NA LANI EHA, Patrons of Hawaiian Music & Culture

Excerpted from the Hawaii Music Hall of Fame & Museum site:

David Kalakaua (1836-1891)

The eldest of the four, David Kalakaua, elected King in 1873, is generally regarded as the catalyst for Hawai`i's cultural resurgence in the last half of the 19th century. Considered a "cultured intellectual of unusual mental powers" by his friend, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kalakaua was gifted in many fields from politics and sports to literature and music. King Kalakaua gave his chief patronage to music, from ancient chant to the waltz, and was actively involved in restoring public performance of the hula. The Merry Monarch Hula Festival, presented annually in Hilo, Hawai`i was named in his honor.

William Leleiohoku (1854-1877)

The youngest of "The Heavenly Four", Prince Leleiohoku was said by his sister, Lili`uokalani to have a talent for composition "really in advance" of the two princesses. He founded the Kawaihao Singing Club and soon he and his colleagues were winning most of the royal song club competitions. Even outside the family, many claimed that he had one of the purest and sweetest male voices among native Hawaiians. Leleiohoku was considered the most talented of the royal composers. Had he not died of rheumatic fever at age 23, his abundant talent promised that his would have been a brilliant musical career.

Lili`uokalani (1838-1917)

Lili`u, as she was known to friends and family, began her formal musical training when she entered the missionary-sponsored Chief's Children's School at age 4. A serious and talented student, Lili`u was able to sight read music at a very early age, according to her autobiography. She was often asked by her teacher to introduce a new song to the class; Lili`u would then sing it by following the notes on the score until the class learned it by ear.

Miriam Likelike (1851-1887).

Unlike her brothers and sister, Princess Likelike was raised in Hilo, Hawai`i. It was after her return to Honolulu as a teenager, that her musical endeavors began in earnest, encouraged by Kalakaua, Lili`uokalani, Leleiohoku, and later by her husband Archibald S. Cleghorn, whom she married in 1870. With her sister, she led one of the three royal music clubs that held regular friendly competitions to outdo each other in song and poetry.

HAWAIIAN PROPHETS AND CHANTERS

Excerpted from the Hawaii Music Hall of Fame & Museum site:

Hawaiian Prophets And Chanters

Chant was the basic form of musical expression prior to the arrival of Europeans to the Hawaiian Islands. The bards and poets of old Hawai`i, not having a written language, composed mele to be committed to memory, narrating the events and history of their time.

Chants of Prophecy

In the old days in Hawai`i, prophetic utterances (Mele Wanana) and hidden sayings ('Olelo Huna) were relied on and the words of the Kaula fully believed in. These chants of prophecy were declarations of the Kaula (prophet) made beforehand of what is to be, which was known by its fulfillment.

The chants foretold future events, declaring the will of the gods. No chief or ruler of a kingdom would disregard the words of the prophets and those possessed by an `aumakua or by the ancestors. Their direction was always right.

The kapu (sacredness) and mana (power) of the mele lie in the text of the chant: its `olelo (words). The importance of words is expressed the proverb

I ka `olelo no ke ola; I ka `olelo no ka make
(In the Word is Life; in the Word is Death)


Excerpted from Hawaii Music Hall of Fame:

2000 Hall of Fame Honorees The Oldest Cherished Kahuna Nui and Prophets Honored

Keaulumoku (1716-1784)

Keaulumoku, the first, and perhaps the oldest known chanter to be inducted into the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame, was born at Naohaku, Kohala, Hawai`i. From his youth he wandered among the hills and vast, desolate lava fields, communing there with the spirits.

Human society seemed very small to him after daily contemplation of the ocean and mountain majesties and the nightly vision of the stars. As the future opened to him, he was always willing to read it for comfort or warning to his people. He was known on all the Islands and it was safe for him to travel anywhere. The only physical description of Keaulumoku is the occasion of his last prophecy, when he was the advanced age of 62. His eyes were bright, but his form was bent and his white hair and beard swept his shoulders. He began his chant with tremulous tones, gaining strength as his voice rose like the wind sweeping through the mountain gorges singing the chant of Haui ka Lani. He foretold the union of the islands under Kamehameha, the extinction of the monarchy, the domination of the white race, the destruction of the temples, the probably extinction of the Hawaiian people.

