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Chris Butcher wrote, 'His name is Jonathan Lemalu,' and explained, 'Like Kiri Te Kanawa he's a Maori.'
Are you sure he's a Maori in the same way she is? The Maori language has no /l/, and the Maori definite article is /te/, not /le/. For a Maori name, one would expect _Te Maru_ or _Temaru,_ not _Lemalu._
_Lemalu,_ however, makes sense in Samoan, in which it can be glossed 'The-shelter' and 'The-crowd', or, if the /u/ is long, 'The-seine' and 'The-bass (musical reference)'.
Does this singer have a Maori mother and a Samoan father? or what? And where does the stress in _Lemalu_ fall?
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