~ Kam ~

Kama, Jr., Harold  
"H-Dawg!"

Photo

[kah' mah, means "the child / person"]

"One  night, we stopped in for a Hawaiian music  nightcap, literally stumbling upon Harold, who just happened to be playing at the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel.  The moments he sang his original composition, "Sweet Lei" to me, in person, will be among the sweetest in my life." ~ Aunty D, a.k.a. sweetlei

Hawai`i

(Hilo)

Calendar

Cronies:
Fri:
9:30 p - 1 a

Charlie's Bar & Grill
(Keaau)

hdog@gte.net

Contacts:

Olinda Road
Distribution

artistinfo@
olindaroad.com
710-B Kakoi St
Honolulu HI
96819
808.837.7800

Birds of Paradise Recording Co.
PO Box 6053
Kaneohe HI 96744
808.239.5867
Fax: 808.239.4137
bopr@lava.net

NN: Web Site w/ "Keali`i" & "Stars & Moon Slack Key"  full tracks

2000 AC: "Island Roots 2" (VA): w/ Harold's "Fire"
- QS: w/ "Fire" clip
- HA Review

99 AC: "Cronies"
-  99 NN: "Cronies" w/ "Oh My Tears" clip
- OR News Release
- SB Review" w/ clips

Sea West Studios photo

96 AC: "Harold Kama, Jr.", w/ "Sweet Island Woman", "Keali'i", "Keaukaha", "Hilo Town", "Stars and Moon Slack Key" clips and editorial review
- NN: CD Info & Biography
- SB Review: Uncommonly good

Akaku (Video Short)

(VIDEO) Out-of-print: "A Night Before Christmas"

Kamae, Eddie

[kah mae' means "the fading"]

(Edward Leilani Kamae)

0`ahu

Contact:

Winnie Kurokawa
Music Craft Dist.
296 Mokauea
Honolulu HI
96819

PO Box 2839
Honolulu HI
96803

808.841.6219

Sons of Hawai`i Catalog

Bruddah BU: Great `Ukulele Players
Bruddah BU's SoH Retrospective

2000 (VIDEO): "Sons of Hawai`i"
NEW
- ‘Sons of Hawaii’ an epic masterpiece
- Y: Most noteworthy of Hawaiian filmmakers

DC: Eddie & George

98 SB: Hawaiian Voices

98 MT: Scroll down to EK

98: On Luther Makekau
97 SB: Robin Hood

Re-release 98, 71 AC: "Sons of Hawai`i" w/ "No Ke Ano Ahiahi," "Kanaka Waiwai," "Hanohano Hawai`i" clips, editorial and customer reviews
- 98 SB Review

97 SB: Living Treasure

12/96 SB Review: "Christmas Time with Eddie Kamae & The Sons of Hawaii"

92: NHH Lifetime Achievement Award

H: "E Ku`u Morning Dew" w/ photo
92 hm: NHH Anthology Album Award
- "The Best of the Sons of Hawai`i&"
80 hm: NHH Hawaiian Song Award

HS: Collaborator with Mary Kawena Pukui

Also listed under:
Kamae, Eddie & Myrna
Sons of Hawai`i, The

Videographers, documentarists, husband and wife team

"Each video is a sparkling gem, richly capturing our past. Hawaiian voices, language, music and wisdom lovingly preserved for perpetuity. The generations to come will owe much to this admirable couple." ~Aunty D

The Asian / Pacific Foundation of Hawai`i
PO Box 8230
Honolulu HI 96830-0230

Buy or borrow these videos from your library (if they don't have them, ask them  to order them).  They are priceless, serving as family heirlooms of Hawaiian heritage and pride... " ~Aunty D

VIDEO Documentaries: Hawaiian Legacy Series:

98: (VIDEO) ""Hawaiian Voices, Bridging Past to Present" w/ Ruth Makaila Kaholoa'a, 93;  Lilia Wahinemaika'i "Mama" Hale, 85; The Rev. David "Kâwika" Ka'alakea
- SB: Hawaiian Voices
- Honolulu Int'l Film Festival

97: (VIDEO) "Luther Kahekili Makekau: One Kine Hawaiian Man" by Eddie & Myrna Kamae
- SW: The Cowboy Way
- 97 SB: Remembering 'Robin Hood'

95: "Words, Earth & Aloha"

93: "The Hawaiian Way"

91: "Listen to the Forest"

83: "Sam Li`a Kalanaina: The Legacy of a Hawaiian Man"

Kamahele, Craig

.

