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)

Moizna - Keep On Moving
Phil Fuemana, 1994
Photo credit: Photo by Greg Semu
Houseparty - Pauly Fuemana, Christina Fuemana, Matty J Ruys, Phil Fuemana
Photo credit: Matty Ruys Collection
Houseparty - Matty J Ruys and Phil Fuemana
Photo credit: Matty Ruys Collection
Phil Fuemana mural by Askew at the Otara Music Arts Centre
Photo credit: Matty Ruys Collection
UPR at the NZ Music Awards, 1995 - Sam Feo II and Phil Fuemana
Houseparty
UPR - One Step Ahead
Phillip Fuemana, at the 1995 NZ Music Awards
The Urban Pacifika family on the cover of New Zealand Musician, February/March 1998
Phil Fuemana, Matty J Ruys
Photo credit: Matty Ruys Collection
Fuemana - Rocket Love
Pauly and Phil Fuemana at Cause Celebre in Auckland's High Street after the 1994 APRA Silver Scrolls
Fuemana - Seasons
Closer - Christine and Phil Fuemana and Matty J (1994)
Phil Fuemana
Photo credit: Photo by Gareth Shute
House Party - Dangerous Love
NZ Musician June 1994
Photo credit: Photo by Greg Semu
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
Christina and Phillip Fuemana
Fuemana – New Urban Polynesian (Deepgrooves, 1994 – reissued on vinyl by Gazebo in 2024)

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