Biography Wikipedia
Group Members: Cecilio Rodriguez, Henry Kapono
Wikipedia:
Cecilio & Kapono is a Hawaiian pop music duo formed in 1973 by Henry Kapono Ka’aihue and Cecilio David Rodriguez (age 67 in January 2012). The duo released three albums on Columbia Records: the self-titled Cecilio & Kapono (1974), Elua (1975), and Night Music (1977). To date, the duo has released more than a dozen full-length albums which have incorporated various genres including Top 40 pop, modern soul, funk, disco, rock, and traditional Hawaiian. Individually, the two artists have also released numerous solo recordings.
Cecilio's child sex scandals
Cecilio was given a "deferred acceptance of not guilty plea" in Hawaii in 1994 on charges involving sexual contact with a minor. On 27 January 2012, he pleaded no contest in California to sexual molestation of two sisters and was sentenced to six years in state prison, five years of which were suspended. The sisters were around 8 and 9 years old when the acts occurred in the late 1990s.
