Island Base

big ngā mihi to the team at Niu FM and Monica Ah-Young for always making our MCS tamariki feel so welcome and comfortable every-time they come to visit. The glow on their faces afterwards is worth a million bucks ⭐️❤️
Make sure to listen to their track on islandbasefm.com ! mv coming soon for their song “summer trip” ayyyy

Huge congratulations to the Māori-Pasifika choir for taking home the gold🥇the proof is right here that if you give us a chance, we can do great things 👏🏽 👏🏽

"No one can beat us at being us."

Congratulations to all the winners and Island Base mentors like Sam V who took home big wins! We are proud to give our rangatahi access to some of the best Maori & Pacific musicians in the game 🏝️

Multi-award winning musician Sam V, who rose to fame after uploading videos to YouTube at the age of nine, wins Pacific Soul/RnB artist for the fifth year running.

When we start our programmes our tamariki are always so camera shy and want nothing to do with the recording, photographs etc, fast forward a day or a couple hours and suddenly it’s photoshoot time 😭🤦🏽‍♀️

regardless we couldn’t be prouder of this group and the work they accomplished in the time they had⭐️

To listen to past tracks from our rangatahi and new arrivals (wink wink) head to 🔗 🔗 islandbasefm.com

Our legend on the deck Jason Eli showing our rangatahi some DJ skills 🙌🏾 Jason has been with us for aaaaages and is our resident mixing & mastering legend, with decades of experience in the UK and all over 🇬🇧 and we’re so lucky to have him!

some of our lyricists in action writing for our up & coming track! They were spitballing ideas and coming up with verses for the song, but one mutual theme remained.

The beauty of the islands 🏝️ the oceans 🌊 the sky 🌌 and coral reefs 🪸 super catchy if you ask me😛

tune coming 🔜

Some of our rangatahi going through chords + writing lyrics for our song! The islands were a big inspo for this track as over 90% of our Mahurangi rangatahi are from Kiribati 🏝️ which is huge for us as most of our rangatahi that we see weekly are Maori, Samoan and Tongan 🎉

having such a pronounced Kiribas group has been so cool, learning some of the lingo and watching our rangatahi incorporate their language into past tracks (like summer vacay by vibez) has been absolutely beautiful☝🏽☝🏽

We’re so excited to share this track with everyone ⭐️

🙌🏾Check out Lehali, one of our mentees and her interview with Coconet TV! We had the privilege of having her perform at our last TAKE IT TO THE STREETS and we couldn’t be prouder to see how much she’s grown as an artist 🎧 🎤 🌴

See Lehali in Take it to The Streets 👉🏽⭐️ https://youtu.be/bCPTsLiRbJc?si=LMdeAUFYvGJclBB-

Rising Ni Van Artist Lehali gives us a glimpse into her world from Advocating, Music and over coming her deepest fears.

Get to know the multi-talented singer here:
https://www.thecoconet.tv/coco-tv/inspiring-islanders/from-vanuatu-to-the-world-meet-lehali-young/