Daniel Rae Costello

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Daniel Rae Costello (17 June 1961 – 22 July 2019) was a Fijian-born musician based in Samoa. A man of great faith in Jesus and a family man, he is survived by 4 daughters, a son, and wife Corrina.In 1979 he recorded his first solo-album called "Tropical Sunset" which wasn't much of a success but three years later, his album, Lania which was a huge success in Fiji and around the Pacific. After his mother died in 1985, he changed his name to Daniel Rae Costello. He moved to Australia a few years later because of the 1987 Coup where he wrote two songs, Samba and Take me to the Island and returned to Fiji and started his own Studio and Production Suite called "Tango Sound Productions" and recorded his first big hit album, Samba. Since 1978, he has recorded 30 albums to date in the last 30 years. He was an accomplished songwriter, composer, arranger, audio engineer, vocalist, musician and producer in the Pacific region. He recently recorded an album with Toni Willé from the Dutch group Pussycat, called Let The World Sing. The first single, originally a hit for Pussycat Georgie gained numerous airplays on Fiji radio.