Email: nikau.wineera@wcc.govt.nz
Nīkau Wi Neera (Ngāti Toarangatira, Kāi Tahu) was born in Newtown, and grew up between Wellington and Plimmerton before moving up the coast to his ancestral homeland of Kāpiti for school.
Nīkau is a direct paternal descendant of Te Rauparaha, paramount ariki of the Wellington region prior to the outbreak of the land wars, and hails from Takapūwāhia and Hongoeka marae. Nīkau also has whakapapa to Caernarfon, Wales, on his mother's side, and to the iwi of Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Pāhauwera on his grandmother's.
Nīkau composes music for feature films and is a practitioner of Māori traditional instruments.