---
name: "Opetaia Foaʻi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/opetaia-foai"
fi1m_id: "opetaia-foai"
imdb_id: "nm7526806"
tmdb_id: 1716551
wikidata_id: "Q11885684"
roles: ["Songs"]
born: "1 January 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 62
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-23T14:16:14.476469+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Opetaia Foaʻi

## Identity

Opetaia Foaʻi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/opetaia-foai
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** opetaia-foai
- **IMDb ID:** nm7526806
- **TMDB ID:** 1716551
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11885684
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opetaia_Foa%CA%BBi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11885684, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7526806/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1716551

Songs. Born 1 January 1956 in Tuamasaga, Samoa.

## Details

- **Work:** Songs
- **Born:** 1 January 1956, Tuamasaga, Samoa
- **Active:** 2016–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 52 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 62 to 62 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Adventure 3, Comedy 3, Family 3, Animation 2, Fantasy 2
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,058m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opetaia_Foa%CA%BBi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11885684, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7526806/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1716551

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Moana 2*](https://film.one/film/moana-2.md) (55)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Opetaia Foaʻi is a Tokelauan-Tuvaluan composer, musician and singer born in Samoa in 1956. He grew up in New Zealand and lives in Australia. He is the founder and frontman of the Polynesian band Te Vaka, which he formed in the mid-1990s, and has released several albums of original music drawing on Pacific traditions.

Foaʻi contributed songs and Pacific choral vocals to the Disney film *Moana* (2016), working alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda and Mark Mancina, and returned for *Moana 2* (2024) with Mancina and others. Te Vaka performers feature on the soundtracks of both films. He has received awards including the Senior Pacific Artist Award in 2005 and recognition for his songwriting.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, opetaiafoai.com, billboard.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Moana* (2026), Fi1m 50, Songs — [page](https://film.one/film/moana-2026.md)
- *Moana 2* (2024), Fi1m 55, Songs, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/moana-2.md)
- *Moana* (2016), Fi1m 82, Songs — [page](https://film.one/film/moana.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Moana* (2026), as Songs — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/moana-2026.md)
- *Moana 2* (2024), as Songs · Original Music Composer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/moana-2.md)
- *Moana* (2016), as Songs — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/moana.md)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Senior Pacific Artist Award 2005: Senior Pacific Artist Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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