We’ve counted your picks from our latest HAWAII Magazine Facebook Ohana poll question: Who is your favorite Hawaii music artist? Ever. The top five vote-getters are on the pages ahead.
Your picks specified more than 50 artists, ranging from innovative newcomers with recent hits on pop charts to iconic late artists remembered for setting music trends and recording Hawaii classics in decades past.
Among the runners-up to the top-five vote-getters were beloved late musicians, such as slack-key guitarist Gabby Pahinui, who helped usher in the 1970s sound of the Hawaiian Renaissance — a revival of long-suppressed and neglected cultural identity expressed in music, language, hula and Hawaiian voyaging canoes. There was also singer and ukuele player Aunty Genoa Keawe (pictured, below), famous for her soaring falsetto and a mainstay in the Hawaiian music scene for six decades before she passed away four years ago.
Among the runners-up you may be able to see performing in Hawaii or elsewhere: singer-songwriter Willie K. (Kahaialii), known for his three-octave range and an eclectic mix of Hawaiian, jazz and early rhythm-and-blues influences. Kahaialii became a force in the Hawaii music scene in the early 1990s. Also on that list, Jack Johnson (pictured, above), who surfaced in the late 1990s as a popular singer-songwriter with folk rock/alternative rock tunes such as Banana Pancakes and Better Together. Mahalo for sharing your favorite Hawaii music artists!
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Previous HAWAII Magazine Facebook polls have tallied your takes on everything from favorite hiking trails, scenic lookouts and natural wonders to favorite plate lunch foods, snacks and Hawaii-filmed TV series. (Online links to past poll results are listed on the page 5 of this post.)
We’ll be posting our next Ohana Poll question on HAWAII Magazine’s Facebook page in the days ahead. OK, here we go. Here’s the top five countdown of our Facebook ohana’s favorite Hawaii music artists. Ever. Check out the video clip for each.
Source: www.hawaiimagazine.com
Notes
by Live_Aloha 1) begins with an oli, a Hawaiian chant-prayer, the ancient mele and instruments, and shows a common form of Hawaiian love song, a love song to a place, in this case the Big Island's (and the world's) largest mountain, Mauna Kea
2) The operatic voices and stand-up base & 12-String from Robert & Roland Cazimero, longtime Waikiki performers. Robert is also a major kumu hula (hula instructor). Don Ho fans may note the song Pearly Shells in the melody. Traditional Hawaiian music was soon influenced by harmonic hymnsinging brought by the missionaries
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