Ka`opulupulu (Circa 1773)

Around 1773, when Kahahana ruled O`ahu, Ka`opulupulu, a kahuna nui (chanter priest) and prophet advised against making a gift of the lands of Kualoa, O`ahu to the ruler's uncle, Kahekili, Chief of Maui. The prophet said "oh Chief, if you give away these things your authority will be lost, and you will cease to be ruler." Ka`opulupule told the ruler that it would be wrong to cede to another the national emblems of sovereignty and independence. (Had Kahahana obtained the kingdom by conquest, he could do as he liked, but he had been chosen to rule by the O`ahu chiefs.)

The prophet argued "To Kualoa belong the sacred drums of Kapahu`ulu, and the spring of Ka`ahu`ula, the sacred hill of Kauakahi-A-Kaho`owaha. The surrender of the ivory that drifts ashore (Palaoa-pae) would be a disrespect to the gods, relinquishing power to Kahekili.

Kahekili was intent on destroying the prophet's influence, and so declared Ka`opulupulu a traitor. The ruler's argument was that if the prophet was willing to die, the gods would avenge him by bringing death to his murderers, and overthrowing the rule of the chief who had condemned him.

Both Ka`opulupulu and his son agreed to die. The kahuna nui was killed at the edge of the sea at Pu`uloa about 1782, his son at Wai`anae.

It is interesting to note that Ka`opulupulu also prophesied that white men would become rulers, the native population would live landless like fishes of the sea, the line of chiefs would come to an end, and a stubborn generation would succeed them who would cause the native race to dwindle.

Kapoukahi

When Kamehameha the Great could not wrest the rule of the Island of Hawai`i from his cousin, Keoua Ku`ahu`ula, he sent Ha`alo`u, the grandmother of his wife, Ka`ahumanu, to consult Kapoukahi. The priest was living at Kamoku, Waikiki.

Kapoukahi was skilled in reading signs and omens. Ha`alo`u offered the genealogy of her grandmother in exchange for a blessing for Kamehemeha; she asked for the prophet to tell her how Kamehameha could gain rule over all the Islands of Hawai`i.

Kapoukahi told her to have her son-in-law build a great house for his god at Pu`ukohola, and mark out its boundaries. "If he makes this house, he can gain the kingdom without a scratch to his own skin."

The prophecy he is said to have uttered was "war shall cease on Hawai`i when one shall come and shall be laid above on the altar (lele) of Pu`ukohol'a, the House of God." The death of Kamehameha's cousin came in 1791. Keoua Ku`ahu`ula was placed on the altar in the Heiau of Pu`ukohola, and the whole of Hawai`i became Kamehameha's, as predicted by Kapoukahi.

Kapihe

In 1813, shortly after Kamehameha's second son was stillborn, Chief Kaikio`ewa arrived with his prophet, Kapihe (also called Kamaloihi). Kapihe said "the child will not die, he will live."

The baby, Kauikeaouli, was cleaned and laid on a consecrated place. Kapihe took a fan (pe`ahi), fanned the child, prayed and sprinkled Kauikeaouli with water. At the same time, he recited a prayer addressed to Ka`ohohiokala (similar to the Child of God). The baby began to move and make sounds, and soon came to life.

Most interesting of all was Kapihe's prophecy, spoken about three years before Christian missionaries arrived in the Hawaiian Islands with bibles and scriptures:

"The ancient kapu will be overthrown, the heiau and lele altars will be overthrown, and the images will fall down. God will be in the heavens; the Islands will unite, the chiefs will fall, and those of the earth (the lesser people) will rise." Like the prophecy of Ka`opulupulu, it seemed to foretell the coming of foreigners. Strangest of all was the saying about the downfall of the kapu (taboo), for there was no suggestion of this in earlier Hawaiian history.

Hewahewa

The last High Priest under the old religion, Hewahea served as kahuna for both Kamehameha I (The Great), and Liholiho (Kamehameha II). Upon the death of Kamehameha I in 1819, Hewahewa. along with Queen Regent Ka`ahumanu and Keopuolani succeeding in breaking the ancient kapu system.

In 1820, the American missionaries arrived at Kailua (Kona) Hawai`i. Hewahewa expressed "much satisfaction in meeting with a brother priest from America", the Reverend Hiram Bingham. Hewahewa became a devout Christian and composed a prayer which antedated the use of The Lord's Prayer in Hawai`i. In part, it spoke of "Jehovah, a visitor from the skies" thus putting a name to the god whom Kapihe, before him, had predicted as "god will be in the heavens".

History Of Hawaiian Chant

Before 1819, a chanter was a central figure in Hawaiian Society, chosen by birthright and by vocal quality, assessed by an intricate vocabulary of sound patterns unique to Hawaiian chant. Especially significant in pre-contact Hawai`i were chants that recounted the genealogy of an individual, and the Kumulipo, the Creation chant. These chants, passed down and sung from memory, were the only way in which history and mythology could be recorded and taught.

