Tuifa'asisina Korina Seiuli Lee
Tuifa'asisina Korina Seiuli Lee currently resides in American Samoa but hails from the mighty villages of Apia, Faleasi'u, Papauta, Solosolo, Papa Sataua and Sa'asa'ai Savai'i.
Her life has always been infused with the Samoan performing arts. Proudly coming from the musically renowned Le Au Salamo Family where she holds the High Chief Title of Tuifa asisina. Korina serves as founder, owner and choreographer of Le Taupou Manaia Academy of Traditional Samoan Dance, Music & Arts in Pago Pago, American Samoa, Auckland, New Zealand, & Apia, Samoa.
In the pageantry realm, she is Co-Founder of Manaia Events est. 2016, which for six consecutive years, has managed the Miss Samoa Pageant, and has helped numerous former Miss Samoa, Miss American Samoa, Miss Samoa Utah, and Miss Pacific Islands contestants in the Talent and Traditional Attire Category. Korina has also choreographed numerous opening numbers for Miss Samoa, Miss American Samoa, and the Miss Pacific Islands pageants.
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Tuifa'asisina is the Owner and Manager of Measina Samoa Creations in American Samoa, a Certified Fitness Professional for the American Council on Exercise, and a mother to her beautiful daughter Lorrina.
One of Korinas greatest accomplishments as a Master Tuiga Fafau artist, is creating a one of a kind 3-stick tuiga in which the lave is covered with plain u'a and hand painted with natural dyes on a siapo-mamanu by Tupito Gadalla, the late Mary Pritchard's granddaughter. This intricate tuiga fafau is now housed at the Auckland War Memorial Museum in Auckland, New Zealand.
Pictured is Lorrina Lee, the last Taupou to have worn the tuiga in 2020.