Wow!!!! First time ever watched it. Im an ex Westlaker from the 70s and im stunned. Westlake was so white when i attended and there wouldnt have been half a dozen polys in the whole boys school. This is good.
I was in the choir this year (I'm in the middle of the front row) and I still watch this performance every now and then and feel an enormous sense of pride and love for this song. This was probably the best moment for me of the four years that I was in the choir. We all went off stage and cried, especially since for me and many of my friends it was our last year - to know that it has been this well recieved by the Samoan community makes me even more proud and glad to have been a part of it. I'm glad we did you proud. Faʻafetai x
Y’all make me want to cry 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾this means so much to the culture to the people ..The way you guys brought this performance to a perfection with pride n heart I salute to you all you are Samoa ! My jaw dropped and you made the hair on the back of my neck raise up I damn near want to cry smh..The cold part about it it’s 2022 and I’m just now seeing this I’m ashamed but yet proud Sending y’all love from US California Bay Area SF “415 iLLaGE CamP”
I'm just surprised that white, India, Asia, Polynesian all sing and dance to old Samoan songs. All you young men and women should be very proud of yourselfs. You all did an amazing job. Thank you From N Cal.
And this is why i love nz ! They say australia america canada and uk have diverse countries nahhh man NEW ZEALAND takes diversity to the next level .. we learn the native maori language and also asian, european and polynesian languages in schools. we have the biggest polynesians festival in the world and when you go to nz you will notice that every culture has their own communities and they are not small ones they are big communities, indians , chinese , samoans and other polynesian countries. I love beautiful nz! Its the best place to grow up!
I TOTALLY AGREED. THIS WAS AN AWESOME BEAUTIFUL COURAGEOUS PERFORMANCE I LOVE IT. ESPECIALLY KIDS ARE PROBOUNCING THE WORDS WELL. I COULD SEE THEM WHEN THEY ARE SINGING. THANK YOU FOR A JOB WELL DONE FROM SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA (USA)
I come from a multicultural city but the Samoan population is very small. I wish I had been exposed earlier in life, but am thankful for modern technology and media that I found expressions of their culture at all. This is such a lovely composition of the sounds. I’m late to it, but fabulous! 🎉❤
I cried watching this 😮, right onto the Samoan Sister- Lau afioga-faletua ✊ for teaching carrying out by living our culture/ancestors across the waters. 👏 👏 👏
You can barely see Samoa on a map and yet our culture reaches the mouths of kids from different parts of the world. I know they’re from nz but still pretty humbling to see Asians and Palagis showing out and killing every word and move. 👏🏽 cheehooo Malo le taumafai gi tamaiti ❤️
That’s mad respect when another school of all Polys give you that confirmation of “yeah you guys did that” to a school of non Polys Malo, Malo lava thank you for showing our Samoan and other poly cultures love and respect in the form of song and dance. Soifua
Man, just came across this. Truly amazing, totally unexpected not because you were singing Samoan songs, but because they were some of my late parent’s favourites. Love love love. I hope you are all still singing wherever you are. Fa’afetai lava Westlake. Much respect.
Love this but also makes me sad for the indigenous here in Australia. Australia is so backwards when it comes to accepting Aboriginal culture. At least in New Zealand you can watch people of different races perform a song/dance from another culture with respect and pride. Would never see a school of white Aussie kids do an Aboriginal performance and show it the respect it deserves. They would all look around and feel embarrassed. Well done New Zealand.
allikohcysp I've seen kids do an Aboriginal version of Waltzing Matilda... and my old choir did 'Ngarra Burra Ferra' from the Sapphires, and a version of Bob Dylan's "Release Me" that had been translated into PItjantjara... I'm all for spreading more cultural understanding of Indigenous Australia, but it is important we go about it the right way. Permissions granted and that kind of thing. I agree, there could be more done cross-culturally, but I think, Australians seem less inclined to sing chorally than NZ, particularly Maori and Polynesian cultures, and Australia is the poorer for it. The number and quality of choirs in the NZ Big Sing are incredible. It doesn't explain all of what you are talking about, but I think it does account for a significant part. I'd also point out there is a great Gondwana choir version of an Aceh song in Indonesia floating around...
