Waka

Che Fu , Music Video – 1999

from the single 2b S.Pacific (1998)

'Waka' is the final single from Che Fu's platinum-selling 1998 debut album 2b S.Pacific. The track opens to Fu's Cook Island drumming layered over a backbeat, immediately signalling his Polynesian inspiration. The lyrics imagine Fu journeying across Pacific waters towards a loved one. Fu is joined by hip hop and soul vocalist Teremoana Rapley, who also plays his faraway sweetheart. Renowned filmmaker Merata Mita shot the award-winning video on location in Hawaii, where she was living at the time. Hawaiian dancers weave a languid spell, the moonlight glimmers and Fu's Pasifika valentine is framed in tapa cloth.