Island Music Quotes

My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there. It's my favorite sound.

Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.

I'm from the Caribbean, and I love the dance hall sound.

Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.

I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!

My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.

There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

Music was always heavily involved with my spirit. My entire family is Jamaican. It's nothing but reggae music and those kinds of vibes.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

Growing up, the ukulele was always a respected instrument. It's a big part of our culture. It wasn't until I started traveling outside of Hawaii that I realized people didn't really consider the ukulele to be a real instrument.

I like Barrington Leavey; he's the best, and Toots and The Maytals are also the best.

The ukulele is the instrument of peace.