"I felt the presence of my grandmother very very strongly as I was writing and recording this new project", Kapono says.
There are all new songs on the CD, all composed by Kapono and there are two Hawaiian chants, rearranged with new harmonies and even the voice of Kapono's grandmother, Louise Leiomalama Walker Beamer. It features his smooth vocal sound in a rich tapestry of acoustic and electric guitars, with jazz drummer, Noel Okimoto, and jazz bassist, Dean Taba. Kapono's new release is called, "Slack Key Dreams of the Ponomoe". Kapono began playing music on an ukulele at the age of four years old when his mother taught him to play and dance a family song that she wrote with her grandmother, "Pupu Hinuhinu." Surrounded by uncles and aunties who sang Hawaiian songs and danced the Hula, Kapono's early influences were his family, especially his grandfather, Francis Keali'inohopono Beamer, son of beloved Hawaiian music composer, Helen Desha Beamer, and his mother, Hawaiiana authority and Hula master, Nona Beamer. Sun Cho Lee", "Sweet Okole", "Only Good Times", "Seabreeze", and other works by the Beamer Brothers are forever embraced in the hearts and souls of those touched by the magic of Hawai'i. Kapono was the younger half of the popular group, "The Beamer Brothers," who defined the shape and direction of "Contemporary Hawaiian Music," and to this day have one of the biggest selling records in the history of the state of Hawai'i, the classic "Honolulu City Lights". A collection of new original songs recently nominated for the 2006 Grammy Award for Hawaiian Album of the Year, and winner of the 2006 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards for Engineering, and the very special "Ki-Ho'Alu Award" (Hawaiian Slack Key Award). Kapono's latest release is the critically acclaimed, "Slack Key Dreams of the Ponomoe". He is a great exponent of the traditional Hawaiian slack-key guitar, and to date has recorded 19 record albums. A talented guitarist, composer, singer, producer, arranger, engineer and recording artist, he is a multiple winner of Hawaii's version of the Grammy Awards, the "Na Hoku Hanohano Awards," with twelve awards, including Album(s) of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, Contemporary Hawaiian Album(s) of the Year, Instrumental Album(s) of the Year, Producer(s) of the Year, and Recording Engineer of the Year. Additionally, Kapono has authored the children’s book, A Beautiful Hawaiian Day, and has appeared in major motion pictures, films, television shows, and commercials.Kapono Beamer is a Grammy nominated recording artist. In 2017 the legacy of Kapono’s music was featured in the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles and the Hawaii Convention Center and relaunched as a digital program digitally for the 2021 Asian Pacific Islander Month. His solo career resulted in 20 albums, a Grammy Nomination and 20 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards. Together they recorded 13 albums, giving contemporary and folk-rock-and Hawaiian music-a new perspective. When he soared to the forefront of Hawaiian music in the 70s with the duo Cecilio & Kapono, they became the first Hawai‘i group to achieve a national recording contract (Columbia Records). The experience left him with a lasting commitment to peace, a deep appreciation for life, and compassion and aloha (love) for all people-themes that continue to resonate in his music. He and the band spent two years performing for the troops in Vietnam and Thailand before returning to Hawai‘i. Touring with a local rock band in the late 60s, Henry ended up stranded by the promoter in Vietnam. He has travelled the world with innovation and creativity of music that very few artists are able to sustain It’s the simple honesty of his lyrics and music that touch the soul and his wildly talented guitar-playing shares his joy of being alive. Bestselling solo albums such as Tropics, Home in the Islands, Dukes on Sunday, Henry’s house, and Wild Hawaiian continue to break new ground with multi-genre contemporary music and his collaborations in Henry Kapono & Friends celebrating the music that represents the soundtrack of Hawai`i, and the Songs of C&K, an ingenious concept of a collection of reimagined C&K songs featuring Kapono with Hawai`i’s emerging entertainers. Kapono has been at the creative forefront of contemporary Hawaiian music throughout his career, with the popular duo Cecilio & Kapono, whose music is as relevant today as in the 70s & 80s, to launching a solo career resulting in a Grammy Nomination and 20 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards (Hawai`i’s version of the Grammys) and fans worldwide.
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