6-year-old records first single

By ENAMYRA ANI,
UPNG Journalism student
SOME children are blessed with gifts and talents like the ones you see in movies or read about in books.
Such a talented six-year-old boy is ready to face the challenges that are coming his way as he ventures into the world of music.
And his talent and energy are quite overwhelming for his parents.
Dwayne Dumatoby from Rabaul and Bougainville was born on June 4, 2013 to dad, Kasy and mum Brenda is now passionate about music.
Young Dumatoby has not yet started his education but is interested in music.
While growing up he started watching and listening to music clips by musicians like Henry Kuskus, Charles Kivonvon and Kanai Pineri and most importantly, his uncle, Patti Potts Doi featuring his dad Kasy.
Fortunately for Dwayne, dad is also an artist who has been singing backups for Patti Potts and that’s how he began to love music and to sing.

“ Kids these days love music so once they listen to those kinds of songs it disturbs their way of thinking and they won’t listen to their parents and their performance in school will be poor.”

“He used to watch us perform and record, he watched our old music clips and the other music clips,” dad Kasy says.
“Then one day he told me he wanted to sing, to be like me and his uncle Patti Potts. Two weeks ago he made his single which it will be released in two weeks’ time. The title of the song is Mummy.”
Kasy says that nowadays many children are influenced by the type of songs about girls which disturb them from studying.
“Why I want to bring him out is because throughout PNG these new artists always sing songs about girls, one after another other.
“Kids these days love music so once they listen to those kinds of songs it disturbs their way of thinking and they won’t listen to their parents and their performance in school will be poor.”

He says he wants Dwayne to sing about real life rather than of girls. He also challenged musicians to quit singing about girls bit about real life.
“There are many songs the artistes should sing about like their villages, provinces, and the real life situations, what is happening around them and also about the future. Not songs about Rihanna, Sarah, Mary or whoever, it’s really annoying,” Kasy said.
“Singing girl songs over and over is annoying. The artistes think they are just songs but they are also spoiling marriages. Try to sing something different.”