Naida Glavish Naida Glavish Dame Rangimarie Naida Glavish is a New Zealand politician and Māori community leader from the Ngāti Whātua iwi. From 2013 to 2016, she was President of the Māori Party. Glavish first came to national attention in 1984, when she was a telephone operator for the New Zealand Post Office, and used the Māori language greeting "kia ora" when dealing with callers. She was threatened with dismissal by her supervisor, but the prime minister of the day, Robert Muldoon, supported Glavish's use of the phrase. A member of Mana Motuhake, Glavish stood for the Alliance in the Te Tai
Kia Shine upcoming Mixtape "2000 Shine" via DatPiff. The single features Maino & Young Dro and samples part of Jay-Z's verse from "Swagga Like Us". The music video was directed by Kurt Williams and was the "New Joint of the Day" on 106 & Park July 3. Kia Shine released the first of his Alarm Clock Theory mixtape series which was made popular by his phrase "Everybody sleeping on me will wake up working for me". This project was very well received and received over 100,000 downloads. In September 2010 Kia Shine won another BMI award for his contribution to the lyrics