Two-Time Pele Award Winner
Junior is a two-time recipient of a Pele Award in 1999 and 2002, recognizing creative work within Hawaii’s advertising and communications industry.
Career & Accomplishments
A Career Across Voice, Media, Music, and Entertainment
Four decades of work
Different roles. A consistent purpose.
Many of those areas have overlapped throughout his career. Performing informed broadcasting. Commercial voice work deepened his understanding of communication. Music, composing, and producing developed alongside his work with the human voice. Each area added experience that carried into the others.
Across more than four decades, Junior has worked in front of audiences, behind microphones, in recording studios, with students, artists, business owners, and clients. The roles have been different, but communication, creativity, and connecting with people have remained consistent throughout.
Career at a Glance
40+Years
Commercial voice, music, performance, and media
400+Original compositions
20Years
Hawaii radio and broadcasting
2Pele Awards
37+Years
Voice development and education
Awards & Recognition
Work recognized locally and nationally.
Multiple National Silver Microphone Awards
Junior has received multiple National Silver Microphone Awards for work in broadcast and commercial production.
Award-Winning Producer
His career has included nationally recognized work producing radio and television commercials, advertising music, and recorded music.
Behind the microphone
Commercial Voice Actor
Junior has worked as a commercial voice actor since 1985, providing brand voice, narration, character reads, and promotional spots for local and national advertising campaigns across radio, television, and digital media.
His commercial voice work has included campaigns for airlines, financial institutions, automotive brands, hospitality groups, retail centers, and government organizations.
Decades of professional voice work gave Junior firsthand experience in how tone, timing, delivery, emotion, and interpretation shape the way a message is received.
Music and production
Composer, Arranger & Producer
Junior has composed, arranged, and produced more than 400 original compositions across classical, jazz, Hawaiian, contemporary, commercial, and orchestral styles.
His work has included radio and television themes, advertising music, live performance compositions, and recorded music.
Projects within that body of work have received national recognition, and music releases connected to his work have reached #1 within the Filipino music community.
Broadcasting Career
Twenty years on Hawaii radio.
Radio became a major part of Junior’s professional life beginning in the 1990s.
Over approximately two decades, he worked as an on-air personality, morning show personality, station voice, and international broadcast host for several Hawaii radio stations and networks.
1994 to 2000
KCCN FM100
Radio Personality / Station Voice
Junior worked as an on-air personality and station voice for FM and AM broadcasts, contributing to daily programming, on-air production, and recorded station branding.
1994 to 1997
KINE 105.1 FM
Station Voice
Junior served as the station voice, recording and delivering on-air branding elements.
June to July 1996
J-Wave Radio Network 88.3 FM
International Broadcast Host
Junior hosted a live international broadcast from Waikīkī that aired on the J-Wave Radio Network in Tokyo, Japan.
2000 to 2010
KIKI Hot 93.9 FM
Morning Show Personality
Junior was part of the morning on-air team for a high-visibility Honolulu FM station, participating in daily programming and live broadcast segments.
2008 to 2014
KDNN-FM Island 98.5
Morning Show Personality
Junior co-hosted morning programming on Island 98.5 and worked within the pace and demands of a daily live broadcast schedule.
Performing Artist
A lifetime of live entertainment.
Live entertainment has been a significant part of Junior’s professional career.
As a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, his career has included concert openings, television appearances, live radio performances, national anthem performances at major sporting events, and appearances across a wide variety of venues.
He performed in hotels, theaters, lounges, festivals, comedy clubs, shopping centers, and broadcast productions.
Working across such different settings required versatility, timing, audience awareness, and the ability to create a connection with people in real time.
Junior LIVE in Waikiki
A live variety show at the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani Hotel.
In 2010, Junior created and starred in Junior LIVE in Waikiki, a live variety show at the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani Hotel.
The production brought together music, comedy, hula, impressions, dance, ventriloquism, and guest performers.
The show brought many parts of Junior’s entertainment background together in one production and reflected the tradition of live variety entertainment in Waikīkī.
Recording Artist
Music has remained a constant.
As a singer, songwriter, composer, arranger, performer, producer, and recording artist, he has worked across both live entertainment and recorded music.
His experience as a performer and recording artist has also influenced his work with voices, music, and artists.
Vocal Development
More than 37 years developing the human voice.
Alongside his professional work in performance, broadcasting, music, and commercial voice, Junior developed an extensive career in teaching and developing the human voice.
For more than 37 years, he has worked in vocal development and education.
His approach draws from experience as a singer, commercial voice actor, broadcaster, emcee, recording artist, and performer. Rather than approaching the voice only as a musical instrument, Junior developed an understanding of how it functions across singing, speaking, performance, professional communication, and personal expression.
That work became the foundation of Voicemaster Vocal Development.
Author
The Universal Law of Attraction and Singing.
Junior brought his experience with voice and personal development into writing as the author of The Universal Law of Attraction and Singing.
The book explores the relationship between the human voice, confidence, expression, internal conditioning, and the way a person communicates and experiences themselves.
Writing became another way for Junior to explore ideas that had developed through years of working with voice, communication, and people.
A Career That Continues to Evolve
Experience carried forward.
Throughout his career, Junior has continued to expand into new areas while carrying forward the experience gained from the ones before.
Entertainment, music, broadcasting, commercial voice work, composing, producing, and voice development have often overlapped, with experience in one area influencing another.
Over time, that foundation expanded into writing, entrepreneurship, artist development, business consulting, and the other areas of his work today.
More than four decades into his professional career, Junior continues to draw from what he has learned through audiences, microphones, studios, classrooms, businesses, and the people he has worked with along the way.