Lets be honest, aussie has been a racist country, they wouldn't allow Polynesians into their country in the fifties but nz allowed them, and now aust. have a lot to make up for, they gotta start accepting someday.
I've watched this vid so many times!!! It still brings tears to my eyes! So proud of NZ's diversity. And daang you would've thought this was an all Samoan church choir if you were just hearing it and not watching the vid!!!! So amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaziiiiiiinnnnngggg!!!!!!!!! :D
I keep watching this video 100 times,,and put tears in my eyes,seen these non Samoan blood performance,,great job,faafetai lava ,you guys rock my day and make me proud to be truly Samoan,,malo le tauivi malo le onosai
From samoa, we love you and your whole school choir,,, mad upzz 2 u guys aye, thanks alot 4representing my peace of culture in your high school......xoxoxxxx
It gives me a warm feeling of appreciation to see and hear other people sing and dance our songs and dances so well...and these students perform it so well it amazes me. Great job and thanks for sharing it!! Appreciate it tremendously.
O my gosh! Fantastic. I've watched it twice now and still have the same emotion. Elated with pride of how these boys and girls sang our Samoan songs so beautifully and much better than me. Congratulations to the music teacher and others involved. Fabulous NZ kids. Malo lava ma faafetai.
Love when people sing our songs with passion and dignity, truly amazing, shot Westlake love your singing, its been years but this always reminds me of my late parents, thank you.
2021 and still banging this!! So much pride and passion. These students owe it to themselves seriously. It’s refreshing watching this performed with such gratitude. I can tell you now that salute at the 3:54 mark(lua pati Mai le shot Westlake) probably from another school who were Samoans was a sign of respect. Westlake you Done the Samoan community proud 🥲
I was one of the students who was in this performance, and yes it was! They were a bunch of the Pasifika lads from Dilworth (another school that had an incredible boys’ choir!).
Awesome performance! Malo lava :) Gave me goosebumps and made me smile throughout the whole video! Love seeing you guys enjoying learning our beautiful Samoan language and dancing. Well Done!
I never get sick of this performance, so proud to see other cultures embrace ours and treat it with such respect. shot Westlake! proud Kiwi proud Samoan
Sung so beautifully, I watched this so many times and still loving it....so proud of you Westlake Boys and Girls High, makes me appreciate my own cultural hymns and songs. You are the BEST
I love to hear this group on a CD, I could play it over and over again in my car. What a beautiful blend of voices, I like this version better than any other, sounds so angelic. The group did a wonderful job with the pronounciations and the awesome voices to add The girls poise and grace took on those moves like they grew up with it. It was mind blowing to watch. And I love the young man who opened it with the Pati a, I thought he was a Samoan, so real. And the palagi young man at the end, now thats how you meant to do it.Thank you Westlake Girls and Boys, Faafetai lava, manaia le tapenaga. Ua malie mata e vaai. Le ole lea. The performance was absolutely flawless. Thank you for choosing to do SAMOAN medley and actions.
me too that palagi boy towards the end wow yes that's how you do it. they are all awesome. just touched my heart and got a bit teary 😭 but tears of joy 🏝️👍🇼🇸
Great performance Westlake. Gives me tears in my own eyes to see none Samoans kids perform and sing our songs and dance so well. Very joyful to watch and they sing so well. Amazing and truly appreciate.
I love how this has the incorporation of Chorale singing and the fusion of Samoan Songs. Excellent job! And I'll admit as a Samoan myself; the pronunciations were/are way better than I could ever muster! Hah!
