YUMIFM’s Featured Artist for September, Kalu T (Thomas Pumi) & Jay Tee Kola (Jonathan Kola) including their hardworking team recently graced PNGFM’s studios speaking about their latest song on 93 FM’s airwaves, Amox Akoma Georgina. The track which currently sits at number 12 on Yumi FM’s Top 20 countdown, could be summed up as a song about homesickness as explained by the artists. “This woman we are singing about, Georgina, misses her home greatly and we are telling a story about her going back to her people to spend the holidays among her people.” “She is someone who married a man from Sepik, and she is travelling back to her home in the Southern Highlands where there’s this beautiful body of water called ‘Wara Polu’.” The song not only draws inspiration from SHP’s natural environment but also explores complex human emotions and hints at the difficulties behind intercultural marriages within PNG. The artists explained that customarily, when a woman gets married, she goes to be with her man and his people to be his support and his strength, and the song Amox Akoma Georgina, is somewhat of a remedy for this woman’s sadness. When asked about what advice the talented duo would give to any youngsters who wish to pursue music, Kalu T encouraged local artists to draw inspiration from their roots. “Any upcoming or aspiring artists should learn their language and write songs using their language – they must find their unique sound.” He used an example from the people of Africa who created their own unique sound using their traditional beats. “Africans blessed the world with their traditional sound and PNG can do the same with our multitude of languages.”