Kai Honasan

thumb|right|Kai Honasan performing alongside Reese Lansangan at a gig in Makati on 17 June 2016.jpg Klarisa Rosario Honasan-del Rio better known as Kai Honasan, is a Filipino independent singer-songwriter best known for quirky, lighthearted ukulele-driven songs, receiving critical acclaim for her first album, "In Your Face", and achieving popular acclaim in the Philippine independent music scene for her live performances. She is married to Eco Del Rio, bassist for Chicosci (a punk Filipino band). Quotes I was 5 going on 6 when he was first elected, I’m 30 now. That was also when I first met him. Daughter tells Honasan: ‘You are already legendary’, MAger INQINQUIRER.net (5 June 2019) My entire life you’ve been somebody, and now you’re settling in to something a *little* less public. I can’t even begin to understand what’s going through your mind but allow me to provide a few words of comfort. Daughter tells Honasan: ‘You are already legendary’, MAger INQINQUIRER.net (5 June 2019) Super proud of you, I don’t think I said it enough in those 25 years because I was busy being angry. You did good. You did enough. You are already legendary. You will be remembered. Daughter tells Honasan: ‘You are already legendary’, MAger INQINQUIRER.net (5 June 2019) Your legacy was never your job, papa. It was always us. ‘You did good’: Kai Honasan pens message, as dad Gringo leaves Senate, ABS-CBN News (5 June 2019) Show me another man with a job like yours who built a family like ours. (Nada, right?) Because like what you said, the measure of a man is his family — and you did alright there. ‘You did good’: Kai Honasan pens message, as dad Gringo leaves Senate, ABS-CBN News (5 June 2019) Super proud of you, I don’t think I said it enough in those 25 years because I was busy being angry. You did good. ‘You did good’: Kai Honasan pens message, as dad Gringo leaves Senate, ABS-CBN News (5 June 2019) You did enough. You are already legendary. You will be remembered. ‘You did good’: Kai Honasan pens message, as dad Gringo leaves Senate, ABS-CBN News (5 June 2019) This is also why in a world with so much hatred, hypocrisy and deeper forms of violence, we and all we hold dearest, are invincible. ‘You did good’: Kai Honasan pens message, as dad Gringo leaves Senate, ABS-CBN News (5 June 2019) “I told myself, let’s think of the most convenient instrument to bring around...and I thought about the ukulele,” Kai Honasan takes her music (and the ukulele) center stage, By REN AGUILA (7 April 2014) “I actually wrote it on the keyboard and I transferred it [to] the uke and it sounded more fun,” Kai Honasan takes her music (and the ukulele) center stage, By REN AGUILA (7 April 2014) “because on the keyboard it sounded more mean.” Kai Honasan takes her music (and the ukulele) center stage, By REN AGUILA (7 April 2014) “because on the keyboard it sounded more mean.” Kai Honasan takes her music (and the ukulele) center stage, By REN AGUILA (7 April 2014) “I [started] as a classical pianist when I was four,” Kai Honasan takes her music (and the ukulele) center stage, By REN AGUILA (7 April 2014) “We were covering all the OPM chick-fronted acts like Imago, Barbie [Almalbis], Kitchie [Nadal], and Session Road,” she recalls, “and we’d try our hand at one or two songs. But it wasn’t really until college that I started writing my own songs.” Kai Honasan takes her music (and the ukulele) center stage, By REN AGUILA (7 April 2014) “It’s a policy for me to write only what I know,” Kai Honasan takes her music (and the ukulele) center stage, By REN AGUILA (7 April 2014) “I was surrounded by all these different cultures,” Kai Honasan takes her music (and the ukulele) center stage, By REN AGUILA (7 April 2014) “and I wrote it the day before I was about to leave for Manila, so it’s sort of a goodbye song, a love letter to all the friends I made there.” Kai Honasan takes her music (and the ukulele) center stage, By REN AGUILA (7 April 2014) “and it gives you enough motivation to make something out of yourself as a musician in any form…it makes you want it more.” Kai Honasan takes her music (and the ukulele) center stage, By REN AGUILA (7 April 2014) “I remember that night because I invited five friends, and then thirty came over!” Kai Honasan takes her music (and the ukulele) center stage, By REN AGUILA (7 April 2014) “The cool thing is, they let me do my own thing,” she said, adding that they would tell her to “think of your own thing and we’ll just drop in whenever we can.” Kai Honasan takes her music (and the ukulele) center stage, By REN AGUILA (7 April 2014) “Her writing, her songs, and her perspective are really very, very fresh.” Kai Honasan takes her music (and the ukulele) center stage, By REN AGUILA (7 April 2014) “I couldn’t imagine, remembering us talking about this four years ago.” Kai Honasan takes her music (and the ukulele) center stage, By REN AGUILA (7 April 2014) “it still hasn’t sunk in.” Kai Honasan takes her music (and the ukulele) center stage, By REN AGUILA (7 April 2014) “I’m going to