musical gala
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — Fa'anana Jerome Grey, the man who famously penned the song, 'We Are Samoa' is being celebrated this weekend.
Grey was travelling through Alaska in the late 1970s. In that landscape of snow and ice, he became deeply homesick for the tropical islands of his birth. So, he wrote...

![To celebrate his 75th birthday his children are hosting a musical gala in Costa Mesa, California. [photo: Courtesy Grey family via RNZ Pacific] Grey family portrait](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/grey_family_web.jpg?itok=eHdw8hlR)