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Singing Comedy Queen in Honolulu. Culture Creator & Collaborator.

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What a month. 🌈

Oct 1: SHAPESHIFTER came out on my birthday, with a release party at @hulaswaikiki

Oct 15: I opened for @bigfreedia at the @hawaiitheatre for @honolulupride

Yesterday: Pride family day at @honolulumuseum with my queens @thelucasbrand & @misstaraway

I’m so grateful to everyone who listened, showed up, shared and showed love. This album took me ten years to come back to, and you made it feel every bit worth the journey.

Now I’m giving myself permission to rest for a minute. See y’all on Halloween. 🖤

#sirdanpaul #SHAPESHIFTER #HonoluluPride #queermusic #newalbum

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🌺 LEI’D BACK: THE PRIDE EDITION! 🏳️‍🌈

What a NIGHT, Honolulu! Our official Honolulu Pride AfterParty kept the love, music and dancing going all the way until 4AM, and sirdanpaul was out among the folks capturing a little of the magic!

In this episode of LEI’D BACK, we catch up with Kumu Hula and Kahu Bradford Lum, who leaves us with a beautiful reminder: Pride is also about caring for the people who came before us. Check in on our kūpuna. Reach out to our elders. Make time to connect, listen and remind them that they are loved. ❤️

Because community isn’t just something we celebrate. It’s something we take care of.

AND THE WEEKEND ISN’T OVER!

🎶 TONIGHT: Kinetic Sunday Music with DJ KSM! Keep those Pride weekend vibes flowing at your favorite watering hole with a view.

🎃 UP NEXT: ROCKY HORROR HULAWEEN, October 31! We’re doing it ALL AGAIN with another special 4AM celebration!

A few late-night reminders:
• No entry or re-entry after 2AM.
• Bar service ends at 3AM.
• The party keeps going until 4AM!

Mahalo to everyone who made Honolulu Pride so special. The Gathering Place for Explorers is YOUR gathering place, and there’s always room for more love.

📍 Hula’s Bar & Lei Stand | 134 Kapahulu Ave, 2nd Floor, Waikiki

#LeidBack #HulasWaikiki #HonoluluPride #BradLum #TheGatheringPlaceForExplorers

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🚨🌈 TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT! BIG FREEDIA AT HAWAII THEATRE! 🔥

HONOLULU PRIDE WEEK, ARE YOU READY?!

Tonight, the historic Hawaii Theatre becomes a gathering place for music, movement, community, and unapologetic QUEER JOY as we welcome the one, the only, the QUEEN OF BOUNCE herself — BIG FREEDIA! 👑

And what an extraordinary lineup of talent coming together for this celebration!

✨ BIG FREEDIA — bringing that legendary New Orleans bounce energy to Honolulu!

✨ HAUS OF ZAMORA — serving drag excellence and getting the celebration started!

✨ UHM HIP HOP DANCE GROUP — bringing the moves and setting that stage ON FIRE!

✨ NEMINA MOON & GJ GANOTISI — two incredible artists joining me for a very special live performance of music from my newly released album, SHAPESHIFTER!

I’m so grateful to share this evening with these performers and to be part of something this special during Honolulu Pride Week.

And if you’ve been following my journey, you know this album began with an actual dream. Tonight feels like another beautiful reminder of what can happen when you trust the magic and follow where it leads. ❤️

HAVEN’T GOT YOUR TICKETS YET?

🎟️ Use discount code PRIDE15 at checkout for 15% OFF!

📍 Hawaii Theatre, Honolulu
📅 TONIGHT — Thursday, October 15

Oahu, let’s SHOW UP for these artists, for our community, and for each other. Bring your friends, bring your fabulous selves, and let’s give Big Freedia a Honolulu welcome she’ll never forget!

And find SHAPESHIFTER streaming everywhere at sirdanpaul.com.

LET’S MAKE SOME NOISE!!! 🌈🔥

#BigFreedia #HonoluluPride #SHAPESHIFTER #sirdanpaul #HawaiiTheatre

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TWO DAYS UNTIL BIG FREEDIA! 🔥🌈

This Thursday, October 15, we’re taking over the historic Hawaii Theatre, and I want YOU there!

