MY BOOK OF PRAYERS summons us back to our born gifts, and reminds us they were not gifted to remain dormant, complicit, or fearful. My intersections become maps to radical inclusion. Chronically ill time benders, Indigequeer visionaries, neurospicy un-apologies, survivor wisdoms… the medicines most often overlooked are most needed. I take up arms in the forms I was born for: drummer, dancer, singer, healer. This album urges for global intifada, in every tender and fierce form, until liberation and landback.

MY BOOK OF PRAYERS is carried by heartbeats of Indigenous percussion (the ipu, to’ere, hide hand drums, Jingle Dress chimes), and compassed to Rematriation. With Kanaka-Tahitian-Islander Soul and Northern Dakelh Folk Roots.

This album is simply KeAloha’s first try at describing the world of Native love and grief that they see and live everyday.

BURN FOR YOU

KeAloha weaves survivor dreams into heartsongs. Their Hawaiian, Tahitian, and Lheidli T'enneh Indigeneity meets Black and Brown music lineages. KeAloha beams Indigi-Soul wonder with radicalizing themes; Keali’i Reichel meets India Arie, Hiatus Kaiyote meets Labrinth. 

At 12, KeAloha’s Mama, ever making somethings-from-nothings, surprised them with drum lessons. Their foundation as a dancer and multi-instrumentalist packs Polynesian, jazz-fusion, and urban Native power. Through melody, spoken word, rap, and chant, KeAloha calls for Re-Matriation. 

In 2018 KeAloha was selected, nationwide, to drum for the Ottawa International Jazz Youth Summit. Speaking and meditating with Herbie Hancock was an anchor in their mapping of creative resistance and spiritual devotion. 

KeAloha brings Ohana medicine to the industry status quo - together, we rise. A disabled Two-Spirit and Māhū person, KeAloha works to resource the most-vulnerable.

KeAloha’s debut single in 2021, “Mama’s Hands”, landed CBC Searchlight’s Top 100, and their third single, “Mahina” rose to #13 on the Indigenous Music Countdown.

Through four years of survival mode and grief alchemy, KeAloha presents their debut album: MY BOOK OF PRAYERS.