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Kalani Peʻa. Kalani Peʻa (born April 13, 1983) is a three-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter of Hawaiian music. [1] He released his first album, E Walea, in 2016, which won the 2017 Grammy award for Best Regional Roots Music Album. [2] Peʻa released his second album, No 'Ane'i, in 2018, which won the Grammy Award for Best Regional ...
Israel Kamakawiwoʻole. Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole[a] (May 20, 1959 – June 26, 1997), also called Braddah IZ or just simply IZ, was a Native Hawaiian musician and singer. He achieved commercial success and popularity outside of Hawaii with his 1993 studio album, Facing Future. His medley of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful ...
Pukui was born on April 20, 1895, in her grandmother's home, named Hale Ola, in Haniumalu, Kaʻu, on Hawaiʻi Island, to Henry Nathaniel Wiggin (originally from Salem, Massachusetts, of a distinguished shipping family descended from Massachusetts Bay Colony governor Simon Bradstreet and his wife, the poet Anne Bradstreet) [6] and Mary Paʻahana Kanakaʻole, descendant of a long line of kahuna ...
Amy Hānaialiʻi Gilliom is an American vocalist and songwriter. Hanaialiʻi is a six-time Grammy Award Nominee. [1][2][3] She is best known for reinvigorating the Hawaiian tradition of female falsetto singing. Her album Generation Hawaii won four Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards in 2007 for Album of the Year, Hawaiian Album of the Year, Female ...
Vocalist. Instrument. Ukulele. Lena Machado (October 16, 1903 – January 23, 1974) [1] was a Native Hawaiian singer, composer, and ukulele player, known as "Hawaii's Songbird". She was among the first group of musical artists honored by the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame in 1995. Noted for her use of the Hawaiian vocal technique of "ha'i," which ...
Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame. Coordinates: 21°16′46″N157°49′51″W21.2795°N 157.8308°W. Hawaii Ponoi by Kalakaua and Henri Berger. The Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame is an organization dedicated to recognizing the cultural importance of the music of Hawaii and hula. Established in 1994, the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame promotes the ...
Solomon Hoʻopiʻi Kaʻaiʻai (/ ˌhoʊoʊˈpiːi / hoh-oh-PEE-ee Hawaiian pronunciation: [ˌhoʔoˈpiʔi]; 1902 – November 16, 1953) was a Native Hawaiian lap steel guitarist. A virtuoso, he was one of the most famous original Hawaiian steel guitarists, along with Joseph Kekuku, Frank Ferera, Sam Ku West and "King" Bennie Nawahi.
Genoa Keawe. ' Aunty' Genoa Leilani Adolpho Keawe-Aiko (October 31, 1918 – February 25, 2008) was a Hawaiian musician. [1] Keawe was born on the island of Oʻahu in the Kakaʻako district of Honolulu and grew up in Lā'ie. [2] She was an icon in Hawaiian music and a mainstay on the Hawaiian music scene for more than 60 years.