Kia orana!

I encourage other Cook Islanders to listen to these songs and reconnect. Revive them. Sing them with your mamas and papas. Let them spark memories and stories. These songs are more than music, they’re windows into the lives of our people.

This work also enables Viking to reissue the music on digital streaming platforms such as Spotify and YouTube. Thus far, around 200 Viking albums have been made available again through this process, including 105 albums of Pacific music.

Pacific GLAM sector are naturally gifted and masters at enabling their communities. We don’t need written policies or extensive research to do this work because we are the community.