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 song "We Could Be Sweet Lovers".
"Sweet Lovers" was released on Pagan Records and was produced by Nigel Stone.New Zealand classics that aren't – part two. Audioculture.co.nz, 14 July 2017. The song spent six weeks at #1 in summer 1988Sweet Lovers charts and was the highest-selling single in New Zealand in 1988.Ten great New Zealand love songs. New Zealand Herald, 13 February 2014. The follow-up single, "Waiting in the Sunshine", reached #6 in December of that year.Waiting in the Sunshine charts
At the New Zealand Music Awards 1988, the group won seven awards.The Holidaymakers, NZonscreen However, the group broke up soon after the release of "Waiting in the Sunshine".
Among the band's members was Pati Umaga, who went on to work in composition and music education at Whitireia Polytechnic, and who became an advocate for physical disability after a 2005 accident paralysed him.Pati honoured for his work to remove disability stigma. Stuff.co.nz, 10 January 2012.
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