I’ll be performing music from my newly released 15-track album, SHAPESHIFTER, with special guest musicians Nemina Moon and GJ Ganotisi, as part of an incredible night headlined by the one and only BIG FREEDIA!

PLUS, preshow performances by Haus of Zamora and the UHM Hip Hop Dance Group!

🎟️ GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!
hawaiitheatre.com
Use promo code PRIDE15 at checkout for 15% OFF!

I talk a little in this video about how SHAPESHIFTER came into being because I chose to follow an actual dream I had. Not a metaphorical dream. An honest-to-goodness dream.

And now, watching all of these extraordinary things unfold, I can’t help feeling like the universe is responding to that leap of faith.

Sometimes you have to act on the magic before the magic fully reveals itself. ✨

Speaking of which…

My new website is LIVE!

Visit sirdanpaul.com to stream SHAPESHIFTER on your favorite platform and explore the lyrics, album notes, promotional photos, and more.

This record has been a long time coming, and I’d love for you to spend some time with it.

But FIRST — let’s fill that theatre on Thursday and make some NOISE for BIG FREEDIA!

See you there, Honolulu. Let’s make a little history. ❤️

#BigFreedia #SHAPESHIFTER #sirdanpaul #HonoluluPride #HawaiiTheatre

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“Shapeshifter” is the most autobiographical song I’ve ever written. When I was a little kid in Wichita Falls, I had a visitor: a tall angel standing over my right shoulder, calm as anything, preparing me for the world. He came back once more in junior high, when I needed him most, and told me I was going to live a fun, beautiful, exciting life. I just had to hold on.

He wasn’t wrong. 🌺

This song is me claiming every version of myself, all the voices inside me at once: “a pretty good kisser, a dyed-in-the-wool anti-establishment drifter,” doing my best to keep my heart from going bitter. That’s why it sits at the center of the album and gives it its name.

🎧 SHAPESHIFTER is out now everywhere. Link in bio.

And come see me live this week! 👇

🍑 THU OCT 15 · 7PM: Opening for BIG FREEDIA at @hawaiitheatre with Haus of Zamora, Honolulu Pride Concert. Code PRIDE15 = 15% off tickets at hawaiitheatre.com

🎨 SUN OCT 18 · 10AM–1PM: Hosting and performing at Community Sunday: Honolulu Pride at @honolulumuseumofart (HoMA)

See you there, loves. 🌈

#sirdanpaul #SHAPESHIFTER #HonoluluPride #BigFreedia #HoMA

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Caught me on @hawaiinewsnow Sunrise this morning talking SHAPESHIFTER… and THIS THURSDAY. 👀🌈

I’m opening for the Queen Diva herself, BIG FREEDIA, at the Hawaii Theatre for the Honolulu Pride Concert, alongside the incredible Haus of Zamora! 🍑🔥
So honored to share the stage with them.

📅 Thursday, Oct 15 · 7PM
📍 @hawaiitheatre
🎟 Use code PRIDE15 for 15% off your tickets at hawaiitheatre.com
Get there on time, because the openers bring it before Freedia brings the bounce.

Mahalo @billyvhawaii and the Sunrise crew for having me! 🌅

Full interview at the link in bio!

all photos credited to @styx_n.stones

#sirdanpaul #SHAPESHIFTER #BigFreedia #HausOfZamora #HonoluluPride

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…in case you were wondering how the SHAPESHIFTER release party went. 👀

Yeah. It was kind of a moment. ✨

Huge thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the release of SHAPESHIFTER with sirdanpaul at Hula’s — to everyone who performed, played, filmed, photographed, cheered, danced, sang along, and helped make the night so ridiculously special.

And thank you, Hula’s, for giving this shapeshifter a stage. 🖤

SHAPESHIFTER is out now wherever you stream music.

#SHAPESHIFTER #sirdanpaul #Hulaswaikiki #albumrelease #TheGatheringPlaceForExplorers

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1 DAY AWAY
Tomorrow SHAPESHIFTER arrives 💚

But tomorrow night at Hula’s, there’s going to be a little something that isn’t on the album.

