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Released. 2010. (2010) Genre. Slack-key guitar. Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar is an album released in 2010. It won a Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album. [1] It reached number fifteen on the Billboard Top World Music Albums chart. It featured Owana Salazar.
Musician. Instrument. Slack-key guitar. Raymond Kaleoalohapoinaʻoleohelemanu[a] Kāne[1] (/ ˈkɑːneɪ /, Hawaiian: [ˈkaːne]; October 2, 1925 - February 27, 2008), [2] was one of Hawaii 's acknowledged masters of the slack-key guitar. Born in Koloa, Kauaʻi, he grew up in Nanakuli on Oʻahu 's Waiʻanae Coast where his stepfather worked as ...
Slack key guitarist, recording artist, music composer. Dennis David Kahekilimamaoikalanikeha Kamakahi (March 31, 1953 – April 28, 2014) was a Hawaiian slack key guitarist, recording artist, music composer, and Christian minister. [1] He was a three-time Grammy Award winner, and in 2009 he was inducted into the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame.
Slack-key guitar. Hawaiian slack-key guitarist Cyril Pahinui in Waikiki, 2012. Slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōʻalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii. This style of guitar playing involves altering the standard tuning on a guitar from E-A-D-G-B-E, which has been used ...
ledkaapana.com. Ledward Kaapana (born August 25, 1948) is a Hawaiian musician, best known for playing in the slack key guitar style. In 2011, he received a National Heritage Fellowship, the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. [1] He also plays steel guitar, ukulele, autoharp, and bass guitar, and is a ...
His debut album “Makana” was released in 1999; it won the Best World Music Album Award at the Hawaii Music Awards. It was followed by “Koi Au” in 2002 (“A landmark musical statement” – Star Bulletin) and “Ki Ho’alu: Journey of Hawaiian Slack Key” in 2003. Soon thereafter Makana contributed to the Grammy-nominated albums ...
Ozzie Kotani is a slack-key guitar player and a well-respected teacher, arranger, solo performer and accompanist. [1] Kotani was born in 1956 in Honolulu, Hawaii in the neighborhood of Pauoa. He learned how to play the 'ukulele in fourth grade, but his interest in kī hō‘alu, or Hawaiian slack key guitar, was sparked in high school when he ...
Leonard Kwan. Leonard Keala Kwan Sr (1931–2000) was one of the most influential Hawaiian slack-key guitarists to emerge in the period immediately preceding the Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance of the 1970s. He made the first LP of slack key instrumentals, co-wrote the second slack key instruction book, and composed a number of pieces that have ...
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