Payudara farah zubir said biography

00:00At a time when I feel sometimes we forget what it is to be Singaporean, I think his

00:08music brings people together and really unites us.

00:11His music spoke for him and his music still speaks for him today.

00:31He was very mesmerised with the lights of Singapore and that began his adventure that

00:38the Dutchman asked him to follow.

00:42Pak Zubia grew up in Bukit Tinggi in West Sumatra, which was colonised by the Dutch

00:48at that time.

00:49But when he went to primary school, he had a Dutch music teacher who taught him how to

00:55read music, solfege, doremi.

00:57He and his friends would make their own flutes from bamboo.

01:02On moonlight nights, they would roam around the village to entertain the adults.

01:08But then the adults did not quite appreciate them because they were making a lot of noise,

01:14I think.

01:15He was very talented, so he picked up the flute, the guitar, percussion, the violin

01:19was his favourite instrument.

01:22He was very