For traditional Hawaiians, chant continues to represent "deep physical and spiritual union in humankind and our relationship to nature." Its sacredness and power lie in the text of the chant, called `olelo.

Today, many chants are more secular in nature; a chanter may be called upon to prepare and sing a mele inoa in praise of an individual bearing a certain name, rather than chanting a genealogy which covers a person's ancestry from the beginning of time. Celebrations of special events and historic meetings are often opened with chanted prayers and greetings.

With the resurgent interest in preserving Hawai`i's culture, the art and skill of Hawaiian chants are once more being learned by Hawaiian schoolchildren; many new mele oli and mele hula are being composed and performed.

Forms of Chant

Chanting was a common form of communication among ka po`e kahiko (the people of old). The chants expressed their thoughts, desires and emotions.

Chant may be performed in one of two different styles: as oli or as hula.

Oli is chant not danced to, with prolonged phrases uttered in a single breath often with a trill (i`i) ending each phrase. Ke oli is the chant and mea oli is the chanter.

• O: to call for a thing desired; to answer to a call
• LI: spirit; that which is spiritual, pertaining to the spirit; the inherent spirit within the soul.

Mele is poem, chant of any kind, or song.

References

Hawaiian Music and Musicians, George S. Kanahele, Editor
An Account of the Polynesian Race, Abraham Fornander
Ruling Chiefs of Hawai`i and Ka Po`e Kahiko, Samuel M. Kamakau
The Echo of our Song, Mary Kawena Pukui & Alfons L. Korn
Kahunas, Master of Black Art, J.S. Emerson (read before the Social Science Ass'n, 1916)

Hawaiian Musicians

1-10

101 STRINGS

Song: Beyond the reef

2 LOCAL BOYZ (SEE 3 LOCAL BOYZ)

3D

- Website of 3D. As individuals David "Kawika" Kahiapo, Del Beazly, and Dwight Kana'e are forces in the tranditional and contemporary Hawaiian music scene. Together they blend seamlessly, leading the listener to believe that they have worked together for many years. Their debut collaboration, In Living Color features Hawaiian standards, new compositions, as well as pop classics such as James Taylor's Fire and Rain and Jim Croce's Time In A Bottle. All songs feature exemplary guitar work, outstanding vocals, and innovative arrangments. We invite you to relax and enjoy the nahenahe sounds of this talented trio.

3 LOCAL BOYS (Broken Link)

Comedy: Now "2 Local Boys".

Song: I'm a Filipino

3RD ROAD DELIGHT

3 SCOOPS OF ALOHA

- Promo - (Mel Amina, Brad Lindsey, Brian Callahan, Ben Mejia, Brian Bascar, Roy Hamada) Woman is Smarter; Sweet Lady of Waiahole...

Song: Sweet Lady of Waiahole

3 PLUS

SEE "THREE PLUS"

4 P.M. (Broken Link)

Song: Sukiyaki (It's all because of you)

45 Dash

"45 Dash" has spent the last three years performing around the state of Hawai`i, developing a loyal fan base. Now, with the release of their debut CD they are ready to take their musical career to the masses -- presenting a blend of island reggae and contemporary Hawaiian sounds.

5:05

Promo - Ben Vegas is 5:05's Lead Vocalist and plays both Electric and Acoustic Guitars. An original member of the Krush, Ben was once signed with United Artists and is now one of Hawaii's most sought after singers and studio musicians. Jonny Kamai is 5:05's Lead Guitarist and other Lead Vocalist (Jonny sings lead on "Thankful"). The newest member of 5:05, Jonny made his name with Jonny & the Dreamers. Blaise Sison plays Bass and also sings Background Vocals in 5:05. A first call studio bass player, Blaise has played with the best bands around Honolulu. Rod Esteban anchors the 5:05 rhythm section on Drums. He has played with Henry Kapono's Same World Band and more recently with the alternative rock band Absolute Fiction. Producer Lester Gantan plays Keyboards and sings Background Vocals in 5:05. Lester has worked with Glenn Medeiros, Smokey Robinson, Graham Nash, Charo, Cecilio & Kapono, Bruddah Waltah,Willy K, Kalapana, and Jon Basebase. SEE BEN VEGAS

96744

- Promo - 96744 (Dennis, Henry, Kainoa, Makena) "Livin' Country": All I have to do is dream; Homely girl

