Mere Boynton (Te Aitanga a Mahaki, Ngāti Oneone and Tuhoe) was a young girl when her mother, Tangi, picked up a ukulele and taught her to sing her first song, but decades later she points to that moment as an influential one, along with the books she read with her father, Norman, a farm manager and dog triallist.
Brought up on a farm an hour
