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Eric Lee is a Hawaiian musician, singer, songwriter, and producer.His work has appeared on more than 30 albums, including his work with The Kanile'a Collection, Nā Kama, The Ka'ala Boys, The Mākaha Sons, and his solo albums, Crossroads, Kawehilani, and his Twentieth Anniversary Anthology.
"Hawaii Five-O Theme" is an instrumental composed by Morton Stevens as the theme music for the CBS television series Hawaii Five-O, [1] which aired from 1968 to 1980. It is considered by many to be one of the best television themes of all time.
In 2008, his first all-original release “Different Game” came out and in 2009 he released a 20th anniversary slack key guitar instrumental compilation, “Venus, and the Sky Turns to Clay”. His latest album Ripe was released in 2013 and funded by fans through the online crowd sourcing platform Kickstarter . [ 13 ]
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 become part of ...
Jake Shimabukuro (born November 3, 1976) is a ukulele virtuoso and composer from Hawaii [a] known for his fast and complex finger work. [2] His music combines elements of jazz, blues, funk, rock, bluegrass, classical, folk, and flamenco. [3]
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.
Brittni Kahealani Paiva was born on September 28, 1988, and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, and is of Portuguese, Danish, Japanese and Hawaiian descent. [3] [4] [5] She was homeschooled through high school before attending Berklee College of Music. [6] She is a classically-trained pianist and began taking lessons when she was four years old.
Sol Ho'opi'i (pronounced Ho-OH-pee-EE) was perhaps the most famous Hawaiian musician whose work spread the sound of instrumental lap steel play worldwide. [7] He was the first steel guitarist to combine Hawaiian music with American jazz. [2]: 12 Born in Honolulu in 1902, Hoopii was a gifted talent on lap steel from an early age.