Cecilio & Kapono "Hawaii's Legendary Rock Duo"
Cecilio and Kapono (C&K) was known as a Hawaiian Soft Rock group 1973 by Henry Kapono Ka’aihue (Hawaii) and Cecilio David Rodriguez (California). Cecilio and Kapono were the first Hawaiian Group to become signed to a National Record Label (Columbia Records). The duo released nine albums and were described as: soul, funk, disco, rock, and traditional Hawaiian with a loyal following. They were blazing the road for other islanders to follow their path of Hawaiian Softrock to make Hawaii a big player in the music scene nationally from their experiences and made an island-inspired template for others to follow and to let people know that Hawaii is still big into making good music. What took people by surprise back then was how fast the audiences grew and how iconic they became so quickly and helped them quickly be another layer of music to help the Hawaiian renaissance and the Folk-rock renaissance that was going strong at the time. They have won Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards like the Lifetim...