Singers Micah Lua (left), Lesley Nia Nia and Destiny Pahuru make up the Nia Nia Whanau who were presented with the 2020 senior entertainer of the year award at the event on Saturday. Picture supplied
Their performance of Kostas Lazarides’ Timber, I’m Falling in Love, and Texan country musician Creed Fisher’s Come Hold Me, has won a Gisborne trio a first placing in this year’s New Zealand Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year Awards.
Singers Micah Lua, Lesley Nia Nia and Destiny Pahuru make
up the Nia Nia Whanau who were presented with the 2020 senior entertainer of the year award at the event on Saturday.
Under the banner The Nia Nias last year, the trio brought home the Pounamu Country Music Awards top trophy, which they won with their performance of Anne Murray’s 1971 song Cotton Jenny.
