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I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.

I'm proud of being from Hawaii, and I'm proud of being Hawaiian, but I'm more than that, too.

As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my parents worked.

I'm from the US of A. Born in Des Moines, raised in the New York suburbs.

Hawaii is a beautiful place to bring up a family.

I had never been to Hawaii, and now I say that my body is from L.A. but my heart is from Hawaii, because I'm in love with it and it's home on every level, from a spiritual, soulful place.

I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.

I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I'm from the West Coast of New Jersey.