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Derek Nakamoto

About Me

Born and raised in Honolulu HI, doing what I do best creating and producing music here and around the world with some wonderful artist! Pretty busy these days moving around and am happy for a site like this to be able to meet new friends and keep in touch with old ones.Drop a line, let me know what you are up to. You can also check up on my website for more details of my work. Also launching a new company, Nakamoto Music Group which is taking the resources that I have built up over the years and making it available to artist in this new paradigm of the “music business”. I firmly believe it has never been a better time for new artist and new diverse music.My work sometimes keep me in the proverbial vacuum, MySpace helps keep me out of it, so hit me up folks! Take care ….

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/17/2005
Band Website: www.dereknakamoto.com
Band Members: me & whoever walks in the door ...
Influences: Donny Hathaway, Michel Colombier, Annie Lennox, Jonni Mitchell, DANIEL LANOIS. George Martin, U2, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, Luther Vandross, Ricky Lee Jones, Wayne Shorter
Sounds Like: I'm of Japanese-Chinese ancestry raised in Hawaii who loves South African Music and thought that Hawaiian Music shared roots with that as well as R&B and Country ... I don't know who I sound like other than "me"!
Record Label: www.nakamotomusicgroup.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Yoko Fujimoto & Derek Nakamoto in Concert

Derek Nakamoto & Yoko Fujimoto
Posted by on Tue, 19 May 2009 14:33:00 GMT

what a ride ....

It's been too long not writing here, I am grateful reconnecting with a few old friends here ... so MySpace is doing it's thing!Like most folks, I admit to getting caught up in this election, the chall...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:57:00 GMT

NMG ....new thoughts, new ideas!

What a year it has been. Creating music while watching the interesting shift into the new paradigm of what the music business is becoming! Power is back in the hands of the artist!After spending much ...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:23:00 GMT

12.20.2007 - Contemplation ...

I know I either say or think this thought every year, how fast time is moving! Another year about to go by and just as this one started out, in 2008 I hope to make better use of every precious minute ...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:33:00 GMT

Apologizes to my friends on myspace for hacker!

Hi friends,It was brought to my attention that a message I received from someone I do know (who I know would never send such a thing) entered into my comment page. I screened it knowing who it was fro...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:04:00 GMT

In the name of the dollar ... Outsourcing

I love the thought of our global community realizing our interdependence with each other and with that understanding looking for ways to co-habitate creating better understanding of our differences an...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:54:00 GMT

05.13.07 - The Beautiful Basque Country ...

I cannot let this experience go by without a blog ... spent a glorious week and a half with Fernando Saunders touring a few small towns in Basque Country located in the Northern part of Spain ... As ...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:45:00 GMT

April 24, 2007 - Keiko Matsui's Newest CD -

I am so proud of Keiko and grateful to have been a part of the creation of her new album entitled "Moyo", Swahili for "Heart and Soul". We traveled to South Africa to record this project with a wonder...
Posted by on Tue, 01 May 2007 08:43:00 GMT

Quantum Physics ... Laws of the Universe ... Mindblowing!

The more I get familiar with these Laws and concepts, I am blown away! On top of that, you know the feeling of having said words, done things, thought things, innately acted on things suddenly collide...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:40:00 GMT

1.26.07 - Alright, I love being in Japan!

It's approaching the end of the month and I have already been flying around the country with some cool experiences making great music. I am throwing a thought out there of an observation I have made a...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:30:00 GMT