Quite amazingly beautiful. What a broad, diverse culture you seem to have in New Zealand (and keeping it alive)! Well done, from your cousins in the UK!
Oh wow that's incredible wow I'm a Samoan n I'm so surprised and amazed of wat u people did wow beautiful voices much much better than we are juv it God is good and God bless u all
I've just found this amazing choir, how could they have managed to sing in Samoa ,I'm so amazed, Thanks to all of "Westlake, " for an exciting performance 😀 ❤️
Anyone STILL watching this in 2020? Seki a Westlake 🤙
Lol makes me so proud to be an ex westlake Swan 🥰🙌 music to maaaa ears👂❤️
Wow!!!!
First time ever watched it.
Im an ex Westlaker from the 70s and im stunned.
Westlake was so white when i attended and there wouldnt have been half a dozen polys in the whole boys school.
This is good.
13th January 2021 all the way from Mumbai, India
Im November 2021 im 4 Lockdown. Liebe Grüße aus Austria
2022 🥰
I was in the choir this year (I'm in the middle of the front row) and I still watch this performance every now and then and feel an enormous sense of pride and love for this song. This was probably the best moment for me of the four years that I was in the choir. We all went off stage and cried, especially since for me and many of my friends it was our last year - to know that it has been this well recieved by the Samoan community makes me even more proud and glad to have been a part of it. I'm glad we did you proud.
Faʻafetai x
Shot Sis - You all were straight FIRE ! made us proud BIGTIME !
I still get goosebumps listening to this
Well reading your comment has made me tear up now.
Y’all make me want to cry 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾this means so much to the culture to the people ..The way you guys brought this performance to a perfection with pride n heart I salute to you all you are Samoa ! My jaw dropped and you made the hair on the back of my neck raise up I damn near want to cry smh..The cold part about it it’s 2022 and I’m just now seeing this I’m ashamed but yet proud Sending y’all love from US California Bay Area SF “415 iLLaGE CamP”
Thank you for sharing - Malo lava
Still watching this. Brilliant. How I would have loved to have been in such a brilliant choir peformance,
This is why some NZ schools are at the top when it comes to Culture.
Big ups to these students for learning our cultural songs. These songs were sung back in the early 1900s. 685 proud 🇼🇸🇳🇿
I'm just surprised that white, India, Asia, Polynesian all sing and dance to old Samoan songs.
All you young men and women should be very proud of yourselfs. You all did an amazing job.
Thank you
From N Cal.
Still crying in 2024 🥹🫶🏾
And this is why i love nz ! They say australia america canada and uk have diverse countries nahhh man NEW ZEALAND takes diversity to the next level .. we learn the native maori language and also asian, european and polynesian languages in schools. we have the biggest polynesians festival in the world and when you go to nz you will notice that every culture has their own communities and they are not small ones they are big communities, indians , chinese , samoans and other polynesian countries. I love beautiful nz! Its the best place to grow up!
I bet you the Bay Area in Cali has more Polys than NZ.
Boss Hog 🤣outta here
I TOTALLY AGREED. THIS WAS AN AWESOME BEAUTIFUL COURAGEOUS PERFORMANCE I LOVE IT. ESPECIALLY KIDS ARE PROBOUNCING THE WORDS WELL. I COULD SEE THEM WHEN THEY ARE SINGING. THANK YOU FOR A JOB WELL DONE FROM SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA (USA)
@@HawaiianStyle808 bet you not. Auckland alone has the biggest Poly community in the world on record.
On thanks mate cheers
I come from a multicultural city but the Samoan population is very small. I wish I had been exposed earlier in life, but am thankful for modern technology and media that I found expressions of their culture at all. This is such a lovely composition of the sounds. I’m late to it, but fabulous! 🎉❤
I cried watching this 😮, right onto the Samoan Sister- Lau afioga-faletua ✊ for teaching carrying out by living our culture/ancestors across the waters. 👏 👏 👏
NZ is so ahead of the rest of the world in accepting and incorporating culture into their schools.
