Maleko

Maleko is a radio announcer on Hot 93.9, KIKI-FM- Honolulu, Hawaii. Maleko hosts the Morning Drive show from 5:30am-10am weekdays. Previously, Maleko hosted the Afternoon Drive show "Maleko's Room" on Star 101.9, KUCD-FM from March, 2000 - April 28, 2009. Both stations are owned by Clear Channel Communications.
Biography
Maleko is part of a family legacy of music and entertainment. The younger middle child of four brothers in the music industry (Keoki, Kekoa, Miko), Maleko stands out as the emcee in a family of Disc Jockeys. The family patriarch insisted on both vocal and piano training for each of them while growing up in Kailua, HI. Maleko took eight years of piano lessons, and spent four years performing as a soloist and soprano/alto in the Honolulu Boy Choir. He Lived in Kailua as a teenager while attending St. Louis High School. His oldest brother Keoki moved to New York and made a name for himself, inspiring Maleko to work harder and do the same. Maleko chose to do it a little closer to home.
Maleko began his radio career hosting Afternoon Drive at KDLX, a modern rock alternative station in Maryville, MO in 1994. While there, he crossed the boundaries of cablecast radio by ordering, assembling and powering up a small watt transmitter to rebroadcast the college station's signal. The result was as expected. People enjoyed the station in their cars for the first time ever... for about two weeks, when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) promptly removed the transmitter equipment from the rented attic space in which it was hidden. Thereafter he explored talk radio, hosting a "Love Lines" like sex-talk radio and television show with the moniker "Victor Simmons." The show was a cult success, and provided a much needed enema in rural Missouri. Earning his way through college, Maleko was a DJ and emcee at various bars and nightclubs, including largest nightclub, America's Pub, entertaining thousands of Westport, Missouri Partiers every weekend.
After college, Maleko moved to Los Angeles to manage the Gila Monster Music Factory, a recording studio in Hollywood, CA owned by Keoki. There, he worked with artists from the rap, rock, and electronic music scene, including Daniel Ash (Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets), Gearwhore (Astralwerks) and others. After a little more than a year, Maleko decided it was time to return to the islands, when he heard about the birth of a new radio station.
Star 101.9 signed on the air in the late 1990s, and Maleko joined the team as the Promotions Director. For several years, he planned the stations biggest parties, and coolest night club events. A slot opened up doing the night shift on Star. From there, he moved up to Afternoons until he left after 10 years at the station to host the Morning show on HOT 93.9 KIKI-FM.
Hot 93.9 formerly I-94, KIKI-FM plays Hip-Hop and RnB Hits in Honolulu, where Maleko led a team of 3 on the Hot in the Morning Show. Where he was partnered with Flash Hansen Club 301 Podcast and Meeshy Meesh Hot 93.9 Traffic.
In September of 2010, Hot 93.9 signed off the air, to make way for . At that time the station went completely "jockless" and Maleko went back to do Afternoons on the station that still held his heart and passion from the beginning - Star 101.9. Maleko currently hosts the Afternoon Drive weekdays on KUCD-FM, Star 101.9.
Maleko was also the program director for Radio Free Hawaii 101.9-HD2, Hawaii's first Hybrid Digital radio station. Maleko regularly hosts weekly nightclubs, live music events, charity fundraisers, auctions and conventions. He has conducted auctions, pageant contests, game shows, celebrity interviews, and talent competitions. On stage, Maleko is the primary emcee and host for major rock and Hip-Hop concerts in Hawaii, including recent performances by All American Rejects, My Chemical Romance, Evanescence, and Pepper plus Bay fest and Surf fest from 2002 to the present. On screen, Maleko has appeared in television commercials and television dramas and made several guest appearances as a celebrity judge and commentator for local talent programs and television shows.

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