His family and friends encouraged him to learn popular praise songs and to eventually write his own.
The role of the fakanau as a praise song was an important part of Tuvaluan culture.
A mini tour of Ireland, backed a praise song for the colour green!
With the string band, the music moved closer to its roots in the praise songs and social commentary of griots.
The music is mostly a collection of traditional praise songs with a rock style.
The musicians will often return good payment with praise songs to the donors.
All around, the soldiers bent in prayer as one of the priests began to declaim a praise song.
The bard said to me, "I've never mentioned the name of Onuava in my praise songs, and for good reason."
The music is a mixture of traditional and original praise songs with a rock style.
Our voices would be silenced, our praise songs fallen into quiet.