Pacific Break 2025 Launches on June 27

Pacific Break 2025 is set to launch on June 27, with a concert in Samoa to mark the opening of song submissions.

The biggest song contest in the Pacific is back, with the search underway for the best original artist from the Pacific and Timor Leste. Entries for the contest will open on June 27, with the winner receiving an all-expenses paid trip to perform at WOMADelaide.

The launch concert in Apia, Samoa on June 27 will feature past winners of the competition alongside two of the biggest artists in Samoa. Performing for the audience are past winners Chris Rohoimae (2024, Solomon Islands), Ju Ben (2023, Fiji) and Danielle (2022, Papua New Guinea), while Mr Cowboy and Tofaga Meke join the celebration.

The winner of Pacific Break will once again be determined by a jury; the jurors are:

• Joji Malani –  Australian-based Fijian artist and label head
• Ngaiire – Papua New Guinea born Australian singer
• Annette Tripodi – WOMADelaide Associate Director
• Hau Lātūkefu – ABC Radio Australia presenter
• Sose Fuamoli – ABC Radio Australia presenter

Song submissions will close on August 25 at 23:59 AEST. The winner of Pacific Break 2025 will be announced on October 16 during ABC Radio Australia’s morning program Nesia Daily.

The competition is open to original and unsigned artists from across the Pacific. The contest is open to singers from:

•  American Samoa
•  Cook Islands
• Easter Island
•  Federated States of Micronesia
•  Fiji
•  French Polynesia
•  Guam
•  Kiribati
•  Marshall Islands
•  Nauru
•  New Caledonia
•  Niue
•  Northern Mariana Islands
•  Palau
•  Papua New Guinea
•  Pitcairn Islands
• Rotuma
•  Samoa
•  Solomon Islands
• 🇹🇱 Timor-Leste
•  Tokelau
•  Tonga
•  Tuvalu
•  Vanuatu
•  Wallis and Futuna

Pacific Break

Pacific Break is the largest music competition in the Pacific region, it is open to unsigned artists living in the Pacific and Timor-Leste. The contest is organised by ABC Pacific and has been held since 2008, it returned in 2022. The past winners are:

• 2008 – Vanuatu – 26 Roots – “Broken Promises”
• 2009 – Papua New Guinea – Emmanuel Mailau – “Children”
• 2010 – Solomon Islands – III Kings – “You Alone Me Magnify”
• 2011 – Fiji – BSQ – “Rue Ele Ele remix”
• 2012 – Cook Islands – Jaik Berg – “My Oh My”
• 2022 – Papua New Guinea – Danielle – “Fight”
• 2023 – Fiji – Ju Ben – “Sema Mai”
• 2024 – Solomon Islands – Chris Kamu’ana Rohoimae – “Naratana manu”

Image Source & Source: ABC