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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 ...
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 ...
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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; Makana Local Municipality, a local authority in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa
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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 ...