Bula vinaka from Fiti (Fiji). My father once told me the story of the Tuvalu tragedy when i was 7. I remember him telling me with tears in his eyes how the young girls didn't make it that night and he told me how everybody in the Pacific pains when a country or a tragedy occurs because we're all interconnected as Pasifika. Now i am 19 and studying at University discovering this song brought back memories of the tragedy of my Pasifika (Pacific) neighbors of Tuvalu. I cried more like my father because he felt the pain as if those 19 young girls were his own. We are connected Moana-wide (Oceania-wide)..Vinaka

@wodinjormelu6568

5 жыл бұрын

wait what happened??

@wodinjormelu6568

5 жыл бұрын

@Tuxe735 thank u!

@eshekpillay516

4 жыл бұрын

This is deep ❤

@Roselyroses

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry for the loss. Children are so innocent. Their happiness is pure.

@senecan100

2 жыл бұрын

Never forget those sorrows of the past so as to not let them repeat themselves

As a father of a beautiful 3 year old daughter, I have watched Moana, many times... many many times. This song always struck me though, and although it is in a launguage totaly alien to me, I couldn't help but feel the sorrow. Having found this video (and others of it being sung live) I now understand the meaning and reason, I now share your sorrow. Each time I again, watch Moana with my daughter, I shall hold her a just a little closer. There are great oceans between us, but distance is meaningless if you hold love in your heart. Its Beautiful song and loving tribute.

@Fuccupples

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah.

@ha-y-n-n-wat6939

2 жыл бұрын

Same exact situation here, it jus grabbed me in a way I couldn’t explain or ignore I ended up researching it and I cried learning and reading the story about what happened , may their souls Rest In Peace and may their families be able to find comfort and peace forever and ever , godbless.

@dixiadegracia5029

2 жыл бұрын

Que vas

@jaminovaa

9 ай бұрын

This comment is 5 years old ... how are you and your daughter doing?

@mariafilipa6983

3 ай бұрын

Sir, that was beautiful

The lyrics are so meaningful and so touching.May the souls of this 19 young girls rest in eternal peace.

@Anna2k5

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yes!! RIP

Before I even known the story behind the beautiful song, I cried all throughout the whole song, then when I discovered the history behind the song, it made me tear up even more, that heart wrenching feeling 🥺 No matter how many times I've listen this song , Tears still roll down my cheeks ❤️

I've fallen in love with this language ever since i watched moana back then in 2016. Much love from africa- kenya

@kapimanen819

3 жыл бұрын

Me 2

@xxjungkookxx5835

3 жыл бұрын

rosebela jepkemei thank you guys I'm Samoan and really appreciate it

@halplesslee_

3 жыл бұрын

Same

Learned the lyrics in my teens. I am from Greenland in the arctic and my brother had a cd were this specific song was on. Still remember the words. First now I learn the great meaning of the lyrics. So powerful!

It’s crazy how this song came to me in a dream, today when I woke up it was the first song I listened to. It was 5 in the morning and I just needed to listen to this song and cry to it. Then I read about the girls and it just brought me down to more tears may their souls rest in paradise. 😔💖

Wow, this was heartbreaking! I wasn't there, but the tone of this song seriously captures what happened as it happened. And when you watch the film, it's that same voice giving Moana a prophetic calling. Those nineteen young women will forever be immortalised by that film, as it's their song and the lady who sung it that began the whole mission.

Thanks for making this song in honour of the 19 girls! RIP to these beautiful souls❤️

Talofa lava from samoa🇼🇸 this story has been heard in samoa about how 19 girls from tuvalu were killed in a fire, we were shocked as a pacific islander it's painful because it feels like one of my family members had jst passed away**🌴 o o'u loi mata e maligi o lo'u loto ua fa'anoanoa tau galo atu na'i o'u tei pele, e faigata ona fa'malamalama wow😢😰💯as a fluent samoan speaker, i could almost understand the words RIP sorry for your loss little one's kalofae😢 tuvalu!!...💙💞💖SAMOA LOVE'S TUVALU***

Watching this with English translation brings tears, may their beautiful soul rest in peace. Isaaa

I've just been made known of this beautiful songs tragedy..😔 but I'm assured, they're in a better place To all the living, God bless u all with Hes grace and overwhelming love From fiji...to Tuvalu 🇹🇻 and elsewhere, vinaka

I remember going to the live show in Auckland and we got to meet 2 survivors and omg their cries when they heard the girls reenact the screaming and crying they said it was like it just happened the day before… Rest in Love to the 19 girls and their Teacher ❤️ This song will always remind us of the tragedy and we will never forget it..

