Ashley Lilinoe

19 year old Ashley is another cute and very talented musician from Hawaii—they must be putting something in the water.

I was listening to an old favorite version of House on Pooh Corner (yes, House on Pooh Corner) by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band when over to the side I noticed an attractive young woman with a towel on her head had done her own cover. Ashley Lilinoe (born Ashley Adams Soderberg in Honolulu) has been singing and playing the ukulele since she was a child and later picked up the the guitar. She does all genres, does them pretty damn well and looks quite fetching in the process. You can check out her Instagram, YouTube and her home page for more info and looks.

UPDATE

While watching American Idol’s 1-14-16 episode a young Hawaiian woman performed. She would have slipped past without me recognizing her but when she gave her name and I heard “Soderberg” it clicked. She performed “Black Velvet” and looked/sounded good doing it. For the record, Harry Connick Jr. and Keith Urban moved her on while Jennifer Lopez gave her the thumbs down.

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  1. Avatar of The-Dean

    Very pretty, even with a towel on her head. And she does a splendid version of Fly Me to the Moon:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BErx_cczOkA

    Great voice and talented guitarist. She has great sound in her home setup, too.

    I could do without the hand pose thing so common among young female singers (that always makes them look stupid, IMO), but no biggie.

  2. Avatar of Guest Poster

    Certainly very talented, but with a similar ‘black’ vocal style to so many other female pop singers these days, which I have to admit I’m finding tiresome. Very pretty, and those abs in the second pic are sensational!

  3. Avatar of The-Dean

    Dr. Lee,

    Doc, I don’t think she has a particularly “black” style. At least not on the few videos I watched. She does have a very jazz-style voice, IMO. Which I guess for some people equates to a black style. But I don’t really hear that jazzy thing too much, among younger female singers.

    And the choice of her material is very interesting and eclectic. I will take this over K-Pop and most of what passes for American pop, these days.

  4. Avatar of Guest Poster

    The-Dean,

    Her intonation is very much in line with the current generation of ‘soulful’ singers, which was initiated by black singers and imitated faithfully by many white ones. I find it very clichéd and stylised—I wish she’d just sing naturally.

  5. johnsmith’s avatar

    Doc, I’m with you on the six pack abs. I have a great fondness for the Hapa girls :)

  6. Avatar of IeatCows

    Nice package! Beautiful, fit, talented. I think its time to wiki wiki out to the islands for another visit.

  7. gunnar’s avatar

    she’s a singer, so none of these pics show how she could look like if she were shot in an actual sexy photoshot, so there is too little material to really judge

  8. Avatar of HidyHo

    Oh God .. YES!!!

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