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Fa'anana Jerome Grey

Fa'anana Jerome Grey
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — Samoan singer-songwriter Fa'anana Jerome Grey will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement award as the 2022 Pacific Music Awards in August return to the life stage. Grey’s iconic song ‘We Are Samoa’ became the unofficial anthem of the country, penned while Grey was...
Grey family portrait
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — Fa'anana Jerome Grey, the man who famously penned the song, 'We Are Samoa' is being celebrated this weekend. Grey was travelling through Alaska in the late 1970s. In that landscape of snow and ice, he became deeply homesick for the tropical islands of his birth. So, he wrote...
Tuioti Lapi Mariner
Apia, SAMOA — It’s been two years since Tuioti Lapi Mariner boarded an airplane for a gig so the world renowned baritone is ready and raring to go for a special guest appearance at the ‘We Are Samoa’ Diamond Gala in California later this month. Tuioti, 44, lives on the Gold Coast of Australia in...
Fa'anana Jerome Grey
Tacoma, WASHINGTON — Renowned Samoan-born entertainer Fa'anana Jerome Grey has been awarded the Polynesian Artist of the Decade award by the Asia Pacific Cultural Center in Washington. The award was one of the highlights of the Samoan Cultural Week held recently. The organizers say the award...