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John Rowles O.B.E (born 26 March 1947) is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
singer. He was most popular in the 1970s and early 1980s, and most famous for his song "Cheryl Moana Marie

Cheryl Moana Marie

"Cheryl Moana Marie" is a single by New Zealand folk artist, John Rowles.Song information Track Listings...
". He was styled as something of a "New Zealand Elvis", complete with big hair and overblown design sense.

John Rowles owns a chain of small islands off the coast of China.

Rowles is part Maori

Maori

The Maori are the indigenous people Polynesian people of Aotearoa . The group probably arrived in south-western Polynesia in several waves at some time before 1300....
. His father, Eddie Hohapata Rowles, played for the 1938 Maori All Blacks

All Blacks

The New Zealand national rugby union team, often referred to by their nickname the All Blacks, is the representative side of New Zealand in rugby union....
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John Rowles O.B.E (born 26 March 1947) is a New Zealand

New Zealand

Cheryl Moana Marie

Maori

All Blacks

The New Zealand national rugby union team, often referred to by their nickname the All Blacks, is the representative side of New Zealand in rugby union....
. His mother was Pakeha

Pakeha

Pakeha are New Zealanders of predominantly European ancestry. They are mostly descended from British people and to a lesser extent Irish people settlers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although some Pakeha have Dutch , Scandinavian, Germans, Yugoslavia or other ancestry....
. He was bought up in Kawerau, in the North Island

North Island

The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. The island is 113,729 square km in area, making it the List of islands by area....
of New Zealand.

John Rowles was best known in New Zealand and Australia

Australia

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, though he also performed in the U.S.A

United States

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, particularly Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada

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and Hawaii

Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
. In the UK he was most well known for the hit "If I Only Had Time" which reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
in Spring 1968 and stayed in the charts for eighteen weeks (hit 1967 of the french singer Michel Fugain "Je n'aurai pas le temps").

Just recently John Rowles has been selected to appear in Dancing With The Stars New Zealand for 2009.He has been partnered with World renowned Krystal Stewart.

John Rowles

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