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WAILUKU – As a nominee for Na Hoku Hanohano award, Ata Damasco can't help but dream about hearing his name called when the winner for best religious album gets announced Tuesday night in Honolulu.

He's got an acceptance speech prepared, and his family members will be in the crowd with their fingers crossed.

Everything seems perfect except for one thing: Damasco won't be there.

He's still in jail.

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"All this goes way beyond stealing," says Damasco, 28, from a visitors room in one of the cellblocks at Maui Community Correctional Center, where the only glimpse of the sky contains a view of the razor wire wrapped around the top of the fence.

"I believe God arranged for me to sit in here with my peers and think things out. You have to ho'oponopono - you have to make right with yourself."

Blessed with the voice of an angel and a gift to make music out of almost anything he touches, Arthur K.

Damasco - Ata to everyone - seemed to be headed for a Ho'opi'i Brothers kind of