Mad love to all fans, whanau and friends for all your support....Tiki is stoked to have collected the Awards for Best Maori Songwriter, Best Maori Song (Starship Lullaby) and Best Male Solo Artist last week!!
Tiki missed out on a fourth award, Best Maori Urban Rap/Hip Hop/RnB Album - that honour went to Tatou Tatou E.
Also at this years National Waiata Maori Music Awards, for the first time in its four-year history, two artists have shared the top prize for the best female solo artist.
The 2011 award winners were announced in front of about 800 people at the Hawke's Bay Opera House in Hastings on Thursday night.
Last year singer-songwriter Maisey Rika took home four awards and this year she was one of the guest performers at the awards ceremony.
Singers Anna Coddington and Mina Ripia walked away joint winners for the Best Maori Female Solo Artist award, the first time in the event's history that judges were unable to separate two artists to produce a clear winner.
"This is the most laughs I've ever had at an awards ceremony and it is the first award I have received since I have been releasing my own albums," Anna said to the audience as she received her award.
In the new reggae category, House of Shem was given the award for the Best Maori Urban Roots Album (Island Vibration), ahead of finalists NRG Rising, Katchafire and Juice Box.
Tyna Keelan, Darren Mathiassen and Christopher Yeabsley who together form The Nok, were awarded Best Maori Pop Album.
The Best Maori Traditional Album in Te Reo was awarded to Henare Waitoa (composer) andKahu Waitoa (artist) for the album Nga Waiata o Henare Waitoa.
Two winners from 2010 repeated their success being named on the awards list for this year.
Northland reggae band 1814 again won the Radio Airplay Record of the Year by a Maori Artist in Te Reo Maori award, sponsored by Te Whakaruruhau o nga Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa.
And Stan Walker, also for the second consecutive year, was the recipient of the Radio Airplay Record of the Year Award by a Maori Artist sponsored by NZ on Air.
