So I thought, ‘If I joined the choir, I’d get new clothes.’” My brother got into choir, and I figured my parents would buy him clothes for the choir. “Growing up the youngest, I always got the hand-me-downs from everybody else,” Pupu’a explained.
By the time he was a teenager, Pupu’a had gotten pretty sick of wearing his older siblings’ duds. The youngest of nine children, Pupu’a grew up in humble circumstances where his family couldn’t always afford new clothes. The story most news outlets like to tell about Ta’u Pupu’a is that he was a professional football player who went on to become an opera singer.īut the tale we prefer is the other one - the one about an impoverished child who’d been around music throughout his childhood but didn’t give it much thought until he realized it might be a way to finally get some respectable clothes.
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