Malani Bilyeu — founding member of Kalapana and a Hoku Award-winning solo artist — has died, friends and family reported Thursday. He was 69 and had a home on Kauai. State legislator Donna Mercado Kim ...
As one of the driving forces behind the seminal Hawaii band Kalapana, Malani Bilyeu penned a string of contemporary soft-rock hits that served as the soundtrack for a generation of local residents.
The first song Carl James “Malani” Bilyeu wrote after he and his wife Crystal were together was “King James Bible Believer.” ...