Entertainer. He received notoriety world-wide as an American-Samoan singer and steel guitar player, who formed “The Tau Moe Family,” a musical troupe that specialized in playing Hawaiian music. After his family moved to Hawaii about 1919, he became very interested in Hawaiian music at an early age. In 1927, his wife Rose, joined him and two of his uncles to formed the musical group, “Madame Riviere's Hawaiians” traveling on tour to Japan, China, Southeast Asia, Philippines, India, Burma, and Indonesia until 1934. Presenting the 19th century sound of true Hawaiian music, the group made an eight-song record in Japan but was released in the United States. The recording had accompaniments of guitar, uke, steel guitar, and Rose's falsetto voice singing. Samoan songs and dance was often worked into their Hawaiian routine. The same year their son Lani was born. In 1934 the “Madame Riviere's Hawaiians” disbanded, hence he, his wife, and five-year-old son made a musical trio. The songs "Ua Like No Ua Like," "Samoan Moon," and "Aloha Means I Love You" were recorded by Tau and Rose, in 1934. Since only rare copies of this 78 rpm recordings could be found in 1989, Moe's memory provided the music and lyrics for the award-winning release of these songs by Ethnomusicologist, Bob Brozman. A copy of this recording was archived at the American Library of Congress. Starting in 1935, the trio traveled to Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Turkey, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland, Russia, France, and Germany ending in 1938. At one performance to benefit an orphanage, they met Nazi leaders Adolph Hitler, Hermann Goering, and Joseph Goebbels. At this point, the American embassy advised him to leave Germany as war was pending, but he did aide Jewish musicians to escape Nazi Germany before leaving with his family. An attempt to return to Hawaii failed as Pearl Harbor was bombed and the Pacific was closed for civilian travel; the family found refuge in India during World War II, where he formed a big band. The trio became a quartet when daughter Dorian was born in 1945 as she began to sing, dance, and later played guitar all at an early age. After the war in the 1950s and 1960s, the quartet toured Western Europe, Japan, Asia and Australia. Besides performing in person, they appeared on television and films. This included the German film “Die Blumme von Hawaii" and the French film, "Les fleurs de Hawaii" in 1953. Over the years, their traditional Hawaiian music had evolved into a modern sound, which could be heard on their many European recordings, the last recording was in Yugoslavia in 1982. The family continued to tour until the late 1970s to early 1980s when Moe retired to his hometown of Laie and the group disbanded. He spent the rest of his life receiving awards and enjoying visits from his fans from around the world. Besides Hitler, the family performed for Sir Winston Churchill, Aristotle Onassis, Mahatma Gandhi and Egypt's King Farouk. He died of natural causes. His biography was published by Debashish Bhattacharya as “Hawaii To Calcutta: A Tribute To Tau Moe.” In addition, the recording of “Remembering the Songs of Our Youth,” was produced by the “Tau Moe Family” and Bob Brozman in 1989.