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That’s the voice of Auli’i Cravalho, Moana in the Disney movie of the same name.
The 16-year-old Mililani girl is on her way to Samoa for a special showing of Moana at Apollo Cinemas tonight.
The star of Moana is traveling with her mother and siblings and producer Oscar Scherer and Directors Ron Clement and John Musker.
The group arrived from Honolulu on last night’s Hawaiian Air and was welcomed at the airport by the American Samoa Visitors Bureau.
They will be on the first Polynesian Airlines flight to Samoa this morning.
The showing will be followed by a question and answer panel.
Cravalho was born in Kohala, Hawaii and is of Chinese, Irish, Native Hawaiiian, Portuguese and Puerto Rican descent.
At the time she made her breakthrough, she was living in Mililani, Hawaii with her mother, and was in her freshman year of high school at Kamehameha Schools’ Kapalama campus.
Cravalho has stated that she was initially not going to audition for Moana because “there were already so many great submissions over YouTube.”
However, an agent from Oahu encouraged her to audition for the role.
The Walt Disney Company has stated that Cravalho was the last person to audition out of hundreds of actresses.
