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About Opetaia Foa'i
Artist Biography
Opetaia Foa’i is the frontman and composer for Polynesian worldbeat group Te Vaka.
∙ The BBC called Te Vaka “the world’s most successful band playing original contemporary Pacific music.”
∙ Foa’i cowrote the original songs in the 2016 film Moana, in collaboration with Mark Mancina and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
∙ In addition to spending 23 weeks in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart, the soundtrack to Moana won an American Music Award and a Billboard Music Award.
∙ “We Know the Way,” which Foa’i cowrote with Miranda for the Moana soundtrack, was the first song featuring Samoan and Tokelauan lyrics to hit Billboard’s Digital Song Sales chart.
Hometown
Apia, Samoa
Genre
Ambient
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