Songs of hope, born of travel – Kevin Miso
Kevin Miso, who plays Saint Rocke Friday night at his debut EP release party. When he was in a land where nobody spoke his language, Kevin Miso learned how to sing. Eight years ago, Miso was a college student spending a year abroad in Spain. He’d grown up in a musical family. His father, Roland, grew up in Hawaii as a musician; his sister, Maile, had appeared on the television show Popstar and was a member of the band Eden’s Crush. There were always instruments around the family home. But Miso had never really realized how essential music was to him until he was all alone in Spain. He had that lonely feeling that comes from not speaking your native tongue, and one day he stopped into a guitar shop. A guitar, he thought, would make him feel more like he was at home. The shop owner handed him a beautiful Paloma gypsy guitar. “Look man,” Miso said. “I’m a student. I just want to play guitar in the park.” “Tell you what,” the man said. “A hundred Euros.” Miso, in disbelief, paid for the guitar. When he took it away and played it for the first time, he was astonished. “It sounded great,” he recalled. “Just unreal. And I thought, you know what? I can play some songs, but I want to write…
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