24-10-2020 23:00 via theguardian.com

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

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. Related: The Vanuatu island in the eye of the stormRelated: Calls for a Covid 'kava bubble' as supply from Pacific to
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