’s suffrage and Indigenous voting rights in the early 20th century. Her writings and activism led to citizenship and voting rights for not only women, but all Indigenous people.
Alice Easton Law
At New Zealand’s Jubilee Institute for the Blind, she taught the piano and encouraged her students to believe that visual impairment was no impediment to music. Using Braille, she guided them through their examinations and produced several high-quality musicians.
Marietta Alboni
Italian contralto singer
Bathia Stuart
She was one of the first New Zealand women to enter the male-dominated field of film-making.
Sorcha Ní Ghuairim
Columnist, newspaper editor and promoter of the Irish language
Brigid Tunney
Coming from a family of renowned singers, she acquired a great number of traditional ballads, learnt from both sides of her family. Possessing a beautifully articulated voice with a considerable range, she was extensively recorded with other members of her family in 1952 by Sean O’Boyle and Peter Kennedy for the BBC. She was important for passing on a wide range of material to the younger generation, a great deal of which could have been forgotten at a time when folk music had apparently fallen out of fashion.
Diedre Irons
Diedre Irons emigrated to New Zealand from Canada in 1977 and was immediately recognised as an outstanding piano soloist and accompanist. Irons held teaching positions at the University of Canterbury and the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington.
Wilma Smith
Violinist Wilma Smith maintained a strong profile as soloist and chamber musician in Australasia.
Rosina Buckman
Rosina Buckman is remembered for her infinite capacity for taking pains, for allowing nothing to interfere with her work, and above all for her unwavering dedication to the art of singing.