.

98 SB Review: "The Best of Ka`au Crater Boys"

98 SB: "Hawaiian Breed"

96 SB: KWXX DJ

95 hm: NHH Song Award
- QSR: Scroll to "`Ôpihi Man" clip
- Kilbey: Lyrics & chords

Kamahele, Keola

[kah mah heh' keh, means "traveler or far-reaching"]

O`ahu

Contact:

The Mountain
Apple Company

info@
mountainapple
company.com

PO BOX 22373
Honolulu HI
96823

800.882.7088

2000 HS: RCHNK

2000 HA: Big screen buddies

2000 HA: Ho`okena & Keali`i Reichel: "From a dancer", a salute to Keola
- Keola Donaghy's Review
- H: Clip:  "From a Dancer": "Ho`okena 5"

- 97 SB: Jon & Randy's "For a dancer"

91 mc: The Brothers Cazimero's "Follow Me"

Kamahele, Sonny

[kah mah heh' keh, means "traveler or far-reaching"]

0`ahu

Contact:

Sonny Kamahele,
Duno Records
55 South Judd St
#610
Honolulu HI
96817

Contact:
The Mountain
Apple Company

info@
mountainapple
company.com
PO Box 22373
Honolulu HI
96823

800.882.7088

99: Benny Kalama's Best Friend

99 SB: "Drifting & Dreaming with Sonny Kamahele" w/ clips

97 SB: "Beautiful Hawai`i"

97 BL: "Hawai`i's Golden Treasures"
- SB: Featured artist

96: NHH Lifetime Achievement Award

Kamai, Jonny

Photo

[kah mai']

O`ahu

Kamaiman@
aol.com

Jonny@
hisurf.com

Contact:
MGC Records
94-035 Leokâne St
Waipahu HI
96797

98 SB: Hawai`i Music Awards
- "Hawai`i Music Awards" w/ "Beautiful Hawai`i' clip

97 SB: "It's Kind of Personal"

H: "They Say Lucky You Live Hawai`i" (1979) w/ annotations

- BVK: "It's Kind of Personal"

MP3 : "I Say I Do," "Give Me the Light," "It's Because of You"

5:05 Lead guitarist

Kamaile, Isaac

Photo

[kah mai' leh, means "the fragrant-leaved vine"]

Moloka`i

Contact:

Monkeypod Records

info@
monkeypod.com

Kaunakakai HI 96748
1.800.245.9181

Bio & "Hele On Times" clip

99 M: "Moloka`i Now" (VA) - Clips
- OR News Release
- BVK
- MT Review

99 OR: "Shaka the Moon" (VA)
- SB Review

97 SB: "Sweet Moloka`i"

Kamaka, Samuel Kaiali`ili`i

[kah mah' kah, means "the face or eye"; kai' (y)ah lee ee lee ee]

`Ukulele luthier

Kalani

Kamaka Hawai`i Inc.
550 South St
Honolulu HI
96813-5010

808.531.3165

2000 SB: Honored

`Ukulele Hall of Fame Inductee

UHF: Bio

BU: History of the Kamaka `Ukulele
- BU: Tour of Kamaka Hawai`i, Inc.

BM: Kamaka Koa

HP: A Musical Legacy

Made in Hawai`i

99: Retiring crafters

98 PBN: Strumming craze

98: Leslie Nunes transitions

28: `Ukulele design patent

Kamakahi, David "Kâwika"  

Photo

(David 'Iolani-o-Na'o'o Shunichi Kamakahi)

[kah' mah kah' hee, KAH' vee kah, transliteration of David]

O`ahu

Dancing Cat
E-Mail

Contact:

Ben Churchill,
Director,
Marketing
benc@
dancingcat.com

Dancing Cat
Records
PO Box 639
Santa Cruz CA 95061

Web Site  

- HPTV: Father's Interview: "David is such a great `ukulele player"

2000 BOH: Slack Key Festival

2000 mc: "Hui Aloha" w/ clips of every track
- 2000 AC: w/ "Steal Away," "Pa'ahana," "Pu'u Anahulu," "Pâlolo," "Monterey Sunrise (instrumental)" clips
- DC: w/ clips - Notes
- SB Review w/ clips
- HA Review w/ clips
- John Book's Review
- Minnesota - UCLA - Raleigh
- PT: The Music of HO

99 ATH: "`Ohana" w/ "`Ûlili E," "Pupukanioe," "Around the World," "Pua Hone" clips
- DC: "`Ohana - Family" w/ clips - Notes
- SB Review

Listen: Yahoo!

