Tag Archives: Oceanic Traditions

Gabby Pahinui helped to lay down the building blocks for Hawaiian slack essential guitar playing. Although he documented only 1 internationally released record, Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Music group, Vol. 1, his impact is still shown in the playing of Hawaiian slack essential players and American guitarists including John Fahey, Leo …

Don Ho employed his abilities being a middle-of-the-road pop vocalist and music ambassador for Hawaii to start a mainland profession that included six chart albums, many television performances, and engagements in top venues beginning in the mid-’60s. He was created in Kakaako, a little community in Honolulu for the isle …

Through the 1930s, the London-based Serenaders liked immense popularity by cashing in for the vogue for Hawaiian music. The group provided up an attractive mixture of traditional Isle music, jazz, and well-known songs.

A master from the slack important acoustic guitar, Ledward Kaapana continues to be among Hawaii’s most important musicians for many years. A founding person in Hui ‘Ohana, an organization he created in the first ’70s along with his twin sibling, Nedward, and a cousin, Dennis Pavao, Kaapana was instrumental in …

Multi-instrumentalist, historian, and educator Bob Brozman was created in NY about March 8, 1954. His uncle, Barney Josephson, was a prominent golf club owner who went Cafe Culture in Greenwich Town, among the 1st places in NY, or anywhere, where dark and white music artists played on-stage collectively. Brozman researched …

Only if one singer could possibly be selected as the utmost identifiable with ’80s arena rock and roll, it would need to be Journey’s Steve Perry. Given birth to Stephen Ray Perry in Hanford, CA, on January 22, 1949 (to Portuguese parents), Perry grew up in another California city, Lemoore, …

As their name suggests, the Sons of Hawaii have an enthusiastic sense of heritage. Using traditional Hawiian noises and rhythms, they perform primary material which has had a significant effect on the revival from the Hawaiian grass-roots musical picture.

Vocalist/guitarist Allan Thomas focuses on relaxing acoustic-based pop music, which would serve because the best soundtrack on the breezy Hawaiian seaside in sundown. Thomas’ like of music created in early stages, as he became a member of an a cappella vocal group at age 12 in his hometown of NEW …

Alfred Aloha Apaka (1919 — 1960) was among the important performers in the annals of Hawaii’s well-known music. Although he documented for under ten years, Apaka arranged the requirements for contemporary Hawaiian music along with his joyful, baritone vocals and extremely entertaining shows. In his publication, Hawaiian Music and Music …

Veterans from the isle music picture, Hawaii’s Ho’okena formed in 1986. Featuring people Manu Boyd, Horace K. Dudoit III, Chris Kamaka, and Glen H.K. Smith, the group has its record label, Ho‘omau Inc., and it has won many Nā Hōkū Hanohano honours through the Hawai‘we Academy of Documenting Arts (HARA). …