Allana Goldsmith
Vocalist · Composer · Te Reo Māori artist
Allana is a Māori contemporary jazz artist from the Tairawhiti region, East Coast of the North Island of Aotearoa. Her iwi are Ngāti Porou and Ngāi Tai ki Torere.
She has featured at major festivals across the country, most recently at the Tauranga National Jazz Festival where she sold out her tribute show to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. From 2015 to 2018 she released an EP of five original waiata in te reo Māori — three of them funded by Te Māngai Pāho.
Allana's songwriting moves freely between folk, country, and funky soulful tunes — a warm contralto voice channeling the great jazz vocalists of the past, with the joy and presence audiences rarely encounter on stage today.
