Phil Fuemana


“We saw music as one way of getting out of Otara. The music is about survival and creating a future where my family and their kids can be comfortable.”

Phil Fuemana continues, “It’s not Flying Nun's fault that there is so much white music around, we’re to blame for it. We should have our own label – Flying Coconuts or something – we’d all be bloody rich by now.” (Stamp, 1994)

Phil Fuemana
Photo credit: Photo by Gareth Shute
Fuemana – New Urban Polynesian (Deepgrooves, 1994 – reissued on vinyl by Gazebo in 2024)
The Urban Pacifika family on the cover of New Zealand Musician, February/March 1998
Fuemana - Rocket Love
UPR - One Step Ahead
Pauly and Phil Fuemana at Cause Celebre in Auckland's High Street after the 1994 APRA Silver Scrolls
Otara Phil Harmonic - Drummer Boy (1994)
Phillip Fuemana, at the 1995 NZ Music Awards
Closer - Christine and Phil Fuemana and Matty J (1994)
NZ Musician June 1994
Photo credit: Photo by Greg Semu
AKA Brown - Something I Need (1999) produced by Phil Fuemana, co-produced by John Chong-Nee.
Johnny Sagala - Main Point ft. Phil Fuemana
Phil Fuemana and the Urban Pacifika showcase
Fuemana - Christina Fuemana, Phil Fuemana, Pauly Fuemana, 1993
Phil Fuemana with some Urban Pacifika artists on the cover of Real Groove magazine, June 1999
Photo credit: Photo by Gary Brandon
Phil Fuemana, Matty J Ruys
Photo credit: Matty Ruys Collection
Moizna's Isabelle and Allisha Siosiua flank Phil Fuemana at Urban Pacifika’s launch of the Pioneers of a Pacifikan Frontier CD, Moata Samoa Fale, Auckland, 22 June 1999
Photo credit: Peter Hardie/Real Groove archive
Moizna - Keep On Moving
Fuemana - Seasons
Phil Fuemana, 1994
Photo credit: Photo by Greg Semu
Tribute to Phil Fuemana
Houseparty - Dangerous Love music video (1991)
Houseparty
Phil Fuemana mural by Askew at the Otara Music Arts Centre
Photo credit: Matty Ruys Collection
Houseparty - Pauly Fuemana, Christina Fuemana, Matty J Ruys, Phil Fuemana
Photo credit: Matty Ruys Collection
UPR at the NZ Music Awards, 1995 - Sam Feo II and Phil Fuemana
Christina and Phillip Fuemana
Houseparty - Matty J Ruys and Phil Fuemana
Photo credit: Matty Ruys Collection

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