Born ten days after Pearl Harbor, during Honolulu's dramatic blackouts, native Hawaiian Clement John Ahia grew up surfing the island waves, climbing the mountain pali, and playing ukulele at family gatherings.

The 1960's found him far from home, in California, playing the fretless bass to his older brother's guitar. Their band played across the U.S. from LA to Las Vegas, San Diego to Seattle, Bay Area to Boston, Chicago and back home in Hawaii.

Listening to his brother Sam and other great musicians like Wes Montgomery, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Pat Martino, Clem desired to play guitar as well as bass, and taught himself. He loves the improvisational creativity of live jazz. He also sings a mean standard with his natural phrasing, and amazes his fellow musicians by the number of tunes at his command - swing, beebop, Broadway, pop, rock & roll, Latin and Brazillian jazz, and always keeping a special aloha in his heart for Hawaiian music, both traditional and contemporary.

Clem plays two guitars to produce his unique sound. The GB Ibanez creates the upfront jazz sound in the solos, while the Taylor Acoustic/Electric provides a full bodied sound for accompaniment. On his albums, he also adds his own innovative bass lines.

Movie and television credits include musical performances in House Arrest, Melvin and Howard, "Winds of War", "Three On a Date", "Aloha Paradise" with Debbie Reynolds. Besides arranging and recording his own CDs, he's played session music backing other musicians' and singers' recordings.

Clem continues to hone his craft by writing new songs and by providing live entertainment in clubs, restaurants, private parties, and cruise ships in Southern California, the Bay Area and Hawaii.