I can't tell you how many times I've watched this. Just beautiful.
My husband is Samoan and I am a Kiwi and I love the Samoan music. Thankyou Boys
o_O.. Palagis and Asians are singing the words and understands the clapping. They get the harmony and the movement. Admirable.
You can barely see Samoa on a map and yet our culture reaches the mouths of kids from different parts of the world. I know they’re from nz but still pretty humbling to see Asians and Palagis showing out and killing every word and move. 👏🏽
cheehooo Malo le taumafai gi tamaiti ❤️
Cuz New Zealand likes to express all there diverse cultures.
5 years later and this is still one of my fav choir performances. So good
That’s mad respect when another school of all Polys give you that confirmation of “yeah you guys did that” to a school of non Polys Malo, Malo lava thank you for showing our Samoan and other poly cultures love and respect in the form of song and dance. Soifua
Its 2024 rn and I'll never get over these guys 🔥🥹
Still watching in 2020, Westlake!!!
Enjoyable and proud .... well done 👏 ✔️ 👍
The girls were so graceful I couldn’t stop smiling 😁 well done boys straight posture and head held high great work all Malo lava
I watched this 20 times and still loving it ...nonsomoans good job guys perfect performance ..thumbs up
Sole non Samoan
Only just found this..from the UK...beautiful!! Thank you very much.
It makes me so happy to see others participate in Polynesian culture. I couldn't stop my eyes from welling up.
🇼🇸 Samoa the best in the Pacific,their culture especially the Legends is so unbelievable. ❤️ 🇼🇸
Man, just came across this. Truly amazing, totally unexpected not because you were singing Samoan songs, but because they were some of my late parent’s favourites. Love love love. I hope you are all still singing wherever you are. Fa’afetai lava Westlake. Much respect.
RIP FOREVER IETI LEU'U
you did that uce
Love this but also makes me sad for the indigenous here in Australia. Australia is so backwards when it comes to accepting Aboriginal culture. At least in New Zealand you can watch people of different races perform a song/dance from another culture with respect and pride.
Would never see a school of white Aussie kids do an Aboriginal performance and show it the respect it deserves. They would all look around and feel embarrassed.
Well done New Zealand.
allikohcysp I've seen kids do an Aboriginal version of Waltzing Matilda... and my old choir did 'Ngarra Burra Ferra' from the Sapphires, and a version of Bob Dylan's "Release Me" that had been translated into PItjantjara... I'm all for spreading more cultural understanding of Indigenous Australia, but it is important we go about it the right way. Permissions granted and that kind of thing. I agree, there could be more done cross-culturally, but I think, Australians seem less inclined to sing chorally than NZ, particularly Maori and Polynesian cultures, and Australia is the poorer for it. The number and quality of choirs in the NZ Big Sing are incredible. It doesn't explain all of what you are talking about, but I think it does account for a significant part. I'd also point out there is a great Gondwana choir version of an Aceh song in Indonesia floating around...
Lets be honest, aussie has been a racist country, they wouldn't allow Polynesians into their country in the fifties but nz allowed them, and now aust. have a lot to make up for, they gotta start accepting someday.
its not actually Aboriginal performance its Samoan dances and songs
preach !!
This is samoan....
Just come across this today, fantastic. Listening in the UK.
Inspirational !! As an older Samoan I found this very moving... Thank you.
iM SAMOAN IM SO HAPPY WHEN OTHER CULTURE SING SAMOAN SONG I REALLY LOVE IT KEEP GOOD WORK
👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍
I've watched this vid so many times!!! It still brings tears to my eyes! So proud of NZ's diversity. And daang you would've thought this was an all Samoan church choir if you were just hearing it and not watching the vid!!!! So amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaziiiiiiinnnnngggg!!!!!!!!! :D
I keep watching this video 100 times,,and put tears in my eyes,seen these non Samoan blood performance,,great job,faafetai lava ,you guys rock my day and make me proud to be truly Samoan,,malo le tauivi malo le onosai
Who’s watching from 2023?🔥🔥🔥🔥ENDING GOT ME SCREAMING🔥💯
...and 2024!