98 MT: "Nâ`Ôiwi"

99 AC: "Slack Key Masters Volume 2"  w/ "`Ulili E", "Pu`u Anahulu", "Wahine `Ilikea" (VA) w/ editorial and customer reviews
- SB Review

9/97 SB: Hollywood Bowl 

9/97 SB: At the Hollywood Bowl

97: Santa Cruz, CA Review

Also listed under Hui Aloha

Kamakahi, Dennis  

(BD: 3-31-53)

Photo

(Dennis David
Kahekili- mamaoikalani-
keha Kamakahi)

[kah' mah kah' hee]

Also see:  Nâ `Ôiwi

O`ahu

Calendar

NAUKILO@
aol.com

Dancing Cat
E-Mail

Contact:
Ben Churchill,
Director, Marketing
benc@
dancingcat.com

Dancing Cat
Records
PO Box 639
Santa Cruz CA 95061

Web Site - HPTV: Interview - HPTV: Video

"Dennis Kamakahi is one of Hawai'i's most prolific and accomplished songwriters and slack-key masters. He was a member of the famed Sons of Hawai'i." ~J.W. Junker

Catalog - DC: Bio - HSKGF: Bio

9/2002: IZ' Facing Future Earns Gold

8/2002 NM:  Slack Key Guitar Festival

8/2002 SB: Tune into 10 hours of top talent & Review: Kî Hô`alu No Ka `Oi: Slack Key Guitar Festivals Vol. I w/ clips

6/2002 SB: Dennis to perform at Academy

4/2002 HA: Colleagues mourn Moe Keale

12/2000 SB: Shipley's closing

2000 (VIDEO): "Sons of Hawai`i"
- ‘Sons of Hawaii’ an epic masterpiece
- Y: Most noteworthy of Hawaiian filmmakers

2000 AC: "Hawaiian Slack Key Christmas" (VA) w/ "My Hawaiian Christmas", editorial and customer reviews

2000 AC: "Rough Guide to Hawaiian Music" (VA) w/ "`Ulili E", editorial and customer reviews

2000 mc: "Hui Aloha" w/ clips of every track
- 2000 AC: w/ "Steal Away," "Pa'ahana," "Pu'u Anahulu," "Pâlolo," "Monterey Sunrise (instrumental)" clips
- DC: w/ clips - Notes
- SB Review w/ clips
- HA Review w/ clips
- John Book's Review
- Minnesota - UCLA - Raleigh
- PT: The Music of HO

8/2000 CNN: SK: From cowboys to the islands

2000 BOH: Slack Key Festival

99 AC: "`Ohana" w/ "Aloha Ko`olau," "No Ke Aha," "He `Ai No Kalani" clips
- 99 ATH: "`Ohana" w/ "`Ûlili E," "Pupukanioe," "Around the World," "Pua Hone" clips
- DC: "`Ohana - Family" w/ clips - Notes
- SB Review

Listen: Yahoo!

99: Anthem Guest - 98: Cedar Review

99 AC: "Slack Key Masters Volume 2"  w/ "`Ulili E" (VA) w/ editorial and customer reviews
- SB Review

98 MT: "Nâ`Ôiwi"

98 KO: Slack Key Masters, featuring DK

97 AC: "Kî Hô`alu Christmas" (VA): w/ "Christmas Memories" and customer reviews

9/97 SB: Hollywood Bowl 

9/97 SB: At the Hollywood Bowl

97 SB: Nâ Hôkû Men

97 KCC: Slack key master

97 MA: No slack of paradise

12/96 SB Review: "Christmas Time with Eddie Kamae & The Sons of Hawaii"