Song: Livin' Country

ACOUSTIC SOUL

(Mike Okouchi, Robb Shibayama) "Chapter One" 2002 -

'AHA PUNANA LEO

Not a group really but a compilation of the voices of teachers and students. A recognized and award winning resource for Hawaiian education. `Aha Punana Leo's first CD features various songs from `Aha Punana Leo curriculum videos -- great for adults and children, Hawaiian lyrics and translations to all songs are included in the liner notes. "`Ina`i" 1999//2001 Na Hoku Hanohano Award: Religious Album Hawaiian Language Performance ~Aunte `Ane Hi`ilani Kanahele and friends lift their voices in song to the heavens. This spiritual CD is a pleasing mix of prayer, Hawaiian language, and harmonious voices in the traditional Ni`ihau vocal style. "He makana heia mau memel mai ke Akua mai", writes Kanahele. "These songs are gifts from the Lord". Hawaiian lyrics (no translations) are included in the liner notes. "Na Himeni Ho`omaika`i I Ke Akua" 1999//2002 Na Hoku Hanohano Award: Religious Album of the Year Native Hawaiian voices resound on this CD, with Ni`ihau hymns sung by the students and teachers of Ke Kula Ni`ihau o Kekaha. Hawaiian lyrics (no translations) to all songs are included. "Na Leo O Ke Kula Ni`ihau O Kekaha" 2000//2002 Na Hoku Hanohano Award: Hawaiian Language Performance This CD is filled with songs from recently released `Aha Punana Leo curriculum videos. It's also a follow-up to the CD `Ina`i. Hawaiian lyrics and translations are included in the liner notes. "`Ina`i `Elua" 2000

AHIA

The Maui Ahia `ohana -- Conrad, Howard and Sam -- present their original compositions on this debut recording by the group. All of the songs were written & arranged by Sam Ahia (with the exception of an outstanding version of Jerry Santos "Ku'u Home O Kahalu'u"). Family members Howard, Conrad & Lisa join in on guitar & vocals. "Ukumehame" 1994

PETER AHIA

- Promo page ... Peter Sings. (1970)

SAM AHIA

DARLENE AHUNA

Promo page ..... announcement of her winning another Hoku award for best single. 1997 Na Hoku Hanohano Winner: Female Vocalist of the Year; 1996 Na Hoku Hanohano Winner: Liner Notes Award - Skylark Rosetti-Ota "Ulana Ke Aloha"

Song: Ke aloha pau'ole oe na'u

DENNIS AH YEK

GARY DUNCAN AIKO

Son of Genoa Keawe - Promo page ... "Mai Poina `Oe Ia`u (Don't Forget Me)".

Song: Medley - Ukulele lady, Honolulu lady, my little chickadee, yaka hula hickey dula

ALAN AKAKA AND THE ISLANDERS

Article

Lessons

President of Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association. "Hawai`i's Golden Treasures" 1996

JANEL AKANA

Song: Don't dream it's over

Song: Butch Starkey & Janel Akana - Ua mau (old man)

KEOLA AKANA

- Promo page ... Hawaiian Soul.

BILL AKAMUHOU

Article

William Akamuhou Dias was born in Nawiliwili, Kauai. In the 1930s he played with Rapoza Bros. in Kauai and then became a regular on Hawaii Calls in 1940. In the navy during the war, he formed a group called the Nautical Hawaiians, who gave a command performance for President Roosevelt at Pearl Harbor in 1944. Later, he performed at Queen's Surf, led the orchestra at the Royal from 1948 to 1953, when he became the highest paid entertainer in Hawaii. and on the radio. He was an accomplished musician, composer, singer, band leader and comic dancer. Among his compositions are 'Sing Hawaii Sing' and 'When Clouds Muffle the Moonbeams.' He was called the 'Hawaiian Scotsman' for his memorable rendition of the Sol K. Bright hit, wearing full Scottish regalia. Biographical material from Tony Todaro, The Golden Years of Hawaiian Entertainment (Tony Todaro Pub., 1974).

Song: Little Brown Gal

DIANA AKI

Promo

Composer: 1990 Na Hoku Hanohano Winner -- Haku Mele Winner: "Mana'o Pili", Diana Aki - Composer, Moments With You, Diane Aki

MATTHEW AKIONA

Article

Maui singer.

AKIONI (MALACAS)

- Promo page ... Da Palapalai Patch. Winner of the Kindy Sproat Falsetto Contest, held annually on the big island of Hawai`i.

