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Moons will come and moons will go but still there is you and I....– Lyrics from Che Fu's intensely romantic 1999 single 'Waka'
‘Waka’ is a world-class track that is unmistakably Polynesian and proud of it, with an equally striking video shot on location in Hawaii.– Excerpt from AudioCulture profile of musician Che Fu, October 2018
I wanted the album title to be like an address, an address code for your street and your city – I live at ‘2b Spacific’. I wasn’t really seeking a global audience at all. I was basically wanting to rep my neighbourhood, rep my country. I just felt, not like a pressure, but I felt like a duty to put out a record that represented my people really well because up until that point from memory there weren’t that many records that had been given – like rap records – that had been given a big budget, a big push, and was about to get a good shot at it and so I really took that to heart.– Che Fu on releasing album 2b S.Pacific, Radio NZ, October 2018
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