Ian Chute
Michelle Rounds and William Hatch during one of their performances. Picture: MICHELLE ROUNDS/SUPPLIED
LAST week we featured the first part of a talanoa with music diva Michelle Rounds.
Today, we delve deeper into the music scene in Suva in the 1990s and what life was like for artists back then.
At a time when Fiji most needed support for live music and the musicians who relied on it for a living, the live music scene was dying a long, slow and agonising death.
Musicians who witnessed the unfortunate trend at the time said there were a number of contributing factors to the decline.