📍 Honolulu, HI
Aloha, I’m Shai Shai and I am from Maui, HI. I’m humbled and honored to be a part of something special for the future of our industry, and being able to create a vessel for our creative hearts to excel in! I plan to continue finding knowledge and influence, and creating lifelong and healthy relationships in the industry—to heal the world through our craft, breaking generational trauma and stereotypes by simply being ourselves. We are a direct product of those we look up to; it’s special that I got to be a model for one of my inspirations, Bebe at the previous years’ ROH who encouraged me to be a part of Sharpfade Freshman. He was able to show me a feeling inside—pride, strength, and beauty; resulting in a product of determination, resilience, and perseverance as an artist. It’s important as artists to lift each other up, honor those before, during, and after us and I’d like to thank him and Byrd Mena for this series of events.