Micki and Iked Mikayla Kilbury (originally from Southern California) and Iked Etpison (originally from Palau) met in Honolulu, Hawaii, and have been making music together since 2016. I first came across them in my usual trawling through YouTube whilst checking out Seydel harmonicas. There it was! I saw their song recorded for Seydel - ‘Forever Summer Lover’. The music was so fresh and the harmonica embedded within the song - not dominating or supporting,- but properly Editorial Team integrated into the music.
FOREVER SUMMER Steve Pardue,
Micki and Iked met whilst studying in Hawaii - in fact, it was one of their professors who brought them together and suggested they should meet as they ‘would get on’. After being part of a band, they eventually branched out on their own to explore and play their own music. ‘When we first started playing music together, we would go to open mic sessions every week and played in venues across the island, like the Blue Note in Waikiki. We play and write music with the harmonica as if it were Iked’s voice, doing call and response harmonies.’