start promoting [this record], because this is the best possible version of my songs,” Kai Honasan takes her music (and the ukulele) center stage, By REN AGUILA (7 April 2014) “Musically, I have no idea…but that’s the cool thing about it, I really can’t tell. It’s going to be exciting to see where this takes me.” Kai Honasan takes her music (and the ukulele) center stage, By REN AGUILA (7 April 2014) “(I really had) a mix of emotions because the last time people heard me, I was only 21,” Kai Del Rio reintroduces herself with ‘evolved’ sound, Jerry Donato - The Philippine Star (13 September 2024) “I’m nervous, but I’m really excited to reintroduce myself.” Kai Del Rio reintroduces herself with ‘evolved’ sound, Jerry Donato - The Philippine Star (13 September 2024) “Ayoko naman na parang new name, tapos pareho lang yung sound ng music (I don’t want, you know, the idea of being introduced with a new name and then my sound is the same),” Kai Del Rio reintroduces herself with ‘evolved’ sound, Jerry Donato - The Philippine Star (13 September 2024) “I feel like I’m a completely different human being from when I started out. I mean, you go through so many changes as a person, not just as a woman, as a person in your 20s, and as a creative person, it comes out in your art.” Kai Del Rio reintroduces herself with ‘evolved’ sound, Jerry Donato - The Philippine Star (13 September 2024) “the best way I know how to express and share whatever I’m up to.” Kai Del Rio reintroduces herself with ‘evolved’ sound, Jerry Donato - The Philippine Star (13 September 2024) “I actually wasn’t completely out of the music scene if you kinda follow the indie music scene. I was in a band for eight years, pero hindi ako frontman per se. I would sing but I was more of behind (the scenes), I mean, that’s what I also wanted.” Kai Del Rio reintroduces herself with ‘evolved’ sound, Jerry Donato - The Philippine Star (13 September 2024) “Everything was fun, and then, it turned into my job. Parang na-swerte na lang rin ako dun na I was never really gone from the scene, but it gave me enough time to kind of rediscover what I really like,” Kai Del Rio reintroduces herself with ‘evolved’ sound, Jerry Donato - The Philippine Star (13 September 2024) “You know what are the things in the music scene that I kind of want to participate in, kung ano yung music… kasi rock yung banda.” Kai Del Rio reintroduces herself with ‘evolved’ sound, Jerry Donato - The Philippine Star (13 September 2024) “And then, so, I started writing the song, and when I wrote it, parang sabi ko ito ata yung parang purpose nung title na yan, just to bring forth yung painful emotions in a song,” Kai Del Rio reintroduces herself with ‘evolved’ sound, Jerry Donato - The Philippine Star (13 September 2024) “And then, dun ko parang na figure out ito ata yung bago kong sound (that’s how I figured out my new sound), it’s piano-based and a bit of rock. Tapos, when I brought in my brother Karel Honasan to produce it, sabi ko, ‘OK. Ito na ata yung tunog ko.’ It feels like the me of now.” Kai Del Rio reintroduces herself with ‘evolved’ sound, Jerry Donato - The Philippine Star (13 September 2024) “As a songwriter, I feel like I need to have an angry song, I need to have a ballad in my repertoire when I perform again,” Kai Del Rio reintroduces herself with ‘evolved’ sound, Jerry Donato - The Philippine Star (13 September 2024) “I wrote it (Storm Like Me) very fast, 10 to 15 minutes. It felt like I was writing in my diary lang na, you know the general sadness when you’re going through something, and then, when I wrote it, I didn’t edit it, as in yun na yun. That was it. One time I told myself, ‘I want this song to be as raw as possible, as vulnerable and as raw as possible,” Kai Del Rio reintroduces herself with ‘evolved’ sound, Jerry Donato - The Philippine Star (13 September 2024) “Like what I would say in previous interviews, if ma-cover ito ni Ms. Regine, sobrang saya ko na (If Ms. Regine will make a cover of the song, it will make me very, very happy)… sana lang mapunta ito sa radar niya at tapos makanta niya.” Kai Del Rio reintroduces herself with ‘evolved’ sound, Jerry Donato - The Philippine Star (13 September 2024) “My dream proposal care of the guy I never ever thought I’d marry,” WATCH: Former 'Voice PH' contestant Kai Honasan is now engaged, ABS-CBN News (17 July 2017) “Still a little woozy and letting it sink in. I'm usually better at writing Facebook essays but I just keep watching this over and over again and getting distracted sorry,” WATCH: Former 'Voice PH' contestant Kai Honasan is now engaged, ABS-CBN News (17 July 2017) “Thanks Eco for wife-ing me up. Can't wait to be Mrs. Del Rio! I love you so much!” WATCH: Former 'Voice PH' contestant Kai Honasan is now engaged, ABS-CBN News (17 July 2017) “I started writing [songs] when I was 12 or 13,” WATCH: Kai Honasan performs original song ‘Tongue Tied’, Marga Deona (28 February 2015) External links Category:Women singers from the Philippines Category:Living people Category:Singer-songwriters