E hau nei ngā rongo o Paraone hai kaitito, hai pūkōrero, hai kaihaka. Kai Te Awamutu a ia e noho ana. Kua roa a ia e tū ana hai kaikōkiri mō te whakarauoratanga o te reo me ngā tikanga Māori. Ko rāua ko tana wahine, ko Ngāhuia Kopa, ngā kaiako me ngā kaiārahi o te kapa haka o Mōtai Tangata Rau. E mōhiotia nei a Paraone i tōna koi ki te tito, tae noa ki tāna whakatū i te kaupapa o Mahuru Māori, he kaupapa tērā e whakatairanga nei i te kōrerotia o te reo ki roto i ō tātau ao o te ia rā, kaua ki te marama o Mahuru anake. Nō te tau kua mahue ake nei ka mutu tāna mahi mā Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, 17 ngā tau i reira. Kai te kōkiri tonu a ia i tētahi kōnae ipurangi ia wiki e kīia nei ko Taringa, he mea whakahaere e Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, ā, he kaupapa reorua hai wānanga i ngā kupu, i ngā kōrero a ngā iwi me ngā tikanga. 

Paraone is a prominent composer, orator and peforming artist and lives in Te Awamutu.  He has been a long-standing advocate for the revitalisation of te reo Māori and tikanga Māori.  Paraone and his partner Ngahuia Kopa, are the tutors and leaders of the kapa haka, Mōtai Tangata Rau.  Paraone is well known for his witty-ness in using te reo for his compositions and is a great advocate of pioneering Mahuru Māori, which promotes speaking te reo in our daily lives not just in the month of September. He finished with Te Wānanga o Aotearoa last year after working for them for 17 years but he still hosts a weekly Podcast along with others called Taringa through Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, which has a bilingual approach to discussing kupu, iwi stories and tikanga.