Blue Manoa (click on the name to view the video)
Today I did an interview with Japanese DJ Sachiko Uchida Kaaihue on J-Wave radio. She was asking me several questions about my career and my newest release entitled “The Dash” which is available online at iTunes and at Islandbeats.
During the course of the interview, I was asked to sing one of the songs from the new CD. I decided to do the song Blue Manoa, which I wrote for the communityʻs battle against the electric company who wanted to eradicate the the mountain top of Wa‘ahila ridge in order to string power lines for a new sub-station. This song talks about a person coming home to Manoa, hoping that his childhood memories are still intact. It is a resounding theme for each of us who has moved away from home, only to return to drastic changes…….