| E Ipo | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Prince Tui Teka |
| Album: | The Man, The Music, The Legend |
| Genre: | Contemporary Māori |
| Length: | 3:45 |
| Label: | Tui Records, RCA Victor |
| Prev Title: | E Hine Hoki Mai |
| Prev Year: | 1974 |
| Next Title: | I Need Your Love |
| Next Year: | 1983 |
"E Ipo" (English: "By Love") is a 1982 song written by Prince Tui Teka and Ngoi Pēwhairangi[1] in tribute to Teka's wife Missy, sung bilingually in Māori and English. The song was a number-one single in New Zealand for two weeks.[2]
The melody was based on the popular Indonesian love song "Mimpi Sedih" by Aloysius Riyanto that Teka had heard from New Zealand soldiers stationed in Singapore[3] while he was performing overseas from 1980-1982.[4] [5]
The video for the song was taken from a TV special filmed at the Mandalay nightclub in Newmarket, Auckland. The song later made the Nature's Best 3 compilation, a collection of the top 100 New Zealand songs as voted by members of APRA.[6]
"E Ipo", alongside "Poi E" (1984) by the Pātea Māori Club (also written by Pēwhairangi) were the first widely successful songs sung in Te Reo Māori in mainstream music, and had a great impact on the promotion of Te Reo and Māori culture in New Zealand.[7]