Article 59G56 'This song is the struggle': Vanuatu's treehouse troubadour on love, loss and language

'This song is the struggle': Vanuatu's treehouse troubadour on love, loss and language

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Dan McGarry in Port Vila
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Singer-songwriter Tio Massing writes songs from a sprawling banyan tree, and says I have to do something for this earth, and the next generation'

Vanuatu singer-songwriter Tio Bang Massing writes from a place that few still remember.

He tries to live there too, with an almost Buddha-like simplicity, in a makeshift home tucked among the roots of a sprawling banyan tree.

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