Song: Mokuoeo

FAITH THOMPSON AKO

One of Bay area's top noted female artists, Sista Faith. Born and raised on the North Shore of Oahu she has made Northern California her home for over a decade.

ALAKA'I

- Promo page ... James Judd, Stewart Kawakami, Kuhio Yim.

ALA NUI

- Promo page ... (Analu Aina, Mel Amina, Del Beazley, John Cruz, Ernie Cruz, Jr., Kaipo Deguair, Ken Makuakane) SEE INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS "Ala Nui".

ALAPAKI (Al Terry)

Al Terry, aka Alapaki, is one of Maui's most popular performers.

Song: Soft Green Seas

'ALE'A

Promo - 2001 Na Hoku HanohanoAwards: Most Promising New Artist Group of the Year; Island Contemporary Album of the Year; Haku Mele: "Mapu Mau Ke `Ala" composed by Julian Ako (Ryan Gonzales, Kale Hannahs, Kala`i Stern, Chad Takatsugi) "Take Me Home" 2000; Their first CD earned `Ale`a eight Na Hoku Hanohano Awards in 2001 -- and this album has the potential to bring them more awards next year. Liner notes include lyrics. (Ryan Gonzalez, Kale Hannah, Chad Takatsugi) "Origins" 2002 --- Homepage of Ale'a. "Take Me Home", the debut CD by the band 'Ale'a is now in stores. Wayne Harada of the Honolulu Advertiser writes: "'Ale'a, a new foursome whose name means "sweet-voiced." Think Makaha Sons, but younger; think Ho'okena, but more hapa-haole than traditional. Think hot." Kalai Stern, Ryan Gonzalez, Chad Takatsugi, Kale Hannahs.

Song: Hapa haole girl of my dreams

JOHNNY KAMEAALOHA ALEMEIDA

Dean of Hawaiian musicians. Excerpted from HUAPALA: Almeida, John Kameaaloha - the Dean of Hawaiian music was a blind composer, musician, vocalist, entertainer, and teacher. He was born under a bush while his mother was gathering maile in Pauoa Valley. His blindness was attributed to the maile sap. His compositions, at least 300, mostly inspired by women, were songs of love and romance, and enhanced his reputation as a casanova. BORN: Honolulu, Oahu - Nov. 28, 1897 PARENTS: Julia Kamaka & John C. Almeida EDUCATION: 6th grade MARRIED: Elizabeth Nahaku - Sept. 3, 1919 SON: Charleston Puaonaona Excerpted from Hawaii Music Hall of Fame John Kameaaloha Almeida (1897-1985)

A prolific composer of 300 songs, many of them Hawaiian language "standards" today, John K. Almeida was ranked among the top composers of Hawaiian songs. He was regarded as Hawai`i's premier blind musician. His defective eyesight from birth and blindness by age ten were determined to be the result of the poisonous maile bush sap. His mother had no time to cleanse her hands before delivering him, alone, on a Pauoha Valley hillside, where she was gathering fragrant maile for leis on the day he was born.

At age four, Johnny Almeida was already active in church and school choirs and organized his own "Waianae Star Glee Club" at age 15. (This group later became "Johnny Almeida's Hawaiians.") As a vocalist, his falsetto voice has been described as "one of the sweetest and highest". He thrilled audiences with his clear high G and A in such solo favorites as "Wahine U`i" and "Waikapu".

Throughout his long career, he was almost never without a band of his own, and as an instrumentalist had few peers. Considered probably the last of the Hawaiian mandolin players, Johnny Almeida had also mastered `ukulele, guitar, steel guitar, string bass and piano by the time he was 25. From 1922-1927, he was chief musician on Matson Lines ships sailing between Hawai`i and the West Coast, and in the 1930s hosted a popular Hawaiian music half hour on Honolulu's KGU radio.

It was through his radio shows that he was given the title "Dean of Hawaiian Music". He used radio effectively to discover new talent, and was instrumental in launching the careers of singers Bill Lincoln and Genoa Keawe, and steel guitarists Billy Hew Len and David Keli`i. Johnny Almeida also left his mark as a teacher and recording artist for 49th State Records, a company he helped to form.

Today, Johnny Almeida is best remembered for his characteristically Hawaiian melodies. He said his song ideas came to him in dreams at night, or when he was outdoors. The popular "Green Rose Hula", "Green Carnation", "Panini Pua Kea" and "Noho Paipai" were written for hula. Other songs, now standards, are "Maile Swing", "A `Oia" and "Ku`uipo Pua Rose". He wrote many songs about flowers (for he loved beauty and beautiful women).

