Mary Elizabeth Jo Dixen Pelenaise Kapi’olani Lawson is an introspective singer-songwriter, composer and performer. She is a woman of care and beauty. She is of the sun and the black earth. She comes from a Woman of Faith, so she too is a woman of faith. Mary began humming before she put words to melody. She would hum to her father when she was a toddler. He would come home from work, lay his head in her lap and she would hum primary songs or what she heard at home, in the car, in the world. On Sunday’s Mary’s mother would sing the harmony part of the hymns that were selected – shaping her ear and perhaps, forming an understanding of what to listen for.