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I saw you in my dreams

Some years ago my cousin lost her husband to a heart attack. Like a thief in the night it came. Leaving behind lost and pain. My wife and...

The Story Behind Maybe: How the Song Came to Be

This story starts about 20 years ago, back in 2000, at a time when our music career was doing pretty good. We had a few popular songs on...

The Story of Kolohe Time: A Musical Show About Hawaiian Values

Nearly 15 years ago, I noticed a need among the children of Hawaii. That need is a program called Kolohe Time.

Can't tell you how much fun I had producing A'ori.

Producing music is challenging and fun

Walking over water

Sam and I were on the phone one morning talking about another nut idea that I was trying make happen. We really think that this idea is...

2000lbs of sound

2000lbs of sound was our little inside joke that we used on stage. In fact, we would ask the audience to guess our combine weight. Mind...

There's a standing joke in the band and you can ask Sam or Bruce.

That joke, "send Sylvianne away so Aaron can write a Ballad". Yeah hahahahaha. When I'm alone was released Jan of 1998, but the song took...

One of my favorite things to do, is to watch a good heartfelt movie with my wife.

Last night she wanted to watch Minari a korean movie. I was like eh not sure about this one but ok. So much of this movie struck home...

A song for my Mom

After our first two albums my father would ask me, when would I compose a song for my mom. For the life of me I couldn't. No matter how I...

Moment by moment, the first song I ever wrote.

My wife and I had been married for about a year. We were both in college, and she was now seven and half months pregnant. We were excited...

Hush was the song, that would inspire me to pursue this crazy dream.

When my sons were little. My favorite family thing to do was the movies at Laie theater. Mind you I was selfish. Watching them watch the...

I had some friends that passed away while our families were young

The loss caused me to think long and hard about life and my family. So one night I had a dream. In that dream I was diagnosed with cancer...

We got signed to a major label in Japan!

and at the time this label had the number 1 J POP band in Japan, Morning Musume This was massive for our carriers as entertainers. For us...