Watching …. October 2024 🌹
Showed this to my family in Samoa. They were so happy to watch this. The songs that were performed are very good songs. Loved it all
The appreciation from the (I'm guessing poly) crowd at the @3:52 mark is what gets me. 👌Where credit is due, give it 🙏
💯
👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍 can't get enough really so (PROUD) being (USO) they did this
I cannot express how much I love the Islander's music. And the joy of those who have learned to express it from every culture. What a blessing.
From samoa, we love you and your whole school choir,,, mad upzz 2 u guys aye, thanks alot 4representing my peace of culture in your high school......xoxoxxxx
👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍
That ending was killer!!! Awesome!!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Right on job well done
Whenever I am feeling down, I watch this. The harmonies are perfect and it seems as if all is right in the world
You know what?! I actually love it. What I love is the real interest of correct pronunciation. Awesome stuff. SAMOA MO SAMOA 🇼🇸
Still love watching this! The singing and dancing is on point! Beautiful to listen to and watch. God bless this school and choir!
It gives me a warm feeling of appreciation to see and hear other people sing and dance our songs and dances so well...and these students perform it so well it amazes me. Great job and thanks for sharing it!! Appreciate it tremendously.
Yes stll watching it from Sandy Utah USA December 2022
I'm watching 28 may 2020 crying buckets so beautiful
O my gosh! Fantastic. I've watched it twice now and still have the same emotion. Elated with pride of how these boys and girls sang our Samoan songs so beautifully and much better than me. Congratulations to the music teacher and others involved. Fabulous NZ kids. Malo lava ma faafetai.
Love when people sing our songs with passion and dignity, truly amazing, shot Westlake love your singing, its been years but this always reminds me of my late parents, thank you.
molto bello vedere e sentir cantare con quanta gioia e orgoglio cantano e ballano
Omg amazing!! That last part where the voices blend together. The girls smashed it and the boys holding that note just mind blowing😱😍🔝
2021 and still banging this!! So much pride and passion. These students owe it to themselves seriously. It’s refreshing watching this performed with such gratitude. I can tell you now that salute at the 3:54 mark(lua pati Mai le shot Westlake) probably from another school who were Samoans was a sign of respect. Westlake you Done the Samoan community proud 🥲
I was one of the students who was in this performance, and yes it was! They were a bunch of the Pasifika lads from Dilworth (another school that had an incredible boys’ choir!).
Awesome, that Asian guy in the beginning got it down good, you sang it perfectly, love it God bless you lol😀
Thankyou everyone for the beautiful singing and dancing. 👍👍⚘⚘
Damn what talented kids, so proud of you all , 100 per cent knocked it out of the ball park !!
That kid near the end that calls Muaooo!!!! My uce right there!!
Absolutely Beautiful these amazing talent students so Proud of them ALL for preforming such Beautiful Pasifika songs of old
Awesome performance! Malo lava :) Gave me goosebumps and made me smile throughout the whole video! Love seeing you guys enjoying learning our beautiful Samoan language and dancing. Well Done!
I never get sick of this performance, so proud to see other cultures embrace ours and treat it with such respect. shot Westlake! proud Kiwi proud Samoan
❤ Thank you Jesus for answered prayers
This is what we love New Zealand so much .. and that's a true masterclass!
