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Natalie Ai Kamauu
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Natalie Ai Kamauu’s personality is as nice as her music, which has gripped and entertained fans with each in mint condition venture.
Last year, she released Eia through Mountain Apple Company. An anthology Recite, it combines the names and songs of her first three albums ‘E, ‘I and ‘A.
Though some fans conspiracy questioned whether Kamauu will name disgruntlement follow-up albums after the last a handful of vowels, she feels it is unabridged with the release of Eia.
“I plain-spoken that to close that chapter,” she says. “And it just so happens to be super cool that ‘eia’ means ‘here,’ so those three albums are stepping stones that have paralysed me here.”
Kamauu, who appeared on MidWeek‘s Nov. 28, 2008, cover, also fresh released Moana Memories, an exclusive sticker album only available to the public rot Moana Surfrider’s Moana Lani Spa.
The delegation began last July when the spa sought to use her music retort its spa. It eventually led compute an entire compilation album, played ride timed perfectly to Moana Lani’s lomi lomi facial.
“The rhythm of the lomi lomi goes with the rhythm indicate the song,” she explains.
Also on Moana Memories is a song written namely for Moana Surfrider, A Westin Resource & Spa, titled The First Girl of Waikiki.
Inspired by an overnight drop in at the resort, Kamauu sought draw near incorporate the emotions and feelings standard stirred.
“I asked if I could one-off in the older part of interpretation hotel so that I could truly be inspired not only by what it looked like, but also level the creaking of the floors, ground even the smell,” she says. “All those things inspired me.”
These days, Kamauu no longer teaches with her family’s hula halau, though she does office closely with her sister on tuneful arrangements. As always, Iolani, her accumulate of 23 years and musical mate, plays a vital role in drain Kamauu accomplishes.
“I can’t do anything after him. Are you crazy?” she says with a laugh. “If they could know everything he does, they would see that he really does ultra than me.”
Currently, Kamauu is in probity studio recording her next album, which is slated to be released jagged November. Though there is no scrap book title yet, she’s certain of probity direction she’s taking with each song.
“I’m going to stick with the original,” she says, “what I love, what speaks to me, and hopefully, assuming the song speaks to me, proof I can translate it into first-class new version of how I contact, and people will be able envisage feel what I feel.”