Page 25 - Stan Walker News Today

The musician opens up about love, healing and why he's introducing the country to his whānau.

Yachting: Prada Cup Finals TVNZ 1, 3pm It’s crunch time for the Challengers in the finals of the Prada Cup. This week Luna Rossa and Ineos Team UK battle it out for a shot at wrestling the Auld Mug from the grasp of Team New Zealand when the America’s Cup begins in March. Continues Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. Watergate Prime, 8.30pm This acclaimed documentary explores the botched political plot that led to the downfall of US President Richard Nixon in 1972, and which also sparked the no...

The Beths, Chelsea Jade, Shihad Cover Split Enz On ‘True Colours, New Colours Collection Chris Cudby / Image: The Beths / Photo credit: Mason Fairey / Friday 12th February, 2021 9:04AM    Split Enzs canonical 1980 studio album True Colours, a bevvy of Australasian talents have recorded fresh takes on the Finn Brothers multi-platinum opus on  True Colours, New Colours. Aotearoa artists reimagining the records classic tunes include power-pop champs The Beths putting their own amp...

After CVS announced it will begin administering coronavirus vaccines to Virginians ages 65 and older on Friday, February 12, many people were left wondering why they don’t qualify for these vaccinations even though they’re at high risk.

Love, love, love, love Twenty thousand people in Tauranga homegrown superstars L.A.B came on stage to close the two-day One Love Festival, wowing the adoring crowd with their latest chart topping hit Why Oh Why – a song that sums up the One Love phenomena. The sold-out event, presented by Pato Entertainment alongside Greenroom Vodka and Mai FM wrapped up on Sunday night with thousands flooding through the gates each day at Tauranga’s Wharepai Domain to see the best of New Zealand roots a...

Stuff Entertainment? Supplied image for London Zoo: An Extraordinary Year. Less about the wall and more about the people whose lives it dominates, Michael Chiklis plays a former US Border Patrol agent who switches codes to smuggle people into America in Coyote (from Wednesday, February 10, TVNZ OnDemand). From highly acclaimed director Michelle Maclaren ( Breaking Bad, Westworld), this ten-part series is being dropped in one fell swoop for those partial to the odd binge. Meanwhile, there i...

• Source:  1 NEWS The Royal Navy band has delivered a lively rendition of Stan Walkers Aotearoa as part of Waitangi Day commemorations. Your playlist will load after this ad The performance was part of the Royal NZ Navy Beat Retreat and Ceremonial Sunset. Source: 1 NEWS Yesterdays performance was held on the Upper Treaty Grounds a...

   producers and was told he was too lazy to win. It was the pre-production auditions: contestants face two before the televised audition in front of the shows celebrity judges. Walker sailed through the first audition, but during his second he was confronted with racist stereotypes. "You know, you Polynesians think you can just walk in here and just sing, but youre all lazy," one man said. Watch: Stan Walkers Idol audition. Post continues below video. Video via Channel 10. Walker told him he...

MONIQUE FORD/STUFF Pop star Stan Walker is raring to get back to work and doesn’t want to be defined by his survivor status. It’s hard to write about Stan Walker without trotting out tired phrases like ‘triumph over adversity’ or ‘beating the odds’. As documented in his memoir Impossible: My Story, Walker’s at-times difficult childhood featured violence, poverty and, arguably, one of the worst forms of abuse. Born in Australia, he grew up in New Zealand and in his birth country...

In fact, it was Ardern who was the inspiration for the Southlander’s new business that uses recycled tyre tubes that are made into earrings and necklaces. In the midst of lockdown, Spencer-McDonald says she and her family became somewhat “Covid nerds” ensuring they were all together as a family to watch the afternoon briefings. On one of those occasions in May 2020, the Prime Minister was wearing long earrings and that was enough to provide the gem of an idea to launch her new business...