Eden Kai, 16 year-old acoustic guitarist virtuoso singer-songwriter, performed original instrumental songs on acoustic guitar at the 50th State Fair at the Aloha Stadium in Hawaii on July 4th Independence Day weekend celebration 2015. It was Brown Bags to Stardom Day showcasing the winners of the prestigious statewide competition.
Eden Kai was this year's 2015 Grand Champion and also 1st place Music Instrumental. This acoustic guitar player gave an amazing live performance. This is the same competition which launched the careers of Bruno Mars, Jake Shimabukuro, Tia Carrere, Glenn Medeiros, Yuna Ito, and many other stars from Hawaii.
Special thanks to Brown Bags to Stardom executive producer Johnny Kai for his excellent service and work in continuing this amazing talent competition which has been a household name in Hawaii since the 1970's, long before American Idol and America's Got Talent! Johnny also does a great job interviewing Eden Kai after this performance.
This video starts with some people in the audience shouting "Hana hou! Hana hou!" which means "Encore! Encore!" in Hawaiian. For the encore Eden played his original acoustic instrumental song "She Saw Me Dance" regarded by many to be his best acoustic guitar instrumental song.
Enjoy this video showing a glimpse of an upcoming rising star. Eden Kai has appeared and performed on most all major TV and Radio media in Hawaii as well as in Japan. He has played at popular venues in Waikiki including the Hard Rock Cafe, Duke's Waikiki, and Lulu's.
He has already been receiving great recognition and praise in Asia, and was recently interviewed and performed live on FM FUJI TOKYO one of the biggest radio stations of all time in Japan in a joint broadcast with KZOO Honolulu to over 3 million listeners in Japan.
Eden Kai was born in Tokyo, Japan and moved to Hawaii two years ago. He is trilingual in Japanese, English, and Chinese.
In Japan he was known in his childhood as a gifted singer-songwriter-actor. He started playing the guitar 3 years ago while his voice was changing, and the last two years he has been teaching himself through watching YouTube videos and developing his own unique style.
Eden also loves learning from watching videos of the best ukulele players in the world and their beautiful ukulele songs . He really enjoys the playing the world's best ukulele player of all time of the best Japanese ukulele players ever to cherish these Hawaiian ukuleles and give their best live performance of Hawaiian songs ever.
Eden has acted in TV movies and dramas in Japan since he was 6 years old. He has also been dancing, singing and writing songs since he was 6. He debuted writing and singing a song for charity at the age of 10 "Sekai no Tomodachi" (Friends of the World in Japanese) selling on iTunes, Amazon, etc.
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