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Thursday, November 23, 2006

DICKSON 'BAE'RA' SINGS ON

Source: Solomon Star @ www.solomonstarnews.com
23 November, 2006 - 11:03am.

Toktaem with Moffat Mamu.
Moffat Mamu of the Solomon Star office met up with one of our local country artists in the 80's and 90's. Dickson 'Bae'ra' Maetoea is from Dukwasivillage, in the Aoki/Langalanga Constitutency.

SINGING is a talent that many of us, Solomon Islanders, are blessed with despite our age and background.Some take their musical talent for granted while others went on to make an income out of it. One person who has gone out to expose his talent in the local music industry is none other than 50-year-old Dickson Matoea, a local string band singer. I was in Dukwasi Village, Central Kwara’ae, on Monday with a RAMSI Outreach team that was visiting four villages in the region including Dukwasi when I met Dickson. To those who don’t really know who I’m talking about, I bet you will by his popular song “Iu Se Mami Wanem Na Bae’era”. Dickson, who now resides in his home village of Dukwasi, was among villagers listening to the RAMSI team who visited the village to up-date villagers on the progress of the mission in Solomon Islands. I was asking some folks about their views on RAMSI when I was introduced to Dickson. Dickson is a well-known local singing artist in the 1980s. During those days his song “Iu Se Mami Wanem Na Bae’era” was always hitting the airwaves and even today - though it is seldomly played - it still puts a smile on a listener’s face. I too remember that during my primary school days whenever I heard this song on the radio I would put up the volume just to hear the words of the song. So on Monday when I met him the first thing I asked him about was how he came to compose such a song. He told me that the song was in fact based on a true story. “There is this girl from home who left the country for overseas and spent a month in Nauru. When she came back she wore high heel shoes with red lipstick and at the village when her mother mentioned the word ‘bae’era’ which means slippery cabbage in Kwara’ae language to her. “The girl in confusion asked her mother, ‘what is bae’era?’ So it was from this story that I compose the song,” Dickson told Toktaem.

He said the song was composed in 1982 and as soon as it was released it became a hit on the local radio. “I guess it was a hit for the local people because the song actually talks about something that is true and that has happened.“Although it is funny, but it tells a message,” Dickson said. The message, according to Dickson, is for locals not to forget their origins.Dickson’s love of music started at a very young age. “I really love singing and it has become part of my life, I can’t live without it. Today though I am now settling in the village I still sings or hums to myself, in the jungle, the gardens - everywhere. “I guess it is a passion that one cannot leave without,” the father of six said.

He told me that he still got his instruments and although some of them are old he would look at them and rekindle his younger days when he used to sing with friends.Honiara has been home for Dickson for 25 years, but he fled for the village with his family during the tension. “I cannot live with my family in Honiara during the ethnic tension because day in and day out you will hear guns fired scaring women and children.“There was so much fear in Honiara then so in 2001 my family and I evacuated back to Malaita.” He stated that during then Malaita too was affected.“ I could not go to the gardens in Malaita during the tension days because of fear.” But according to Dickson that was home. With these experiences, when the RAMSI Outreach Team visited Dukwasi, Dickson was among many who have expressed the need for RAMSI to remain in Solomon Islands.“ I want RAMSI to stay on in the country. There is still much work to be done in the country in reconstruction work and rehabilitation work mostly to the economic and social wounds that have been caused by the tension.” He said people are still affected by the tension today including the current generation therefore, so much is needed to be done.“

RAMSI’s arrival is freedom at last for us the locals because guns were collected and people were able to go on their normal activities.“ Without them the freedom we experience today will not exist, so whatever allegations there are against this mission I believe those can be resolved easily and should not be the engine to remove the force.“ We are happy with RAMSI and we look forward to seeing it uncover the many corrupt activities happening in the country over the years to return Solomon Islands to where it was before - the happy isles,” Dickson said. As I thanked him for the interview, Dickson quickly sang a few words from his famous song, as a way of saying, “you are welcome”.

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