Feature in 2007 ASCAP Playback

Songwriter, producer and publisher BOBBY PILEGGI is helping to bring modern Hawaiian Island music to the world...

Usually, when someone wants to make it in the music business, they head to one of the world's foremost music hubs, like New York City or Los Angeles, to throw their hat in the ring. Bobby Pileggi, a former disc jockey and a budding songwriter, headed 6,000 miles away from Manhattan to the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i to make his mark. After falling in love with the climate and the culture, he met a kindred soul in Brad Thayne, a journeyman guitarist and recording engineer who was building a studio there. The two decided to collaborate on a music project inspired by the traditional chants of the island's residents, and it set Pileggi's life on a unexpected new path that currently finds him as one of Hawaii's major music publishers (Robert Sterling Music) and one of its greatest champions for its modern music.

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