The 6-foot-5, 290-pound Ta'u Pupu'a played football and studied music at Weber State University, the Deseret News reported.
"I heard him singing in one of the practice rooms at Weber. I was walking down the hall and heard him sing and I thought, 'My, what a wonderful voice' and (I) knocked on the door," said Evelyn Harris, Pupu'a's college voice teacher. "We became acquainted and he became my student."
Pupu'a was known for playing football, Harris remembered, "but he also loved to sing."
