Why do we accept definitions of how our people should be?

Based off of written accounts of a man that looks nothing like me.

He could speak our language, but not from his heart.

When he wrote a history he set us apart.

Abandoned and bruised left alone in the dark.

Storytelling, for me, it feels like a way to kind of reconnect with our roots and our identity.

My ancestors have passed down so many of our stories orally and a lot of our history wasn't written.

And so for me, storytelling is really, really important because it's a way of using our voices to tell our own stories, you know?

And so I think every single Indigenous person is a storyteller.

That's what we came from, and that's at the root of who we are.

Stripped down, torn apart, chipped away piece of our heart I started singing from a really young age, but I hated it like a kid growing up, but then it wasn't until I learned how to play the guitar, I realized, oh, like this, I like singing.

Ricochet, you take your aim, fire away, fire away I started kind of getting used to singing in front of people and then I started writing music.

This one song called "Dear Society," and that one was about my late older sister who passed away from cancer.

She had cancer of the face.

So she had a lot of surgery on her face.

And so I wrote this song about what it feels like to be in a society where being conventionally attractive is the standard.

Cause nobody's perfect, but that's all we have to be.

A smile's an only option.

Don't you dare look unhappy.

And so after I wrote that one, I was like, Oh, I can write how I feel about issues in a way where it's my way of sharing, how I feel about things.

And so from there I realized that this is what I wanted to do.

I wanted to write music.

And for me, I like writing songs more than I like performing, but I still enjoy performing because I'm able to perform it the way that I want to.

And I'm able to share my messages the way that I want to as well.

Here we are lifting our voices pushing for better choices, no longer silent.

Time to start healing.

Yeah, a lot of the ones where I hope to get messages out of really does come from the fact that I've performed in these spaces that influenced me in that sort of way.

I was lucky enough to start performing to bigger audiences in a space that was more focused around conservation and nature and environmentalist.

It sort of inspired me to write more about issues related to things like that.

Getting connected to Nia Tero as well, that allowed me to sort of expand even further to the Indigenous side of it and how Indigenous people connect with nature.

OH OH OH OH There is hope, there is strength, there is power, there is change, in you and I, in you and I.

There is hope, there is strength, there is power, I'm really keen on going back to Tonga, getting involved in politics.

My really, really big dream is to be a Prime Minister one day, but that's like the really aspirational goals.

This is me.

This is mana.

This is me.

This is mana.

This is me.

This is mana.

This is me.