Yesterday, I rehearsed “Wonderful Mess” with my friend, collaborator, and all-around force of nature Ian Galloway aka Ella Mental—the only duet I’ve ever written. *Brett Lord wrote the lyrics and melody for the part Ian sings here.

This song disappeared for more than a decade. We never played it. I honestly thought it had probably had its moment.
And then somehow, it resurfaced.
So naturally, I had to let her on the roster. 😉

“Wonderful Mess” will make its long-overdue return tomorrow night at the SHAPESHIFTER album release party at Hula’s, alongside the songs from the new record and some very special guest musicians.

Connor Johnson 5–8 PM
SHAPESHIFTER Album Release Party 8 PM
And tomorrow, the album is all yours.
October 1.

Sometimes the joys we thought were finished are just waiting for the right moment to come back.

#sirdanpaul #SHAPESHIFTER #WonderfulMess #AlbumRelease #HulasWaikiki

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FOUR DAYS. 🖤

On Thursday, October 1, sirdanpaul’s SHAPESHIFTER finally makes it to your ear holes. 😬

These images are from the incredible SHAPESHIFTER cover shoot with the ridiculously talented Taylor Cullen aka Styx N Stones — and they’re a little glimpse into the world I’ve been building around this music. Thank you @thereverendravage for interviewing me 🤩

Almost time to celebrate… 🎂

Join me at Hula’s Waikiki for my SHAPESHIFTER Mini Concert + Birthday Celebration:

✨ 7–8 PM — Birthday Party (yes it’s also me legit bday)
💿 8 PM — SHAPESHIFTER Album Release

I’ll be joined by some seriously wonderful humans and performers:

GJ
Nemina Moon
Don Farmer
Waipahu Willie
Ian Galloway

with video visuals by
Joseph Smeraldi.

This album has been a long time coming. These songs became rungs on an escape ladder for me—ways to write my way through transformation, heartbreak, identity, injustice, joy, anger, and ultimately toward a new understanding of myself.

A whole new self, in fact: sirdanpaul.

On Thursday, I get to share it with you.

SHAPESHIFTER drops everywhere October 1st.
And then we celebrate together at Hula’s.

Come for the birthday.
Stay for the shapeshift. 🐍✨

📍 Hula’s Bar & Lei Stand, Waikiki
🗓️ Thursday, October 1
🎂 7–8 PM Birthday Celebration
💿 8 PM SHAPESHIFTER Album Release

Photos: Taylor Cullen / Styx N Stones
@styx_n.stones

#sirdanpaul #SHAPESHIFTER #HonoluluMusic #Waikiki #HulasWaikiki

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✨ LESS THAN ONE WEEK. ✨

On Thursday, October 1, something very special is happening at Hula’s.

sirdanpaul — SHAPESHIFTER officially arrives everywhere you stream music, and we’re celebrating with the Shapeshifter Album Release Party right here at Hula’s. 💿

This album has been a long time coming—a collection of songs born from transformation, self-discovery, heartbreak, humor, anger, love, and finding your way back to yourself.

And now it’s almost time to let it out into the world.

These images by Taylor Cullen (who shot the cover image for SHAPESHIFTER) capture a little of the world of sirdanpaul, set to the Haus of Glitch remix of “Yellow Lights (All I Knew).”

Come experience the next chapter LIVE on October 1.

🎂 Album release + birthday celebration
🎶 Live music
✨ Special guests
🌴 Hula’s Waikiki
💿 SHAPESHIFTER— October 1

sirdanpaul (all lowercase, all one word) — SHAPESHIFTER (all caps)
Thursday, October 1 • 8 PM

The countdown is on.

#sirdanpaul #Shapeshifter #HulasWaikiki #HonoluluMusic #TheGatheringPlaceForExplorers

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7 days. New name, same shapeshifting energy. 🟢 SHAPESHIFTER drops October 1st

photography by @styx_n.stones
design by @thelucasbrand

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