Isabeau Waia’u Walker (of y La Bamba and solo artist)

Bright gloom, a single duality of the many that define Isabeau Waia’u Walker. Songs that are soothing and soft while powerful, accessible while complex, sweet but aching. The tension of the contradiction that she holds nest in her core and reverberates through the layers of her product: storytelling, collaboration, presentation, music.

Culture, race, and language surface in her work; half a life in her native Hawaii, the second in Oregon.