Member Since: 3/15/2007
Band Website: starrkalahiki.com
Band Members: on any given day of the week i am blessed and privileged to jam with the awesomest musicians in hawaii. on tuesdays (and sometimes wednesdays) i am at the hilton hawaiian village with ben taaca on acoustic guitar and adj larioza on cajon. on fridays i'm sharing the stage with jt harker and toyz of pleasure at jazz minds... stew sherman on drums, jon hawes on bass, jason nobriga on guitar and mark tanouye on keys. every other day of the week i am on the star of honolulu in the nova room with lenny keys, winston raval, jeanette trevias or reggie padilla on keys and john lundgren, tommy arsisto, george cristobal or reggie padilla on sax
Influences: anyone i see displaying an open connection to their creator and what they were meant do and be ... musically i'm especially inspired by so many people, my family, sarah vaughan, antonio carlos jobim, sandi patti, anita baker, rachelle farrell, ella fitzgerald, nancy wilson, diane schuur, diane reeves, ledisi, billie holiday, eva cassidy, stevie wonder, giacomo puccini, john barry, john signor, billy strayhorn, george gershwin ... the list keeps evolving...
Sounds Like: "we are the stars that sing,
we sing with our light,
we are the birds of fire,
we fly over the sky.
our light is a voice;
we make a road for the spirit to pass over."
-Algonquain indian
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None