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2024 Update
Happy New Year from the Bad Papa music duo of Hawaii!
We hope 2025 will be even better! Here are some highlights from the past year.
2024 was filled with some great music accomplishments!
Bad Papa had 15 performances at the Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort,
3 private parties & a few Blue Dragon shows!
On Valentine’s Day, Bad Papa opened for HAPA again at the Blue Dragon Tavern.
Our performance was highly praised by Graham Nash.
We took home 3 Big Island Music Awards (BIMA’s) this year.
“Island Brothers” by Bad Papa won Contemporary Album of the Year.
“Commercial World” by Bad Papa won Single of the Year.
“Someday I’ll Catch My Wave” by Jammin Joe Buck won Rock Album of The Year.
Bad Papa’s song “Skydancers” was a finalist for Best Rock Song in the
Winter 2024 World Songwriting Awards.
Jammin Joe Buck & Bad Papa music duo were both nominated for
Favorite Entertainer of the Year in the 2024 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards.
“Island Brothers” by Bad Papa was a finalist for Contemporary Album of the Year
and “Someday I’ll Catch My Wave” by Jammin Joe Buck was a finalist for
R&B Album of the Year in the 2024 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards.
Jammin Joe Buck & Bad Papa music duo were interview guests on the
All Abilities Network global podcast show on (Apple & Spotify)
Bad Papa released a new single on July 20, 2024 called “Hawaiian Country Blues”.
Available on all streaming digital music platforms.
Bad Papa won Best R&B Song in the Spring 2024 World Songwriting Awards
for our original song “Commercial World”.
Bad Papa released a new single on August 8, 2024 called “The Friendly Skies”.
Available on all digital music streaming platforms.
Bad Papa music is now being aired on Radio GOGO with many tracks in regular rotation.
“Riding On Air” by Bad Papa was added to ISSA Radio.
“Riding On Air” and “Hawaiian Country Blues” by Bad Papa was added to Pipeline 2 Paradise Radio.
Bob was accepted into the Recording Arts Academy (Grammy’s) as a voting member.
Bad Papa was a finalist for Best Modern Country Song in the Summer 2024
World Songwriting Awards for our song “Hawaiian Country Blues”.
New Bad Papa album “The Ride” was released to all digital music platforms on Nov. 8, 2024.
Bad Papa was in the October edition of Billboard Magazine for being on their
“Contender’s List” for Grammy nominations.
Bob was elected to join the Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts (HARA) board of governors.
December 2024, Bad Papa's song "Judgements" won Best Alternative Song in the
Fall 2024 World Songwriting Awards.
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June 16, 2024 update:
Bad Papa is the award winning music duo of Jammin Joe Buck and Bob Bojorquez from the Big Island of Hawaii.
The multi genre duo have been writing and producing original music together since 2015. Several albums & singles released.
An Email we received:
I love listening to my Lava Steamroller CD!! Thank you so much for it! It is a feast for my ears. The lyrics are spot on. The rhythms are hypnotic and convey the movement of the islands. Through Google searches, I learned that Joe has the father and grandfather's who played trumpet in San Francisco with deep roots to the Lyman family of Honolulu. The background guitar fingering of Lava Steamroller captures Pele's persistent joy while reclaiming her land as she destroys places dear to us. I play it on an old stereo with a 6 CD magazine accessing the songs randomly. The CD holds its own with those of IZ, Keali'i Reichel, Brothers Cazimero, Amy Hanaiali'i Gilliom, and the Beamers, almost all of whom I have heard in person. Pretty heady competition! But I get an extra kick when a Lava Steamroller song begins.
WOW MAHALO!!!
Kupuna Events
We absolutely love getting paid for doing something we love to do. Writing, producing and performing great music is a lot of hard work, so we don’t like to play for free!
However, we do love to perform for our kupuna (elders) at the Regency retirement home in Kona, HI. The responses and questions we get are truly payment in itself! Here are a few of our favorites;
1. “ I can’t remember the last time we had such good music, but then again, I can’t remember anything”
2. “Do you know Yellow Rose of Texas?”
3. When I was 17 years old, I smoked a doobie with Carlos Santana!”.........Priceless!
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Adventures of a Blind Big Island Musician
So we’re playing a show at Dona & Toni’s in the Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, and Bob and I are having an extremely good
performance. We are playing in the lounge for customers waiting to be seated in the main dining area. I heard the hostess telling a
large family “Well, we could bring your meal here if you’d prefer”. I knew they were digging our music, but wow, that’s cool!
Between songs, Bob usually asks folks where they’re from, but not a word this time, so I decide that I’m going to ask “Where are you
folks from?” 15 seconds of silence goes by and then I hear “Hai,.....Japan”.
I respond with my best domo arigato goziamos. Then I hear in a very deep Japanese voice reply “Very good!
The family stayed and listened to us for two hours. After the show, the head of the family came up to me and reached out his hand.
Bob told him that I could not see his hand, and he was blown away when he realized that I am blind. He grabbed my hand and said to
me “Music, what kind?” I told him Hawaiian. “Ah, Hawaiian” he replied. Then I said and Spanish. “Ah, Spanish” he replies. I then tap
Bob’s chest and my chest to tell him that our music is from our hearts. He understood! He squeezed my hand and said to me “Very
soulful and very difficult” in that beautiful deep Japanese voice. It made our night, and I will never forget that man and his wonderful
family for as long as I live! Aloha
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Bad Papa with Kenneth Makuakane and Barry Flanagan AKA HAPA.
