Vintage best bets: (with brother Keola) : "Pure Hawaiian Magic," Paradise Productions "The Best of Keola and Kapono Beamer," Music of Polynesia. Na Hoku Hanohano Award winners: "Great Grandmother, Great Grandson," OnoPak Music "Paradise Found," OnoPak Music and Intersound Records "Secrets Under The Sun," OnoPak Music "Escape to Paradise," Volcano Productions "Honolulu City Lights," Paradise Productions. Just out: "Pana Aloha, Hawaiian Heartbeat," Kapono Beamer Enterprises Ltd. "It not only heals, but it transports you to anywhere you want to go." "That's the power of music," Beamer said.
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Most recently, he joined Keal'i Reichel in the recording studio, co-producing the Maui performer's "Melalana." Over the years, Beamer also has contributed his songs to a host of TV and film projects as well as commercials. His music has been distributed in 30 countries throughout the world.īeamer also augments his personal projects with links to other Island acts. I do not need a gig, though occasionally, I do miss the live contact." "I've been fortunate enough to have had a recording career, built over the past 20 or so years, not only here but in Europe," he said. So instead of regular club gigs, his livelihood comes from royalties and studio work.
I'm most comfortable in a controlled creative environment, like the recording studio." "Basically, I have to kick myself in the 'okole to do a live show. Since splitting up with his brother, who moved to Maui, Beamer has maintained a solo career but hasn't performed live on a regular basis. With his brother Keola, Beamer helped shape the sound and look of contemporary Island music in 1970s Hawai'i, most notably with the enduring hit "Honolulu City Lights," and club appearances on the Waikiki circuit that brought young blood into the tourist mainstream. It's very listenable and easy on the ears." "I think the songs form a natural progression from the Helen Desha Beamer album, arranged in so many different ways and featuring acoustic guitar. The songs are first-time recordings for the Na Hoku Hanohano Award-winning performer, though the selections have been his favorites for years. "He knows the kauna of the music he knows the language," Beamer said. "Pana Aloha" is the result, the title evolving from Hawaiiana scholar, teacher and composer Puakea Nogelmeier. "They said do whatever is in your heart and soul." "Felissimo, my partners from Japan with an Italian company name, wanted to sponsor a project," he said. "Interestingly, the album was done with a Japanese partnership," said Beamer, whose music has had exposure in Japan and throughout Europe. "Pana Aloha," his 18th album, is a collection of beloved island melodies one original and 11 very familiar songs, performed in a seductive and graceful style intended to evoke warm, kind, and gentle massages for the soul. He died while listening to the album."īeamer is a guitarist, composer, singer and a recording artist who has devoted quite a few projects to his slack-key guitar wizardry. He said the songs gave his dad comfort and peace he was a part-Hawaiian man.
"This guy called me to say that his father was in the hospital, dying from cancer, and the only thing he wanted to hear was my album of my great grandma's songs. "Ever since I did 'Great Grandmother, Great Grandson' (his last Island CD), I have had feedback on how this old Hawaiian music in the last album, the music of my great grandmother, Helen Desha Beamer has the ability to heal," he said. The title, he said, can mean "a love for places," but he prefers another meaning, "Hawaiian Heartbeat." Or "the pulse of aloha." "And when you're in the hospital with medical problems, or even dying, music can really help bring comfort at a time of need."īeamer, 49, the younger of the former Keola and Kapono Beamer brother team, has just released "Pana Aloha," a CD of instrumentals intended to heal and comfort. "As I get older, I have come to realize how powerful music can be to soothe a heavy heart," said the Hawaiian entertainer. Kapono Beamer has discovered the healing power of his music, as he presents his new CD,"Pana Aloha, Hawaiian Heartbeat" His new effort, "Pana Aloha," is designed to massage listeners' souls.īy Wayne Harada, Advertiser Entertainment Editor Kapono Beamer has stayed out of the public eye as he has become older, but he invokes his musical power through studio work and occasional live performances. Photo by Gregory Yamamoto The Honolulu Advertiser
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