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Isabeau Waia’u-Walker, at heart, is a storyteller and songsmith who unites vulnerable transparency with hypnotic melodies and harmonies that will remain in your mind long after the music ends. She is a breathtaking embodiment of potent paradox; her sound dubbed “bright gloom”, yet another nod to the dualities her music carries and communicates song by song. Hailing from the Hawaiian islands with its deep indigenous heart and steeped in the beautiful bustling expressions of Portland and the Northwest, she lives and creates in the tensions of cultures, race, and language, and the product is, and always has been, a type of tender fortress in a world of harsh realities. Her ethereal voice brings the perfect compliment to the earthy weightiness and real life grappling happening in her lyrics. Her commitment to producing honest, vulnerable, poetic, and resonant music has already produced her EP “Better Metric” and two full length albums, “Body” and “Heavyweight”, and her third and highly anticipated EP “Cloudhunter”, recorded at The Center for Sound, Light and Color, is due this coming summer. She has toured the PNW with her own band, solo touring all over the country and Mexico, as well as extensive touring as a member of the band Y La Bamba. This fall, her second EP CloudHunter will be released on Better Company Records. Mellifluous and mature, Isabeau and her music are a taste and see deal. Partake, and you’ll understand.
