Kolohe Kai has consistently been one of the most popular artists in Pacific Island Reggae music for over a decade. The project of singer/songwriter Roman De Peralta, born and raised on the island of Oahu, has produced 10 Isla
Kolohe Kai has consistently been one of the most popular artists in Pacific Island Reggae music for over a decade. The project of singer/songwriter Roman De Peralta, born and raised on the island of Oahu, has produced 10 Island Reggae hits since signing a record deal at age 17. His sound infuses the localism of ukulele music with rhythms of roots reggae, and more recently pop and r&b-pushing Kolohe Kai into an elevated tier of Island Reggae.
Hirie has lived an itinerant existence. With her English father working for the U.N., she was raised in the Philippines, Italy, then Hawaii."We never stayed rooted to one place for long," she explains. "Hirie" is a nod to that multiculturalism, a mix of "Hawaii" and "irie," the Jamaican term for one's state of mind. "Most of the radio stations on the island were reggae," she explains of her upbringing on Oahu. "It fits the lifestyle so effortlessly: ditching school and blasting all this music about emancipation from mental slavery."
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