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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1962Vol. XXXII, No. 6

Blind Tongan Boy

p. 63 · Read in the full issue

Is “Sensational”

there, among PIM readers, distributor of bright, new, dal items for radio pro nmes? If so, he might find it th while to make an inquiry ut a blind boy who lives in ga. is name is Sione Aleki, and is aged 16, and he has been ost blind since birth. He has extraordinarily clear singing •e, and a sense of music close genius. He has been tutored the Catholic Brothers on a Island. ecently, during ceremonies Nukualofa, he was in luced in a programme of igan music and songs. His ing of a Tongan version of d River Valley”, in which he ympanied himself on a guitar, sensational.

'he Tongan Broadcasting ion made a record of the i and those experts who have rd it declare that the song, the singer, are worthy of a :h wider audience.