NASI Dredre Ga, the latest iTaukei song that has taken radio stations by storm, sung by students as young as pre-schoolers and played in nightclubs and buses, was written for a special purpose.
Composer Apolosi Baroi said the song should set a platform for other writers to compose inspirational songs that will encourage people to make a difference.
The song, composed in 2011, was designed to give the community an insight of what nurses go through in a day at work and how their smiles could make a difference in a patient’s life.
Mr Baroi, a retired teacher, was inspired by his late aunt, the late Adi Asena Dirabe Komainasava of Naseakula Village.
“I had written the song in memory of an aunt of mine who was a nurse and I used to stay with her in Ba while attending Ba Methodist High School in 1977,” he said.
“She had passed away in 2009 and nearing my retiring age in 2011, I thought of all those who had contributed to what I have become so I thought of writing this song about her and also to inspire nurses in Fiji and abroad.
“I reckon that nurses have a fulfilling responsibility and part of that would be played by their very nature, and if only they would smile a lot, most of the sickness a patient carried would be taken away when they see a nurse do so.”
