Lifetime Achievement Award

Lifetime Achievement Award for Hawaiian-based Fijian music legend

George Veikoso - known professionally as ‘Fiji’ - has been a part of the music scene for more than four decades and his contribution to Pacific music will be celebrated virtually.

“Fiji’ has won a number of awards over the years including the Hawai'i Academy of Record Arts' Award for Male Vocalist of the Year and the first Best Pacific International Artist Award at the 2014 Pacific Music Awards.

All winners will be acknowledged in an online awards ceremony on December 11th, which will be screened online.

 

Photo file  Caption: George "Fiji Veikoso

Tonga's Queen Sālote to be recognised at Pacific Music Awards

The award will be posthumously presented at the 15th awards ceremony on Thursday.

Queen Sālote ascended to the throne in 1918 when she was just 18 and reigned for almost 48 years until her death in 1965.

She also composed over 100 songs, lullabies, laments and dances.

The Pacific Music Awards Trust said it acknowledges Queen Sālote's huge contribution to the preservation and creative use of the Tongan language and recognises her as a celebrated writer of poetry and song.

The Trust said her compositions continue to inspire a new generation today.