Kiwi entertainer Tina Cross has been in show business for more than four decades. The 62-year-old has been a professional performer since she was 16 and continues to entertain throughout Aotearoa. But among the many highlights of a distinguished career that has seen her win first place in the 1979 Pacific Song Contest, a Royal Command performance in 1980 and the award of an ONZM in 2008, she rates teaching prisoners among her proudest achievements.
Becoming a tutor and devising a singing programme for inmates in men’s and women’s prisons across Auckland and Northland has satisfied her long-held wish to help others.
As a child, Tina always wanted to be