Just can't stop listening to it with my little daugther. Pure emotion

watching this because of the Moana song. it's the same song but very different feel. this feels so sad... what a beautiful song for the memory of a tragic event.

🌺🌴🌊🐚🍍🌋🌸🐠🐬🐙🐳🐟🐋 being in California and not understanding the words to this, I could tell it had a chunk in my throat, special meaning that I couldn't understand. I am so proud and greatful that someone finally translated this lovely melody. my heart is in my mouth as it has more meaning than before to me. how devastating to hear the real true meaning behind the song. May the Lord bless all of those families and friends of the ones lost during the fire. I love Te Vaka. what they did for Disney Moana Is truly something so special, I hope I am able to personally thank each and every one of them, to see all of Oceania and visit with all of the people. I know how important they all are to me as we are all O'HANA, family. 👑 HRH PRINCESS TIFFANY REED KINGDOM OF MAUI HAWAI'I AND OCEANIA

@srabukawaqa9060

6 жыл бұрын

Find out the truth about this heart touching song about my sisters from Tuvalu. We Pasifika (Pacific) are interconnected Moana-wide(Oceania-wide) www.tuvaluislands.com/news/archived/2000/2000-03-21.htm

I remember when I was in college when my teacher tell us the story about Tuvaluan girls who lost their lives when a fire broke down in their boarding school..its so sad to hear... Now I'm 20 I always remember those days when I heard this song.. Rest in peace Angels.. From your neighbour Kiribati

This song just take away my soul. RIP To the nineteen young lives 😔

Loimata e maligi tagisia ❤😔😔😔 rest in love sister from tuvalu ..from new caledonia 🇳🇨❤💙

I try to always research things, so I researched the history of this beautiful song from Moana. The history is that its about 19 girls desth in a boarding school. What happend was a girl was studying at night and there was a candle at a mosquito net. The candle tipped over. The windows and the doors were boarded to seperate the boys from the girls, so they sadly couldn’t leave. It’s very tragic, so may they rest in oeace 👼🏻🕊

Very beautiful song, behind the tragic story.. rest in paradise tinogafulu mo tokoiva.. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

kalofa tamaliki fafine... thanks for translating our Tuvalu words for everyone to understand.

TUVALU big love from new caledonia island ❤❤❤🏝🏝🏝🤙💯💪🇳🇨🇳🇨🇹🇻🇹🇻

i'm tuvaluan i understand this its so sad to hear this song.

Just attended a funeral for my friend's son. His mom is micronesian (I believe they're polynesians). This song is so appropriate right now

@rugbymaniacs2534

3 жыл бұрын

There are 3 distinct groups that make up the South Pacific islands. 1. Melanesians 2. Polynesians and 3. the micronesians

@Jolof-rice

3 жыл бұрын

@@rugbymaniacs2534 why u say the Micronesian like that 🤧

Tuvaluans have such a beautiful culture! 😍😍😍

Very sweet song I cry to this every time I hear this song

@borneokids

8 жыл бұрын

Yes, very sweet.

@karencarrillo3775

7 жыл бұрын

Kalei Alameida same, her voice really transmits the feelings

@kiwi_star808

7 жыл бұрын

Yep I bought it off of iTunes and I love this song

Rest easy to these Island queens. The Moana and it's people will always remember you

I always loved this song, it was so beautiful when I first heard it. Now learning the history behind the song, it just broke my heart. I feel your pain, and I pray those 19 girls may rest in peace, and I pray for their families and friends too.

this makes me cry i love tuvalu and now its nearly gone the population :(

@sasy1533

4 жыл бұрын

This is what makes me cry the most. And sorry to rant under a three years old comment. But the saddest line there is that they lost the future of a nation. And they really were. Future wife's, mothers, teachers, doctors... Who knows what they could have done for their community. We live in big cities now, most of us. Nineteen lives, it's a tragedy, but it doesn't affect our future whatsoever. We feel sorry for the families and then we move on. But they have lost so much more...