PUA ALEMEIDA

Son of Johnny Alameida. -- Excerpted from Hapa-haole songs: Charleston Puaonaona Almeida was born in Honolulu into what would become one of Hawaii's great musical families. Under the guidance of his father John, Pua became a virtuoso steel guitarist, composer, arranger, singer, band leader and consumate musician. He played all the local clubs before the war--Pago Pago, Ramona Cafe, then USO shows with Buddy Peterson and Randy Oness, and work on radio station KGMB. After 1945, he performed at the Moana Banyan Court for a dozen years with his group The Sunset Serenaders, and performed on Hawaii Calls for 17 years.

Pua, like Alfred Apaka, had a bad heart, and passed away in 1974, one of the mostly unsung greats of Hawaiian music in the 20th century. His generosity and humility as a performer, friend and mentor led many others on to greatness. Fortunately, many of his hundreds of recordings live on.

Biographical material from Tony Todaro, The Golden Years of Hawaiian Entertainment (Tony Todaro Pub., 1974).

ALI'IS

- Promo page ... 1982 Na Hoku Hanohano Winner: Single of the Year - "You Are the Best of My Life" b/w "Feelings" Contemporary Album of the Year THE ALII'S "The Alii's" 1981 ... SMOOTH SOUNDS...

Song: Maka Hilahila

ALI'I MANU

"He Makana O Aloha ~ A Gift of Love" 2001; "For A Peaceful World ~ No Ka Honua Maluhia" 2001

ALIKA (SIMPSON)

WILLIAM "BABA" ALIMOOT

- Promo page ... William "Baba" Alimoot has been singing and playing Hawaiian music for over twenty years now. From Waikiki showrooms, to Disneyworld in Florida; from concert halls in Japan, to backyards across Hawai`i. Baba has been sharing his love of Hawaiian music all over the world. With this debut CD, Baba is finally able to showcase all of talents -- singing, arranging, and playing guitar, bass and `ukulele. ...

ELBERT "EDDIE" ALKIRE

Steel Guitarist. 1983 Inductee into HSGA Hall of Fame.

ALLEGRO CHAMBER MUSIC OF HAWAII

HENRY KALEIALOHA ALLEN

Henry Allen is one of Maui's premier steel guitar players. Promo page.. "The Magic of Steel Guitar" (1994); "Blue Hawai`i" (1995); "Memories of Hawai`i - Series One" -- Steel Guitar to da max....

KEAHI ALLEN

"Na Kumu Hula: Songs From the Source Volume II" by various artists (State Council on Hawaiian Heritage) Winner: Compilation (producer's award): Keahi Allen -- The State Council on Hawaiian Heritage helps perpetuate Hawaiian as a living language and preserve what remains of pre-contact culture. Some of the kumu hula here present pure chant and percussion. Others use instruments and musical traditions of European origin including modern synthetic effects.

ALOHA

With every movement there is a prominent female figure in the front lines. As Sade is to world music, Lauryn Hill is to urban soul, and Selena is to Tejano, Aloha is to Island music. Her smooth sensual voice has the capacity to generate a major impression on the world stage. Aloha’s debut album entitled “Take Me Home”, displays her versatility as a singer/ songwriter, at the same time reflecting her warm and loving persona.

ALOHA ISLANDERS (Broken Link)

Utah based. Bill Keoniana Kelly - Ned Aikau - Kimo Po ai - Ben Namahoe - Danny Baclayon - Bruce Meyers - Keawe Enos - David Kekuaokalani - Peter Hanohano - Ezekial Kamai - Gayle Mori Andrews

ALOHA FRIDAY BAND

Promo page.. "Aloha Friday, No Work Till Monday (single)" 1996

Song: Kimo Kahoano & Paul Natto - Aloha Friday no work till Monday

ALOHA PLENTY (Doug & Sandy McMaster)

Hanalei Sunset

- Doug & Sandy McMaster. Smooth slack key guitar. From Kahalui.

