John Edward Rowles OBE is a New Zealand singer. He was most popular in the 1970s and early 1980s, and best known in New Zealand for his song Cheryl Moana Marie, which he had written about his younger sister.
Rowles was born in Whakatane, New Zealand, and is part M?ori. His father, Eddie Hohapata Rowles, played for the 1938 M?ori All Blacks. His mother was P?keh?. He was brought up in Kawerau, in the North Island of New Zealand. Rowles' birth name was simply John Rowles; he added the middle name...
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