It is really heart broken to hear about the girl in tuvalu they are now in a good place rest in peace😔 honestly around the end when it showed the kids at school it hit my heart and i literally cried the song was so beautiful & sad, dedicated for the girls who died in the fire in tuvalu boarding school😭😭😭😭😄😄

@jeremiahschuster5207

6 жыл бұрын

Mana Ngatupuna

@jonahmerlyn9705

5 жыл бұрын

Thats Nauti tho not motufoua at the end (2 years late)

The most beautiful song I've heard

Every time I come back to listen to this beautiful dedicated song my tears always fall. Deep sorrow

This made me cry! So sad and great dedication

Man!!! This is so heart touching. I wish one who was in the time of this incident, will share more about this in the comment here. Rest In Love A Fakapelepele!!!.

I love this song too much i am 35 and still one of a fan of kids movies i really appreciate the story and the theme songs, so touchy and heart ❤❤❤❤❤😍😍😍😍

Peace from east Borneo 🌹🇮🇩❤

Ive heard this song from yrs ago &fell inlove with it🥰but today I've just found out the tragic lost behind this song😥😥💔💔💔R.I.L R.I.P to the 19young ladies taken away on that tragic night..Condolences to all their families🥺🥺🥺All our Island hearts beats as ONE💖💙💖💙💖💙💖🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Amazing song. Why does tragedy inspire such beauty? Sounds like angels crying.

c'est très émotionnel, j'aime cette chanson de tout mon cœur.

@nocomment2446

3 жыл бұрын

L'histoire est triste tragique

@maurahennessy444

3 жыл бұрын

je ne parle pas français, je regret

Fakalofa laa a Tamaliki konei ne mate😭😭😭 alofa atu loa kia koutou...... *translation* what a pity and sad story about these 18 girls who died in Motufoua secoundry school (mss) i would like to thanx the Te vaka group for the song and The for the leader of Te vaka u have shown ur part Tuvaluan..........

The first time I heard this song in Moana, it touchef my heart. I really dont know why but something in the song was calling you and yet sad, calming

@vixen_wonder6125

4 жыл бұрын

This song is dedicated to the 19 young girls who sadly perished in a school fire in the 2000s :(

My Dad told me about this while we were listening to it after Moana..he seemed very sad about it I had look it up😢 love from Vanuatu❤

Love this song! So inspirational!

Man, everytime i hear this song, i will never forget what happened❤❤

Love this lyrics..

This song reminds me of the 19 lives lost in a tragic fire at a school dormitory here in my country, Guyana 2023💔

Beautiful song, Te Vaka Tuvaluan

Just amazing!

I gave off Goosebumps,just this song is so good

This song is stuck in my ear. I love this song.

Beautiful 💕

heartbreakingly beautiful. no wonder this part pulled at my heart strings, watching moana bought me here and to the cause.

Aumai atu kia koutou...telongo aloha ote henua... from Taumako 😍❤️...

Such a sweet song, may God protect for ever...

god bless the souls of those young girls

i love this song from the 1st time I heard it. and now since I know the lyrics, it made me heart breaking 😢

I love this song ❤

Amazing video and song

@borneokids

8 жыл бұрын

I agree...Thanks

I love this song ❤️️❤️️❤️️🙏🏻

I’m watching this what it looks like in Tuvalu and I’m very sorry for your lost Tuvalu I always wanted to see my culture ever since I was 4

Ofa atu ki he tamaiki oku nau mate i he afe. I send out my love to the girls who this song is dedicated to. Ofa atu mei Tonga.

@klyseet9346

4 жыл бұрын

Critico Tingka Critico Tingka 👍🏽 I should have translated it. The first sentence is: I send my love to the kids who died in the fire. Ofa atu is a difficult sentence to translate because while it does pertain to sending out love, it goes beyond that. Than, the last sentence is: Love from Tonga.

