# Holidaymakers

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**Holidaymakers** was a New Zealand musical group from Wellington. The band scored two top ten hits in New Zealand in 1988, including the number-one single "Sweet Lovers", a cover of the [Bill Withers](/source/Bill_Withers) song "[We Could Be Sweet Lovers](/source/We_Could_Be_Sweet_Lovers)".

"Sweet Lovers" was released on Pagan Records and was produced by [Nigel Stone](/source/Nigel_Stone).[1] The song spent six weeks at #1 in summer 1988[2] and was the highest-selling single in New Zealand in 1988.[3] The follow-up single, "Waiting in the Sunshine", reached #6 in December of that year.[4]

At the [New Zealand Music Awards](/source/New_Zealand_Music_Awards) 1988, the group won seven awards.[5] However, the group broke up soon after the release of "Waiting in the Sunshine".

Among the band's members was [Pati Umaga](/source/Pati_Umaga), who went on to work in composition and music education at [Whitireia Polytechnic](/source/Whitireia_Polytechnic), and who became an advocate for physical disability after a 2005 accident [paralysed](/source/Paralysis) him.[6]

## References

1. [New Zealand classics that aren't – part two](https://www.audioculture.co.nz/scenes/new-zealand-classics-that-aren-t-part-two). Audioculture.co.nz, 14 July 2017.

1. [Sweet Lovers charts](https://charts.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Holidaymakers&titel=Sweet+Lovers&cat=s)

1. [Ten great New Zealand love songs](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/ten-great-new-zealand-love-songs-videos/2CKJRBDXBQVAA2OVNQ5Q6RKYEM/). *[New Zealand Herald](/source/New_Zealand_Herald)*, 13 February 2014.

1. [Waiting in the Sunshine charts](https://charts.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Holidaymakers&titel=Waiting+In+The+Sunshine&cat=s)

1. [The Holidaymakers](https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-holidaymakers/artist), NZonscreen

1. [Pati honoured for his work to remove disability stigma](https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/hutt-news/6233228/Pati-honoured-for-his-work-to-remove-disability-stigma). *[Stuff.co.nz](/source/Stuff.co.nz)*, 10 January 2012.

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