Song: Hanalei Sunset

ALOHA PUMEHANA SERENADERS

Promo page.. Featuring the amazing falsetto of the late Darrell Lupenui, this album of treasured hula songs is a joy to see again, now exquisitely remastered into CD format. (1976) (Darrell Lupenui, Wendell Silva, Lanakila Manini, Ainsley Halemanu)

ALFRED UNAUNA 'ALOHIKEA

Extracted from HUAPALA: Alohikea, Alfred Unauna - the composer laureate of Kauai was described as one of the best entertainers of his time. A self-taught musician, who could neither read nor write music, he played ukulele, guitar, bass, and saxophone, but is best remembered as a singer, a rich and powerful baritone. BORN: Waipi`o, Hawaii - Sept. 10, 1884 DIED: Sept. 15, 1936 PARENTS: Lucy Koi`i & William E. Alohikea MARRIED: Elizabeth Kahau, Alice Namilionalani Keanini - 1921 CHILDREN: Lulu, Moses

IRMGARD FARDEN ALULI: Music Catalog

Promo page -- One of the grand ladies of Hawaiian music...and Auntie's still performing!!! 1999 Na Hoku Hanohano Winner: Anthology Album of the Year Auntie Irmgard Keali`iwahinealohaNohokahaoPuamana Farden `Aluli is rooted deeply in Pu`unoa, Mala, Lahaina (Maui) where she was born on October 7, 1911. The ninth child of thirteen, her roots extended as she grew and took a firm hold in family life, music, education and religion. She is now our last link to the great Hawaiian music composers who have passed on: Mary Kawena Puku`i, Johnny Almeida, Alice Namakelua, Charles E. King, and so on. (Liner notes contain lyrics and translations) AUNTIE IRMGARD & PUAMANA (Irmgard `Aluli, Luana McKenney, `A`ima McManus, Mihana Souza)

Excerpted from Hawaii Music Hall of Fame 1998 Hall of Fame Honoree Irmgard Farden Aluli (1911- 2001)

The most prolific female Hawaiian composer since Queen Lili`uokalani, Irmgard Aluli has written over 200 songs. She is still counting, as she never bothered to keep a record of her output. She wrote her first composition, "Down on Maunakea Street", in 1935.

Irmgard's first hit song, "Puamana", was composed in 1937. Homesick for her Farden family home, Puamana, in Lahaina, Maui, she composed her song while serving in Moloka`i as a field agent for the University of Hawai`i Agricultural Extension Service. In time, it became the name of her well-known family quartet, formed in the 1970s. Irmgard, her daughters Mihana and Aima and her neice Luana have performed from California to New York, and remain "on call" for major celebrations and public concerts in Hawai`i. One of ten children, Irmgard was raised in an environment of music. Her parents, sisters, brothers and numerous relatives were all gifted with musical talent. Long before she began composing tunes and writing lyrics, Irmgard was singing in family music sessions, at school, and in church choirs. It was through these activities she developed her strong alto voice, and learned to play `ukulele, bass, guitar and piano. She credits her ability to "feel harmony" as a result of many hours improvising harmonies with her brothers and sisters to sheet music brought home from school.

Many have ranked Irmgard's "E maliu Mai" as her best song. She wrote it in the 1950's as an alternative to Charles E. King's "Ke Kali Nei Au" which she felt was worn from use. The romantic feeling of King's classic is retained in Irmgard's simple short version by use of the echo effect of a love call. Other memorable standards are "Lapahoehoe Hula" (Boy from Lapahoehoe), for which Irmgard composed the music, and Kawena Pukui wrote the lyrics. "Baby Kalai" was written in 1943 for the Baby Lu`au of the first Aluli grandchild born into her husband's family. Both songs are still being performed and recorded.

"Auntie Irmgard" as she is called today, also composed many songs touching on a spiritual theme. Her children's songs have distinguished her in the small group of Island composers, mostly women, who have written Hawaiian songs for children. Noted Hawaiian music teacher and arranger, Dorothy Gillette, has said of Irmgard "(she) has created melodies that are singable and memorable." A recipient of many honors and awards for her "simple, distinctively Hawaiian" compositions, and her contributions to the music education of Hawai`i's children, Irmgard Aluli is a Living Treasure of Hawaiian music.

MEL AMINA

Promo page.. "Ku Ha`aheo Kakou, E Na Hawai`i" 1995 SEE 3 SCOOPS OF ALOHA AND ALA NUI

R. ALEX ANDERSON

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1998 Hawaii Music Hall of Fame Inductee

The Composer who Charmed Hawai`i and the World

Very few Hawaiian composers can claim as many "popular standards" translated into as many different languages as R. Alex Anderson. If you hear a familiar Hawaiian tune with English words chances are very good that Robert Alexander Anderson is the composer. In fact, during the Christmas holiday just past, you were probably among the thousands around the world who sang "Mele Kalikimaka" at least once.

R. Alex Anderson was born in Honolulu in 1894, and from high school on to his passing in 1995, composed nearly 200 songs. He was considered the "most Hawaiian" of the hapa haole composers. No Island composer had a longer career writing English lyric songs.