The sweet children.😞You’re deeply missed

Love the song ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

I Love this song very much this music make me cry Thanks for this music video

Beautiful singing!!!🤙

Let the healing flow over us❤ my beloved hearts❤

Waaw I love this song so much

I found this song so beautiful, after knowing the back story of this song it's broke my heart 😢 rest in peace for the 19 fairy island 🌹

Prayers for Tonga 2022 🇹🇴 ❤️

Listening this in 2020 avoiding COVID19 yet this song is on repeat ❤ RIP to those angels 🙌

Moana sent me here (in search for a longer version of that epic 1 minute song)...

I know it is a very very tragedy painful story behind it but this track is my all favorite. I love it so much and it always restore my inner power again

My niece favorite movie brought me here.....

hermos😍😍

Yet this still brokes my heart 😞 The lyrics too. Rest in peace angels. You will always be in our heart and memory ❤️

Moana sent me here.

@multidimensionalll

7 жыл бұрын

o_o' same

@Daniel-eq4xt

7 жыл бұрын

o_o' this song is for the 19 girls who died in Tuvalu...

@hondaclass295

6 жыл бұрын

+Daniel why do they die?

@CoolAsFreya

6 жыл бұрын

But Opetaia Foa'i rewrote lyrics to this piece for Moana, called "An innocent warrior", since it held a heavy place in all of the members of Te Vaka's heart.

@g.5558

6 жыл бұрын

Honda Class A fire burnt down the entire school. How the fire started? A student lighted a candle to read but the candle fell and burned down the entire girls dorm while the doors & windows were shut

❤️❤️❤️pelepele......

Wow amazing

😭rest in love beautiful island sisters💔💜💜

may those angels rest in peace🕊💕

I love this one song

2021. I still listening to this beautiful song. It really cleanse my soul.

When I listen to this song, it is as if Mother Gaia were speaking to us, asking us to give her our sadness and our burdens to transmute them and thus heal the Female Lineage and with it the cosmic Womb that we all share as a UNITY and part of the ALL that we are.

Nice one.

😢😢😢😊😊😊❤❤❤ BEAUTIFUL ❤❤❤❤

crying look land hawaii it is wonderful land i love hawaii.........

@faapaiatafue967

5 жыл бұрын

Tthis is tuvalu!!!!

i like it

I've always wondered why this song makes me wanna tear up so much. Now i know know why, and i don't even understand the lyrics ❤

@mystic8raven51

7 ай бұрын

This song is written in remembrance of 19 girls who died in a boarding school fire on a Pacific Island.

That island looks nice

This is so peaceful

Kua galo atu ❤️👌 pour toi Hiné

Isaa rest in peace beautiful souls

i wonder what those 42 dislikes are thinking

He ʻumikūmāiwa mau ʻuhane nani i loko o ko mākou mau puʻuwai a mau loa aku.

@borneokids

2 жыл бұрын

mahalo no kou mau manao

Loimata e maligi Toku loto fanoanoa Ko galo atu A fakapelepele Omai te fakamafanafanaga Solo te mae tenei Ko galo atu Na tamafine Omai te fakamafanafanaga Faigata fakamalamalama Tino gafulu ma te toko iva Ave ai te lumanai A te atunuku Omai te fakamafanafanaga Solo te mae tenei Ko galo atu Na tamafine A fakapelepele Omai te fakamafanafanaga Solo te mae tenei Ko galo atu Na tamafine Loimata e maligi Toku loto fanoanoa Ko galo atu A fakapelepele Loimata e maligi

Yes

Thanks for the translation

Na'poddong i lago-mu Let your tears fall Hågu låhyan taiminagof You are full of sorrow Pot ta malingu For we have lost Buyada pot ta adai Many of our loved ones Na'kemakemåtai i lutu Leave the sorrow dying Hinågua i piniti Wash out the pain Pot ta malingu For we have lost Ta famalao'an Our women Gue' duru para mamaisen It's hard to ask for Håfa lina'la-ñiha falaguaihon Why their life were stolen away Kon i mama'låhi nai With the courageous, thus I taotao diseha The people's hope Na'kemakemåtai i lutu Leave the sorrow dying Hinågua i piniti Wash out the pain Pot ta malingu For we have lost Ta famalao'an Our women

sad song