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Viliame Odrovakavula
13 May, 2021, 8:00 pm
From left: Joji Toge, Jone Rusa and another band member at Namada Village in Nadroga. Picture: ATU RASEA
Jone Rusa still remembers the nights when his father, Ulaiasi Vasuitaukei, would get home from work with a couple of bags of yaqona and ask for a mix.
Rusa said he and his brother, Joji Toge, would leave whatever they were doing and get the utensils ready.
They knew the night would be a combination of music and history lessons.
“That was how my brother and I learnt how to play the guitar and sing,” Rusa said.
“It was so beautiful to share a basin of grog with our father and sing all the old timers and Cripple Serenaders songs.”
Viliame Odrovakavula
Ramesh Hargovind at his studio at Procera Music. Picture: SUPPLIED
For more than 40 years, Ramesh Hargovind has been a hitmaker. He has recorded and produced more than 47,000 songs by countless artists.
The Toorak resident has travelled the length and breadth of Fiji and faithfully captured English, iTaukei and Hindi music created by locals.
And in the process he helped transform ordinary men and women into music superstars. An amazing achievement for someone who does not play an instrument and who can’t carry a tune.
What Hargovind does have is an ear that knows something good when he hears it. His uncanny ability has transformed relatively unknowns into household names.