Popular Fiji music group, VT1s who come under the music Label, VTBOB Music, will now have three of its artists; Billy T, Ratu and Liz Vamarasi perform live come this Saturday 6th July, 2024 (tomorrow) at the Lamana Gold Club, Port Moresby. VT1s will be headlining Kick Entertainment's event called Chiller CocoBeats who will showcase Fiji’s homegrown music and talents in Port Moresby for the first time. Manager of VT1s, Tikiko Ratu Korocowiri also known as Tix, said this is the group’s first time coming into the country and to Port Moresby. Papua New Guinea is also the first country in which VT1s is now starting its tour especially in the Pacific region. This he says in the hope to grow the Melanesian culture with its neighbors and to give a great opportunity in sharing the Melanesian music and culture as well as a chance to all the artists to cut through the world of music. “I am passionate about Melanesian arts and music great opportunity and reach out to our PNG family.” “VT1s is a Fijian music collective we had to approach the marketing of Fijian music differently to give our artists a chance to cut through in the world of music which is a very congested environment.” “We have so many artists all over Fiji, so we try to figure out a way to in which our artists could be perceived differently so that our music could travel further.” “As a collective, we collect all our music under one umbrella and with that bring the Fiji homegrown music to Papua New Guinea.” Music artist, Ratu Elijah Naitini also known as Ratu, also shared his experience as a musician that joined VT1s based on his experience and talent along with other fellow music artist such as Billy T and how each of their own sounds developed as they progressed whilst being under the VT1s umbrella. “As musicians, we came together as a group of friends trying to make music in our own unique style and the outcome was amazing; this was an amazing opportunity for bringing out Melanesian music.” “As a collective as Melanesians, we have so much to offer and share the experience with everybody.” In terms of different sounds, each of the artists also shared their own type of genres in which they have started off with and how they have progressed overtime as talented artists including their famous afro music and developing them into a greater sound for fans to love. “We wanted to do afro music since we see a lot of our people back at home are into afro music and so we decided to do that since that was the initial idea and then from there, grew and developed into our own sounds as we joined VT1s.” With the aim of strengthening Melanesian culture, these very artists aim at promoting their language and culture through singing which saw how this can be of an impact especially to the younger generation. Ratu stated that with much needed developments going on in the country, culture is slowly fading and therefore he saw a big responsibility as artists to protect their culture as they represent the country through music. Meanwhile, this upcoming event will now finally come to place after eighteen months of planning and preparation between Kick Entertainment and VT1s whom have expressed how happy they both are to finally make this moment happen and how they hope to grow this Melanesian experience to a greater level. VT1s comes with the support of Chillers as the naming rights sponsor for this event, as well as Lamana and Air Niugini. All VIP and Balcony tickets for tomorrow night’s show have been sold out with only limited arena tickets still available.