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Radio Tonga plays music from local Tongan musical groups, Fijian and Samoan bands, Hawaiʻian music, etc. It also broadcasts church services and choir competitions, so it disseminates church music as well as popular music. The Tongan groups usually feature strong vocals, solo or choral, haunting minor key harmonies, and guitar backup.
Pages in category "Songs in Tongan" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. K. Ko e fasi ʻo e tuʻi ʻo e ʻOtu Tonga
The Best of The Jets is the first greatest hits album by Tongan-American family band ... It featured four new songs, including "Special Kinda Love", "Sendin ...
The Jets are a Tongan American pop and R&B family band from Robbinsdale, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. [1] The Jets are composed of brothers and sisters LeRoy, Eddie, Eugene, Haini, Rudy, Kathi, Elizabeth, and Moana Wolfgramm, who perform pop, R&B, and dance music. [2]
Then & Now is the seventh studio album by Tongan-American family band The Jets, released on August 25, 1998, by Cold Front.. At this point, the band only had four of the original members remaining but also had three new members, all younger siblings of the older members.
The songs used with the Mako feature lyrics in Tongan.Their themes are most often drawn from nature and daily life or occasionally from the Bible.Additionally, one of the best-known refrains, toli he siale, is a double entendre; it can mean "picking flowers".
Alternatively, "Isa Lei" is the Fijian version of a Tongan love song ("Ise Isa viola lose hina") used to court the then Princess Salote (later Sālote Tupou III). [4] [5] It was written in 1915 and was heard by a visiting Fijian sergeant. From there, the Fijians adopted it to a farewell song, but they kept the Tongan melody. [6] [7]
Sōkē or eke is a Tongan group dance performed with sticks which the performers hit against each other on the beat of the drum. It has some common elements with, but is a complete independent development from the English Morris dance. As with most Tongan dances, the whole performance is to dazzle the spectators and to please the chiefs.