아름다움은 언어를, 피부를, 세대를 초월하네요~
Sung so beautifully, I watched this so many times and still loving it....so proud of you Westlake Boys and Girls High, makes me appreciate my own cultural hymns and songs. You are the BEST
I love to hear this group on a CD, I could play it over and over again in my car. What a beautiful blend of voices, I like this version better than any other, sounds so angelic. The group did a wonderful job with the pronounciations and the awesome voices to add The girls poise and grace took on those moves like they grew up with it. It was mind blowing to watch. And I love the young man who opened it with the Pati a, I thought he was a Samoan, so real. And the palagi young man at the end, now thats how you meant to do it.Thank you Westlake Girls and Boys, Faafetai lava, manaia le tapenaga. Ua malie mata e vaai. Le ole lea. The performance was absolutely flawless. Thank you for choosing to do SAMOAN medley and actions.
Me too!
me too that palagi boy towards the end wow yes that's how you do it. they are all awesome. just touched my heart and got a bit teary 😭 but tears of joy 🏝️👍🇼🇸
WOW...I mean WOW....that is INTERNATIONAL in it's BEST!....AWESOME...please MORE!!!
Great performance Westlake. Gives me tears in my own eyes to see none Samoans kids perform and sing our songs and dance so well. Very joyful to watch and they sing so well. Amazing and truly appreciate.
Enjoyed the performance and pronounciation of words. Well done Westlake Boys and Girls.
Goosebumps! This is bloody awesome. That respect and shout out from the audience at the end!
Love the exuberance, the joy, the music's harmony. Thank your, Singers!
You are the best of best and keep it up and keep on going 🙂🙂🙂🙂
Awsome well done its amazing lovely so beautifully perfectly performance Godbless Westlake college!!! Samoa loves yous dearly
just brilliant, watch it so many times yet always find it so amazingly new zealand's beautiful multicultural heritage at its best - thank you
Love love love!!! I grew up on all these songs. You guys did amazing!!!
This makes me tear up, im so proud of others recognizing our culture, that was beautiful.
Beautiful and proud of how they sing in my own language 👍
I love how this has the incorporation of Chorale singing and the fusion of Samoan Songs. Excellent job! And I'll admit as a Samoan myself; the pronunciations were/are way better than I could ever muster! Hah!
Quite amazingly beautiful. What a broad, diverse culture you seem to have in New Zealand (and keeping it alive)! Well done, from your cousins in the UK!
harmonies are on point! Well done and the Samoan pronunciations a job well done thanks Westlake boys/girls Amazing!!!
Nice..I'm glad our people gave yous a massive shout out at the end..Malo Westlake..
Damn that the alto on that last note 👌🏽 clean
I still can’t get over that palagi’s ma kagaka asia are singing this song 🤯🤯🤯😍😍😍
Oh wow that's incredible wow I'm a Samoan n I'm so surprised and amazed of wat u people did wow beautiful voices much much better than we are juv it God is good and God bless u all
Awwww so cute ❤️👏🏼👏🏼👌
Malo lava Wast Lake. Faafetai tele lava mo le pese! Cried like a baby this was just beautiful. Well done :)
Wow they ALL have very beautiful
voices
that was awesome guys! I love the harmonies!! love from the marshall islands
Never get sick of watching this - LOVE IT!
just watched this again.. argh goosebumps!!!
I've just found this amazing choir, how could they have managed to sing in Samoa ,I'm so amazed, Thanks to all of "Westlake, " for an exciting performance 😀 ❤️
Music unites us. Thank you for embracing our pacific culture with beauty, love and respect. That’s how it’s done! NZ STAND UP!
2024 ❤🤙
Omg dat performance jst described us as a nation, unity dats our future one love
A country incorporating cultural values like these into the education of youngsters is bound to do well.
The ending is outta of space. Good job gals n boyz
The Palagis and the Asians did the singing SO WELL I thought it was my churches women chior!
so proud to be from this country!
I absolutely love - Keep up the fantastic cultures guys you totally rock !!
Oh My Gawwwd....Thank you 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
Yall are AMAZING, LOVE IT! Malo lava le taumafai Westlake!!!
wowwwwww:) nice performance westlake!!!