96 SB: Slack is the Key

96 AC: "Pua`ena" w/ "Ahe Lau Makani," "Sweet Bye And Bye," "Kapela," "Hilo Rag," "Kaua'i O Mano" clips
- DC: Pua`ena w/ clips - Notes
- Metroactive Review
- SB Review
- 96: Bob Tarte's Review

Listen:Yahoo

H: "I Ke Alo O Iesu"

H: "Koke`e" (1983)
- Ho`opi`i Bros: MP3
- Liner / Historical notes (Track 7)
- Kilbey: Lyrics & chords
- Tarte's Review: …K's genius
- Pure Heart: Video

H: "Nâ Makani `Ehâ" w/ historical notes
- PW: IZ's "E Ala E":MP3

H: "Pua Hone," Robin's marriage proposal
- ATH: DK's clip
- DC: Liner / Historical notes (Track 11)

H: "Wahine `Ilikea" w/ historical notes
- DC: Liner / Historical notes (Track 12)
- Kilbey: Lyrics & chords

80 hm: NHH Haku Mele Award
80 hm: NHH Hawaiian Song Award
- H: "E Hihiwai" w/ historical notes
- 79 mc: "The Best of SoH"

BU: Sons of Hawai`i

More Awards

Also listed under Hui Aloha, Sons of Hawai`i

Kamakahi, Kenneth Franklyn

.

.

Kaua`i CC: "`Ohana" dedication

- ATH: "`Ohana" w/ "`Ûlili E," "Pupukanioe," "Around the World," "Pua Hone" clips

Kamakawiwo`ole, Israel "IZ"  

Photo

[kah mah kah vee voh oh' leh, means "the fearless or bold face (or eye)"]

Internet spelling: Israel Kamakiwiwoole or IZ 

IZ Band:

- Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

- Amina, Mel

- Muldoon, Michael

- Holomalia, Gaylord

- `Analû `Âina

Ka Lani

(May 20, 1959 - June 26, 1997)

Send condolences to:
Marlene & Wehe (Ceslieanne)
PO Box 308
Aiea HI 96701

Contact:

The Mountain
Apple Company

info@
mountainapple
company.com

PO Box 22373
Honolulu HI
96823

800.882.7088

TMAC: Web Site

Catalog
- TMAC: Bio - TMAC's IZNewspage
CheckOut: IZ

Ten Who Made a Difference

Looking for the music from e-Toys TV commercial, Steve Dahl Show at WCKG in Chicago, and from the films "Meet Joe Black" and "In God's Hands", and theTV shows "Party of Five" and "Picket Fences":
- 93 AC: "Facing Future" w/ "Hawai'i '78 introduction," "Ka Huila Wai," " 'Ama'ama," "Panini Pua Kea," "Take Me Home Country Road" clips

2002: JC Marion's tribute Web page

7/2002 JG: Hawaiian music in Japantown, SF

2002 hmd: Somewhere, Over the Rainbow lyrics

5/2002 sm:  IZ's song on ER finale

Sam Goody article

5/2002 SB: Nâ Hôkû Hanohano Awards
- Hawaiian Album of the Year — "Alone in IZ World," Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (Big Boy)
5/2002 SB:  Nâ Hôkû Hanohano Awards Nominations

*12/2001WP/U: A Big Man's Ukulele, Plucking Heartstrings

11/2001 HA: IZ's friends still celebrate his music
11/2001 MA: "Alone in IZ World" debuts #1

10/01 MA: CD: Alone in IZ World
- RR feature w/ "Mona Lisa" clip
- 9/2001 SB Review w/ "Mona Lisa," Ahi Wela/ Twinkle, Twinkle," "Hi`ilawe" clips
- 9/2001 HA Review
- 9/2001 HA

5/2001 SB: NHH: Honoring Tradition
4/2001 SB: IZ's Uncle Moe's Second Chance
1/01 HW: Cover glut

12/2000 OM: IZ was pure talent

5/2000 HA: Dancing for IZ ; IZ's granddaughter: Kiara
Kaleinanihiwahiwaakawainohiaokauanoela‘awehiwaonalani ("The precious beautiful lei of a rare gift of the sacred mist, the chosen one from heaven") Parker - Kamakawiwo‘ole