"Andy", as he was called by close friends, or "Alex" by those who simply felt close to him because of his music, wrote songs based on traditional Hawaiian themes telling of flowers, scenes, islands, seas, people, events and customs. His ear for the Hawaiian music's special sound and rhythm was exceptional, and he was regarded as a successor to Charles E. King in maintaining the melodic and lyrical qualities which are Hawai`i's musical identity

A prominent businessman by vocation, and a WWI veteran, Alex Anderson had no formal music training and spoke no Hawaiian, yet his compositions still give rise to dreams of Hawai`i as "paradise" for people all over the world. He called himself "a composer who writes without knowing the rules", and "wrote" most his lyrics "in my head". In addition to being a natural composer, he was also an original one who never consciously borrowed a tune.

His first composition, "Haole Hula", written in 1927, was a hit, and remained his personal favorite. Among the most familiar of his compositions are "Lovely Hula Hands", "Lei of Stars", "Coconut Island". He wrote "Cockeyed Mayor of Kaunakakai", in the 1930's for a party to fete movie star Warner Baxter. "White Ginger Blossoms" was written at the suggestion of film star Mary Pickford, and "I Will Remember You", while a student at Cornell University, homesick for his Island home. His most famous song, "Mele Kalikimaka", Hawai`i's Christmas song, went around the world on the back of Bing Crosby's recording of "White Christmas". Crosby, Andy Anderson's frequent visitor and golf partner, liked the tune so much when Andy played it for him that he surprised Anderson with the recording.

According to Pam Anderson, his daughter, the family still receives revenues every year from such favorites as "Mele Kalikimaka" and "Lovely Hula Hands" from all over the world: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Great Britain, Greece, Japan, Ireland.

Perhaps the best description of R. Alex Anderson's love for making music and for his homeland is found in two lines from "Haole Hula": "I love to dance and sing of the charms of Hawai`i, and from a joyful heart bring aloha to you." On this theme, R. Alex Anderson's life is described and photographed in a new book by Scott Stone, "From a Joyful Heart" due to be released (hopefully this year) by Island Heritage. Planned to be included with the book is a CD of twelve of R. Alex Anderson's best known songs ­ (again, hopefully) as sung and recorded by Andy himself, who had a fine voice and through his lifetime sang with quartets and groups around Honolulu.

R. Alex Anderson was inducted into the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame in 1998. His biography and photos are found in the 1998 Hall of Fame koa-framed exhibit located in the Lawrence Newbold Brown room at Bishop Museum. VINCENT ANDRADA

ANELA (KAHIAMOE)

ANELAIKALANI (Brittney `Ânelaikalani Jennings)

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13-year-old falsetto singer who recently released her first album in 2000.

Song: Fireman's Hula

ANIVAS

Promo page.. Miriam Sam Samuelu is the beautiful voice featured on this debut release from Anivas. Singing the lead vocals and playing the keyboards, she presents the beautiful music of Samoa.

ANO

(Haku, Ikaika & Kamuela Kaho`ano)

DESMON ANTONE & BAMBU

Promo - Des & Bambu are performers at the Maui Marriott in Ka'anapali. it's evident that they've been playing together awahile, because their harmonies are tight and their instruments don't overpower each other.

ANUHEA (Broken Link)

Hawaiian backyard style.

Song: Palolo

ANUENUE

Promo -- From Lahaina, Maui comes the duo -- "Anuenue" -- with some special guests, too. An all-instrumental...heavily influenced by the great old recordings of Martin Denny, Jerry Byrd, Arthur Lyman and that whole 1950's exotica-lounge crowd. Perfect background music for your next gathering! (Chet McCracken, Chris Pinnick) "North Shore Dream" 1997

ALFRED 'AHOLO APAKA

Promo page - Alfred Apaka the Golden Voice of Hawaii... a legend whose gone but not forgotten. 1999 Na Hoku Hanohano Winner: Liner Notes - Harry B. Soria, Jr. These are the "lost" recordings of Hawaii's golden voice -- Alfred Aholo Apaka -- recorded in Hawai`i between 1945 and 1949. His voice expressed the romance and enchantment of Hawai`i as no one else ever has. This album contains the songs that led up to the world discovering this handsome Hawaiian with the golden baritone. He possessed a voice that could range from B flat to E with incredible agility -- a consummate ballader who must be credited as a major factor in the popularization of Hawaiian music for two decades. These are the recordings that started it all. Liner notes give a rich history of the musician and the music -- no lyrics, however.

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