Tui Uru (20 January 1926 – 26 April 2013) was a New Zealand opera singer and broadcaster. She was the first Māori television announcer.
Early life and family
Born in Wellington on 20 January 1926, Uru affiliated to the Ngāi Tūāhuriri hapū of Ngāi Tahu. She was the daughter of the Reform Party Member of Parliament for Southern Maori, Henare Whakatau Uru, and his second wife, Gladys Constance Mary Uru (née Rogers), who was Australian from Albury, New South Wales. Uru's father died in 1929 when she was three years old, and she was educated at Ouruhia School and Christchurch Girls' High School. Uru took singing lessons, attaining the award of Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music. In 1944, her brother, Henare Whakatau "K" Uru, a pilot officer in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, was killed on active service. Tui Uru was the great-aunt of rowers Jade and Storm Uru.
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