{"id":58406,"date":"2023-09-15T11:55:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T02:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/15\/moana-singer-olivia-foai-gagana-tokelau-lorde-indigenous-lyrics-music"},"modified":"2023-09-15T11:55:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T02:55:38","slug":"moana-vocalist-in-push-to-revive-threatened-pacific-languages-through-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58406","title":{"rendered":"Moana vocalist in push to revive threatened Pacific languages through song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Foa\u2019i and Lorde are among those using indigenous language in music to build culture and connection<\/p>\n<p>As a child, Olivia Foa\u2019i would steal into the recording studio her father had attached to their Auckland home to listen to the best Pacific musicians as they performed. Her favourite memory was hearing her aunt as she sang in Gagana Tokelau, the indigenous language of Tokelau, a collection of atolls halfway between Australia and Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember looking at her like she was my idol. I\u2019d copy whatever she sang,\u201d says Foa\u2019i, one of the Pacific\u2019s most prominent singers and one of the main vocalists behind Disney\u2019s Moana.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/15\/moana-singer-olivia-foai-gagana-tokelau-lorde-indigenous-lyrics-music\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Foa\u2019i and Lorde are among those using indigenous language in music to build culture and connectionAs a child, Olivia Foa\u2019i would steal into the recording studio her father had attached to their Auckland home to listen to the best Pacific musicia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3943,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,947,897,425,56,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lorde","category-maori","category-music","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3943"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58407,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58406\/revisions\/58407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}