Coco Talanoa — Entertainment / Page 12

Happy Fijian Language Week! Here are some of our famour TikToks for our Fijian community: 

Fijian Comedy

Fijian Kava 

Fijian Family Vibes

Fijian Appreciation 

Fijian Dancing

Fijians Abroad

Just over a week ago Jennifer Lopez took the stage at the Global Citizen Festival in New York performing a number of her hits and Rihanna dropped her highly anticipated Savage X Fenty Volume 3 fashion show which premiered on Amazon Prime Video.

Vastly different shows but one thing they do have in common - Samoan choreographers! 

20 year old Sienna Lalau choreographed Jennifer Lopez' set.  Born and raised in Hawai'i before moving to Los Angeles when she was 16, she's worked with Ciara and then J-Lo touring as a dancer with her previously but it wasn't until she collaborated with K-Pop group BTS that her career sky rocketed.

Check out some of her behind the scenes choreography routines for the Global Citizen Show ("If you have my love" choreography by Sienna in the video above) and then J-Lo performing it live in her show in the videos below.…more

You may have heard of the trending “Neon Moon Remix” and seen the accompanying dance but did you know it was started by two Samoans?

Manumalo Moe is the Samoan TikToker who started the now viral #WhenTheSunGoesDown trend by choreographing a dance to go with DJ Noiz' Neon Moon catchy remix. The content creator posted the original dance in August and it now has over 700K people replicating the dance. All together the dance trend is racking up around 50 million likes through other people using the sound and choreography. 

The sound Manumalo used and is now being heard worldwide is a remix to Brooks & Dunn's 'Neon Moon' by Samoan producer DJ Noiz.  The TikTok trend even caught the attention of the country band, where they’ve posted a TikTok dancing to the remix while replicating Manumalo’s dance. DJ Noiz has released the remix on Youtube and has also reached out to Brooks & Dunn for the clearance to release his remix on other streaming platforms.…more

Watch the trailer (above and below) to the highly anticipated prequel film to cult classic series "The Sopranos" which is out this Friday in the US and stars young Tongan actor Samson Moeakiola.  

"The Many Saints of Newark" has been described as a prequel to 'The Sopranos' set against the Newark race riots and focuses on charming, sociopath mobster Dickie Moltisanti. (The father of Christopher, Tony’s right-hand man in the original Sopranos series).

Samson Moeakiola plays a young Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, a New Jersey mafia lieutenant who works for Dickie Moltisanti.  Vincent Pastore played Pussy in the original Sopranos series where he worked for Tony.

Samson shared in a Rolling Stone interview that he was able to spend time with the OG "Big Pussy" Vincent Pastore and called him a mentor.  

Pastore would record all of the young Pussy’s dialogue for him to listen to before each filming day. “Everybody else around me already had big resumes, and this was my first job,” he says.…more

Congratulations to Samoan actor KJ Apa and his partner, French model Clara Berry who welcomed a baby boy into the world last week.

Clara announced the news on her instagram this morning, also sharing the name of their baby - Sasha Vai Keneti Apa.

KJ also released his new album "Clocks" over the weekend.

KJ says of the album in an instagram post "CLOCKS. This music represents a piece of myself - my past, my future and my present ... 

Thank you to my mother @tessaapa for always helping & inspiring me to write. @jamiekuse for mastering, @jeanseledoujet for your magic and @clara.berry for taking my love for you to another dimension this week"

It's his 2nd album - he released his own instrumental rock album called "The Third Room" when he was only 14 years old.

Clocks is out now on all streaming platforms and you can check it out on Spotify below.…more

Jason Momoa gives us a sneak peak at getting ready and training to become Duncan Idaho in the upcoming blockbuster movie "DUNE" 

Our TikTok round-up this week is dedicated to #TongaTok in honor of Tongan Language Week!

Here we have our fave content this week from Tongan tiktok accounts that fall in to the catergories of Dancing, Adornments, Humour, Traditions and Singing...

Tongan Dancing

Tongan Adornments

Tongan Humour

Tongan Traditions

Tongan Singing

Recently Canadian born rapper Drake released his sixth studio album "Certified Lover Boy" and amongst the list of producers on the album, is a young 15 year old Samoan producer - Jarom Su'a.…more

Lealani Siaosi’s portrayal of a young Misatauveve Dr. Melani Anae had audiences captivated right from the first scene on the trending television series The Panthers. Depicting diverse emotions of strength, resistance, grief, and empathy, Lealani proved that her newness to the acting world had no limits on her range. From beginning to end, this rising star was exceptional and will definitely be on our list of ‘ones to watch’.

THE PANTHERS is one of only four shows in the world to be accepted into the festival as part of the TIFF Primetime Programme, where critically acclaimed shows such as Black Mirror and Transparent have premiered in previous years. Inspired by the Black Panther movement in the USA, Will (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), Melani (Lealani Siaosi) and a group of young Polynesians form The Polynesian Panthers, to fight the system and become the history making Revolutionaries that their community so desperately needed them to be.…more

Here's a roundup of Island TikTok from last week! We got comedy, viral trends, squad goals and everything in between. Check it out!

Comedy TikTok

Dance TikTok

Squad TikTok

Family TikTok

Cultural TikTok

Duet TikTok

Mukbang TikTok

Vlog TikTok

Music TikTok

Fashion & Style TikTok