Jaedyn Randell

Jaedyn Randell is a Māori recording artist well known for her role in Disney’s Moana reo Māori, voicing the main protagonist Moana at only 16 years old in 2017.
==Life and career==
Tokoroa’s Jaedyn Randell was born 2001 and is of Tainui descent in the Waikato. She attended Hamilton Girls High where she was awarded 2018 Head Girl and Dux. 
She began singing at a young age, where she won her first competition, at the age of 11, run by a New Zealand kids show “What now” in 2013. She blew the audience away with her cover of David Guetta’s “Titanium” and Alicia Keys “This Girl is on Fire”. Jaedyn Randell was heavily involved in kapa haka, where she speaks of how she was “dragged” to kapa Haka practices with her parents as young as 5 years old. This kick started her passion for kapa haka where she was awarded kaitātaki wahine champion at the secondary school nationals in 2018, with “Te Maurea Whiritoi”.
After leaving school in 2018 she was awarded Massey University’s School of Music and Creative Media Production Māori scholarship, studying music technology. Passionate about the revitalisation of Te Reo Māori, this inspired her to compose her first official song in te ro Māori “Patupaiārehe”. This song was featured on Māori Television’s (a New Zealand tv station) -->
Jaedyn Randell is a Māori recording artist well known for her role in Disney’s Moana reo Māori, voicing the main protagonist Moana at only 16 years old in 2017.
== Early Life and Career ==
Tokoroa’s Jaedyn Randell was born 2001 and is of Tainui descent in the Waikato. She attended Hamilton Girls High where she was awarded 2018 Head Girl and Dux (Hamilton Girls High School, 2018). She began singing at a young age, where she won her first competition, at the age of 11, run by a New Zealand kids show “What now” in 2013 (Tapaleao, 2017). She blew the audience away with her cover of David Guetta’s “Titanium” and Alicia Keys “This Girl is on Fire”. Jaedyn Randell was heavily involved in kapa haka, where she speaks of how she was “dragged” to kapa Haka practices with her parents as young as 5 years old (NZ Herald, 2020). This kick started her passion for kapa haka where she was awarded kaitātaki wahine champion at the secondary school nationals in 2018, with “Te Maurea Whiritoi” (Massey University, n.d.). After leaving school in 2018 she was awarded Massey University’s School of Music and Creative Media Production Māori scholarship, studying music technology (Massey University, n.d.). 
== Discography ==
=== Singles ===
As lead singer
Title 	Release Date 	Notes
Patupaiārehe	August 5, 2021	
Passionate about the revitalization of te reo Māori, this inspired her to compose her first official song in te ro Māori “Patupaiārehe”. She speaks of how Patupaiarehe was the first song she composed in te reo Māori, mostly, on her own (Māori Television, 2021). Growing up Randall was immersed in te ao Māori and kapa haka, yet she still struggled with her identity being a fair skinned Māori (Tapaleao, 2017). This song was meant to envoke feelings of confidence from within, and wants to encourage people to be themselves. 
As Guest appearance
Title 	Release Date 	Notes
Te Matatini ki te Ao	December 21, 2018	
== Filmography ==
Film
Release Date	Film 	Role 	Notes
2017 	Moana	Moana (voice)	Moana reo Māori
Moana is based off of the stories of the pacific. It follows the main protaganist Moana who is on an adventure to a prophesised island, with the help of demi god Maui. Moana (english version) had accumalated 645 million usd at the box office (Google, 2022), this inspired Māori creatora Taika Waititi and Tweedie Waititi to dub the hit movie into Te Reo Māori (NZ Herald, 2020). Jaedyn Randell was cast as the voice of Moana.
Television
Release Date	Film 	Role 	Notes
2021 	Waiata Nation	Guest appearance	Episode 1, season 2
The 20 year old was featured in one of 8 episodes in the second season of Waiata Nation. Waiata Nation invites 8 up and coming Māori artists to take on the waiata reo Māori challenge, whereby artists are challenged to write a song in Te reo Māori, and we (the audience) follow a long their journey (Māori Television, 2021). The first episode of season 2 focuses on Jaedyn's journey of composing and singing the song. 
Category:Musicians