| Variations of Name | Fanny Rose Howie | Fanny Porter | Fanny Poata |
| Biography | Fanny Howie was a New Zealand singer and composer. Of Maori descent, she identified with the iwi of Ngati Porou and Te Whanau-a-Apanui. The lullaby "Hine E Hine" is her most famous composition, and she was well-known in Britain as a singer of opera and popular music from 1901 to 1905.
In 1901 she gave her debut performance in Liverpool under the stage name "The Princess Te Rangi Pai", and received praise from critics, after which she performed widely at promenade and formal concerts, charity performances and all England's major concert halls, often aside leading singers of the day. She sang at the Royal Albert Hall on several occasions including at the Grand Irish Festival and Grand Scotch Festival, both in 1902. She also organised a colonial concert that same year at the Queen's Hall, featuring New Zealand and Australian vocalists as well as the performance of a haka by a Maori group who had come to London for the planned coronation of Edward VII. |