Episode 138: Lehuauakea
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The Challenges of Being a Native Hawaiian Artist
I was wondering if you want to speak more about the challenges of being a Native Hawaiian artist, and I assume that gets you pigeonholed or exoticized in some way. You said probably keeping up with or trying to balance what I want to do personally as an artist versus what other people perceive me to be and want from me. Yeah, definitely pigeonholed. A lot of the times it's great and wonderful. And I'm able to do so much for my community and and represent us in a very positive way that hasn't yet been done. But yeah, you you deal with things like that a lot.
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