Singer-writer and music producer Koebi Faumui has a new single, Your Theme Song.

It’s a catchy number that he wrote out of frustration on behalf of a friend who’d been demeaned and manipulated by a particular person. 

“I was like, well, why don’t we just write a song about it?” Koebi says. 

His father/manager Garry calls the result, “a sly, cathartic ode to that person, the one who hijacks every conversation, drama and spotlight.”

“I like songs that make people either upset [or] makes them think,”

The milder-mannered Koebi sees it as “kind of a true song, but it’s kind of funny. And that’s why it’s okay. It’s a light-hearted song.”

“The kind of the direction where I wanted to head with this song was more poppy. I wanted it to feel a little bit more produced than most,” he says. 

At 23, Koebi is already something of a veteran. The youngest in a family of singers regularly performing traditional music in church, he and his older siblings Kashia and Salale perform as The Faumuis and together have recorded 10 original and five cover albums. 

He’s been playing guitar since around age six and continued to do so through his school days. He went solo in 2022, and now has a degree in music production and jazz guitar from the ANU School of Music. 

He never had the goal to get a degree, but says it was always an understanding between him and Garry, a social worker, that he would.

It’s all paid off. Now Koebi is now determined to put his own mark on his songs with a heavy focus on “more intellectual music and more instrumentals”.

After all, Garry always told him that the important thing in music is to use skills to tell your stories, and now he is. 

Koebi Famui, launch of Your Theme Song, Gang Gang Café, Watson, June 1.