Our family has a proud heritage from Okinawa Japan (thus the name of our blog). It’s been very exciting to see that our children love Okinawa and are picking up on some of the cultural traditions from there.

Here below is a picture of Dee Kei playing the Okinawa Shamisen with Noriko singing.

He has taken a great interest in guitars this past year and now can claim that he plays four different types of guitars…bass, acoustic, shamisen, and the ukulele.

He’s in the band Shamrock 19 (http://www.myspace.com/shamrock19band) and plays Bass Guitar and sings backup. He does have a couple of original songs where he’s been the lead songwriter. I’ll have to post a follow-up later with these. We’re all very proud of him.