5/2000 SB: IZ Tribute
5/2000 TR: `Ukulele goes respectable

1/2000 HA: Previously unreleased work

99, 97 hm: NHH Graphics Awards (Jon de Mello & IK)

99 AC: "IZ: The Man & His Life" w/ clips of every track: "E Ku`u Morning Dew," "Kamalani," "Kaleohano," "Margarita," "This Hawaiian Man" Intro, "Chant," "E Ala E," "Hene Hene Kou Aka," "Lover of Mine," "White Sandy Beach," "`Ôpae E," "n Dis Life," "Maui, Hawaiian Sup'pa Man," "Hawai`i '78," "Hawai`i Aloha"
- hl: "IZ: The Man & His Music" lyrics

98 AC: "Meet Joe Black" soundtrack w/ IZ's "Somewhere over the Rainbow / What a Beautiful World" clip (song also used by e-TOYS commercial)

98 SB: Fallen Warrior

- Bruddah BU's Retrospective
- Auntie Maria's Tribute Page
- TMAC's Memorial Page
- HL: An Aloha Vigil

IZ: Tribute Site
- IZ Links - Articles
- IZ Lyrics & Links - Articles

QSR: Scroll to "Men Who Ride Mtns" clip

97, 94 hm: NHH Entertainer Award
97 hm: NHH Album Award (IK & Gaylord Holomalia, producers)
97 hm: NHH Island Contemporary Album Award
- SB: Nâ Hôkû Win
- SB: Nâ Hôkû Men

97, 91 hm: NHH Male Vocalist Award

97 SB: IZ, Services

96 AC: "In Dis Life" w/ clips of every track, including: "Hi`ilawe," "In This Life," "Wai'alae," "Starting All Over Again," "Living in a Sovereign Land," "Aloha Ku'u Pua," "Johnny Mâhoe," "Lover of Mine," "Yokozuna," "Na Ka Pueo/Keyhole Hula," "The Fly" clips
- 97 IP: "In Dis Life": "Hi`ilawe" clip

9/96 SB: 'Pick a Hit' great for locals and malihini
- 96 AC: "Pick a Hit" w/ "Hawai`i `78" clip

5/96 SB: Nâ Hôkû Most Affecting Moment - Photo

95 hm: NHH Song Award
95 AC: "E Ala E" w/ clips of every track: "E Ala E," "`Ulili E," "Kaleohano," "Wind Beneath My Wings/He Hawai'i Au," "Tengoku Kara Kaminari (Thunder From Heaven)," "Kamalani," "Aloha Ka Manini," "Maui Medley," "Hele On To Kaua`i," "Kauai Beauty," "Theme From Gilligan's Island," "I Ke Alo O Iesu," "A Hawaiian Like Me" clips

Akaku (Video Short)

PW: "In Dis Life" & E Ala E":MP3's of every track

93 AC: "Facing Future" w/ "Hawai'i '78 introduction," "Ka Huila Wai," " 'Ama'ama," "Panini Pua Kea," "Take Me Home Country Road" clips
- 93 BVK: "Facing Future" w/ clips of every track

92 hm: NHH Single Award
- mc: "Broken Promise"

91 hm: NHH Contemporary Hawaiian Album Award

90 AC: "Ka`ano`i" w/ "Margarita," "Coney Island Washboard Woman," "Kainoa," "Kana'i Aupuni," "I'll Be There / Warren's Song" clips

Also listing under:
Mâkaha Sons, the

Kamasami Kong

Photo

(Bob Zix)

Radio DJ

Japan

FM802

.

Web Site

BL: KK reviews Shaner's "Adventures of Leimomi"

Interview

Kamehameha Schools   

Photo

[kah meh hah meh' hah, refers to the king that united the islands]

O`ahu

Contact:

webmaster@
ksbe.edu

567 S. King St.
Suite 200
Honolulu, HI
96813

808.523.6200

Web Site

2000 PBS: "Hawai`i, Songs of Aloha"
- HA: TV special of Hawai`i's aloha
- SB: Aloha for pledge week

3/24/2000: Song Contest Webcast

80 hm: NHH Hawaiian Special Award
- mc: "Nâ Mele Ho`oheno - The Cherished Songs"
- 97 SB "A Musical Tradition, Nâ Mele Ho`oheno"
- 97 SB: "AMT"