国籍：美国 成员：Jr. King 、Mata 、Uncle Lui 、Big Rome 团体人数：4 简介：Common Kings are an American, Hawaiian, and Samoan reggae band from Orange County, California. The band's debut album, Lost in Paradise, was nominated for a Grammy Award. 从艺历程：Common Kings are more than a band of musicians, they are a family, alifestyle, a community, a brother and sisterhood, having grown uptogether in California's Orange County, four college mates who firstmet at a backyard barbecue 20-some years ago. Music was thecommon bond for these Pacific lslanders (all but one first-generationAmericans) who have together transcended their Polynesian reggaeroots to achieve pop crossover success since releasing their first musicin 2011-Samoan-born Hawaiian lead singer Sasualei “Jr. King” Maligaand Hawaii-raised Samoan guitaristTaumata“Mata” Grey; Fiji-bornbassist lvan “Uncle Lui” Kirimaua, and L.A.-born Tongan drummerJerome“Big Rome" Taito.The band has toured with Justin TimberlakeBruno Mars, Meghan Trainor, Fifth Harmony and CeeLo as well asheadlining their own shows and music festivals around the world. Common Kings have been releasing music on their own lslandEmpire/Mensch House Records label for more than a decade, withtheir first full-length debut, 2017's'Lost In Paradise, nominated forBest Reggae Album at the GRAMMYs.The long-awaited follow-up,aptlynamed CELEBRATION, follows a series of five songwriting campsaround the country (Miami, Hawaii, Orange County, Nashville, L.A.),winnowing down 120 songs to 12 over the course of almost two yearsduring and after the pandemic.Common Kings' island rhythms are asseductive as a lazyocean breeze, with a narrative that is an All-American story with a tropical twist.