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Ho'okena is a Hawaiian music trio which consist of the members Horace K. Dudoit, Chris Kamaka and Glen Smith. The group was created in 1986 [1] and remains one of the longest lasting Hawaiian music groups. [2] Ho'okena has been nominated for the Grammy Awards three times [3] [4] and has won multiple Na Hoku Hanohano Awards. [5]
Hawaiian Music and Musicians. University Press of Hawaii. pp. 350–360. ISBN 0-8248-0578-X. Indie blog, 2008: "Country music musicians were drawn to Hawaiian music when they first heard the Hawaiian steel guitar at the San Francisco Pan Pacific Exposition in 1915. Soon, artists such as Hoot Gibson and Jimmie Davis were recording with Hawaiians.
Daniel Ho (born March 5, 1968) is an American musician, composer and producer specializing in innovative approaches to slack-key guitar, ukulele, and Hawaiian music.He has recorded 18 solo albums, some of which have won or were nominated for Grammy Awards, and has produced over 50 albums.
The Brothers Cazimero were a Hawaiian musical duo made up of Robert Cazimero on bass and Roland Cazimero on twelve string guitar.Robert also played piano as a solo musician. . The Cazimeros got their start during the Hawaiian Renaissance with ukulele and slack-key guitarist Peter Moon's band, The Sunday Manoa, on their first recording, Guava
Kamae, Pahinui and Marshall drove across the island to hear this young man play. His father was also an accomplished steel guitar player. [3] In the 1940s through the 1950s, traditional Hawaiian music was hard to find. Most music played for the many visitors on the islands was tropical ballads, typically found in Hollywood musicals.
Pahinui began to play the ukulele at the age of 7 and learned how to play guitar from watching his father play with other Hawaiian musicians such as Leland Isaacs Sr. and Sonny Chillingworth. [5] He joined his father's band in the early 1970s, and performed on his father's early recordings for Warner Bros. Records. Cyril and his older brother ...
"Hawaiian music, via sheet music, the new technologies of records and radio, and live travelling performances, was a driving force for the 'Hawaii Craze' that besotted the U.S. during the first half of the 20th century." [12] Motion pictures helped keep the fad going through the 1930s, as did television in the 1950s and 1960s. [16]
Pearly Shells (Pupu A ʻO ʻEwa) is a Hawaiian folk song. The English lyrics were written by Webley Edwards and Leon Pober. Recordings. Burl Ives (1960) ...