Hawaiianology

Kent William Bowman (1923-2007), Hilo, Hawaii, (French, Hawaiian, Scottish, and English). He is considered a pioneer in his work on the road for his unique style and the “Pioneer of Local Hawaiian comedy“. He is serious as he is aware of the local-climate and takes great pride in his craft as other entertainers who bring a fun loving crowd. He would bring the do not talk discussion to the stage of politics and societal ethnic culture as well as current events that would connect with the audience for quality laughs. He is said to have been an absolute gentleman and one of the funniest guys that anyone would ever meet. He would see the stage and performances as a show and treated it as such and those who took it too seriously would tend to forget that it was a show, because they think that a person just goes on stage, is silly and that is as deep as it gets, but there's a complex comedy process. Rarely was he ever at a loss for words, Kent was a master of the English language, Pidgin...

kDonald Tai Loy "Don" Ho (1930-2007),  Born August 13, 1930, Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, and German descent. The iconic Hawaiʻi-born entertainer who paved the way for recording, television, and live shows as a star both locally and nationally for Hawaii Entertainers. Don always had a gift of making you feel very special and his focus and way of speaking made you feel like you were the only one in the room with him while on a stage in front of many people. He had so much kindness and conversations would be well led and he talked a bit slowly to make it feel like he was spending so much time with you too even if for a bit. The way Don did things is he made a plan and saw the path that he felt he had no choice to take and he took it as a matter of going out and doing something out of necessity. In a way its like there are other choices, but this is the one that has to be done for what I valued, like he wanted to know more about music and not knowing music himself he ta...

Kuiokalani Lee known as “Kui Lee” was one of the biggest rebels of his time, he made a great impact as one of Hawaii’s greatest singers, and songwriters looked at lyrics and the tunes he wrote that had a large impact on Hawaiian history. Kui Lee attended Kamehameha and then later graduated from Roosevelt. He had a really ripped body, a handsome Hawaiian-Chinese-Caucasian man and he could do lots of stuff. Fire knife dancing, Singing, Dancing.  He liked turtle necks,  He never really liked doctors  The Rebel Hawaiian Paving the Road Looking back it can be easy to say that he was doing what everyone would hope would be the best stuff he could make, but there were plenty of people that didn’t agree with him singing in English and playing in a style of his own that was almost lounge-like. He really wanted to do things his way and it wasn’t because of it only being a choice, but for the reason of expressing what he wanted to in a way he wanted to, because he had this sense of ...