KeAloha Browne weaves pathways for individual, community, and global Re-Matriation. In collective witness of global genocides, have led them to divest from industry spaces which continue to fuel colonial-capital plans - ultimately involving erasure of Black and Indigenous people and cultures. As a creative artist, their purpose is to reflect the reality we are facing, and offer pathways to mobilize for the future we all deserve. 

 

 

Shapeshifting through dancer, musician, disability advocate, queer dreamer, liberation weaver; KeAloha calls for Global Intifada in every tender and fierce form. KeAloha's fire for liberation justice sparked at five years old. The youngest of three siblings raised by their single mama; their Ohana battled the anti-Indigenous colonial family court system for over a decade to be free from domestic violence. They know what it means to bury their , to lose family to the A mixed-Indigenous and chronically-ill artist based in so-called “Vancouver, BC", their music carries essences of Alternative RnB, Latin-fusion, and Dream Pop mixed with sounds inspired by their Hawaiian, Tahitian and Lheidli T'enneh Indigeneity. "Dynamic, multi-pronged musical paradise. Grounded, Elevated, oceanic, bars, all of it" (Music Waste Festival 2022). ​KeAloha weaves soundscapes of Indigi-Pop wonder, beaming and shapeshifting as a vocalist, drummer, and dancer.  

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KeAloha’s young love for tap dance led her Mama to surprise her with drum lessons when she was 12. At 18 KeAloha moved to xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations in 2014 where she achieved a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Drums on full scholarship, while diving into performance and session work.​

This project was born out of necessity. “Living with chronic illness is like being a bird asked to learn a life on the ground. What I have cultivated is the power in shape-shifting, the beauty in unplanned paths, the relationships that bloom through deepened empathy, and the ancestral voices of resilience.” KeAloha’s music is a manifestation for the world we are weaving that centers disabled, queer, and Two-Spirit people, and liberation of all our relations. ​

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​KeAloha’s second single, was nominated to CBC Searchlight Top 100 in 2021. “Mama’s Hands celebrates my Mom, Nani, who raised me and my 2 older siblings… and celebrates our triumphs as a low income, brown, femme gang hailing from the North-West of Turtle Island” said KeAloha (Aesthetic Magazine). Their third single - Mahina - reached #13 in the Indigenous Music Countdown, “under a groove with rnb, soul and pop intonations, the singer mixes and interweaves the sounds in a percussive instrumentation and a tenderly beautiful song.“ (Iggy Magazine).​

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​The spring of 2021 to 2022 saw KeAloha across stages and circles in Turtle Island, including Banff Centre for the Arts, Oahu Indigenous Youth Workers gathering, Indigenous Day Live presented by APTN, Music Waste, Vines Festival, and Shipyards Festival. 

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After years being immobilized and bedridden with their chronic illness, KeAloha has patiently tended to sustainable recovery rhythms. Since summer 2022, they have been practicing and learning Pow Wow traditions; including Native Hoop Dance, Jingle Dress, and Fancy Shawl. KeAloha is rediscovering pathways home to themselves, and deepening their sense of purpose as a disabled, Two Spirit, Indigiqueer person.

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​Through creation and advocacy, KeAloha opens portals that traverse hope & lament, heartbreak & remedy. A Two-Spirit and Mahu person, a chronically ill time-bender and shapeshifter, music is part of KeAloha's commitment to collective liberation.

 

Their upcoming debut album is an intermodal medicine bundle: “Pieces of Who I am” is a fierce & tender soundtrack for the revolution of our youth.