The Samoa-born artist has written music for all three Moana films.
Opetaia Foa‘i attends Disney's "Moana" Special Event at ICC Sydney Theatre on June 25, 2026 in Sydney, Australia.
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If you’ve seen Moana, then you know that the songs are not just performed in English. That’s thanks to Opetaia Foa‘i. He’s on a quest to share real Pacific Island culture with the world. Opetaia wrote music for Moana, Moana 2 and now the live-action Moana, out in theaters Friday.
“It’s very important to me to write using Pacific Island languages in a Polynesian movie,” he tells Cricket Media’s Spider magazine. “I think the listener appreciates that it adds authenticity to the film.”
