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Makana began singing when he was seven years old, took up 'ukulele at nine and began learning the indigenous art of slack key guitar at eleven. A protégé of slack key guitar legends, including Bobby Moderow Jr. and the late master Uncle Sonny Chillingworth, [10] Makana has dedicated his life to perpetuating as well as evolving the traditional ...
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Makana is a mountain on the island of Kauaʻi. Makana may also refer to: Makana (musician), an American slack-key guitar player and singer; Makana (prophet) (died 1819), a Xhosa warrior and prophet; Makana F.A., a sporting body formed by political prisoners on Robben Island, South Africa
The Script co-founder and guitarist died on 14 April after a brief illness aged 46. Sheehan and lead vocalist Danny O’Donoghue were childhood best friends while growing up in Dublin, and they ...
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, which has been used for centuries, involves altering the standard tuning on a guitar from E-A-D-G-B-E, so that strumming across the open strings will then sound a ...
She performed at the Isle of Wight festival in 1970 and returned for a 2010 appearance along with her guitarist son, Beau Jarred Schekeryk. Melanie also played Glastonbury in 1971. Her husband ...
John Sykes, the electrifying guitarist who rocked the world in legendary bands Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy, has died. He was 65. The rocker’s death was confirmed by both bands on social media ...
Raymond Kaleoalohapoinaʻoleohelemanu [a] Kāne [1] (/ ˈ k ɑː n eɪ /, Hawaiian:; 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 a fisherman.