'Music Portrait of a Humble Disabled Samoan': Fonotī Pati Umaga brings his story to the stage | RNZ

When Fonotī Pati Umaga slipped in the shower in 2005, he didn't know it would be the last day he would ever feel his legs | Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/RNZVideo?sub_confirmation=1 "While I was in the shower, I actually slipped, and I can remember that I was doing the running man, trying to get my balance, and then my feet just flipped up in the air, and I fell out of the shower. And my butt hit the floor, and the back of my head slammed into the wall, and all I could hear was this crack in my neck." He walked into a hospital later that morning, not expecting it to be the last time he would ever walk. That night, surgeons fused his spine and he has used a wheelchair ever since. Now, more than two decades later, his life story, the music, the fall, the depression and the advocacy is being told on stage in the 'Music Portrait of a Humble Disabled Samoan'. Read more: https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/588597/music-portrait-of-a-humble-disabled-samoan-fonoti-pati-umaga-brings-his-story-to-the-stage Video: Mark Papalii