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How Hawaiian culture inspired this ukulele-strumming Ormond Beach musician

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October 13, 2022
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ORMOND BEACH, Fla. – Brad Yates was 8 years previous when he was gifted a piano that started his love for music and he was a teen when the Beatles took the music world by storm.

Beatlemania was a turning level for the younger, aspiring musician.

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Brad Yates as a younger boy

“The Beatles got here on the Sullivan Present and the subsequent day, each boy in America purchased a guitar,” stated Yates, smiling ear-to-ear.

From the guitar, he graduated to the trumpet in junior excessive, after which, impressed by the rock band The Doorways, Yates began taking part in keyboards. His skilled music profession kicking off on the age of 14.

Yates spent a number of years on the highway everywhere in the nation. In 1980, he joined a band known as Sons of the Seaside that took him to paradise.

Yates, his spouse Tamara, and pals on the Kalapaki Kai in Kauai, Hawaii throughout his time on the island within the early 1980’s (WKMG)

“I went to Hawaii for a gig that was speculated to be a month lengthy and was six months,” Yates recalled. “Whereas I used to be there, my girlfriend got here out and we ended up getting married and staying for five years.”

When requested what style Yates makes a speciality of, the musician, who now lives in Ormond Seaside, had a distinct form of reply.

“I name what I play seaside soul. It encompasses every part from rock ‘n’ roll to reggae with a jazzy, blues, funky, soul feeling to it,” Yates stated. “The title simply appears to cowl the entire gamut.”

Whereas in Hawaii, Yates discovered yet one more instrument so as to add to his proficient repertoire—the ukulele.

Brad Yates taking part in piano early in his profession (wkmg)

Yates fell in love with the Hawaiian tradition, saying his favourite half in regards to the music is the love the locals have for household.

“They had been vastly targeted on household. No person was excluded from events,” Yates stated. “Everybody from grandmas to little infants can be there and I used to be actually appreciative of that sturdy household worth.”

Brad Yates (WKMG)

After all, there’s much more to Yates’ music story.

You possibly can hear extra of his story, in addition to a particular music he wrote years in the past for his now late spouse Tamara, on the most recent episode of Riff On This. Belief me, that is one episode you gained’t need to miss.

Watch the complete interview within the media participant above.

Take a look at each episode of Riff On This within the media participant beneath:

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