Wonderful (Erakah song)

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"Wonderful"
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Single by Erakah
Released21 September 2009
Genre Pop music, R&B
Length4:02
Label Illegal Musik/Warner
Songwriter(s) I Finau, K Bennison, D Love
Producer(s) DLOVE, NOX [1]
Erakahsingles chronology
"Infatuated"
(2009)
"Wonderful"
(2009)
"Your Style"
(2009)

"Wonderful" is the second single by New Zealand pop and R&B singer Erakah. It was released by Illegal Musik on 21 September 2009. [2]

Erakah won the Best Pacific Female Artist award at the 2010 Pacific Music Awards for "Wonderful". [3]

Music video

The music video for "Wonderful" was directed by Ivan Slavov. [4] It shows Erakah reminiscing about her failed romance, before she and her boyfriend got back together.

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References

  1. "Erakah's new single 'Wonderful'". Illegal Musik. 7 October 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  2. "Wonderful". Digirama . Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  3. "S3 Pacific Music Award Winners Announced" (Press release). Pacific Music Awards. 30 May 2010. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  4. "Erakah Wonderful video". NME . Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2010.