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 ...

Philip Kunia Pahinui "Gabby" (1921-1980) was a Hawaiian musician, son of Charles Kapono Kahahawai. He was Hanaied to Emily (Wife) and Philip (Pahinui Ohana). He was known as "Pops" in respects he was everyones pops with his humble with a big heart to all people in Hawaii. When he was being booked he would often over book himself to show he cared by jamming away with a chill attitude where he would demonstrate his kindness through and through. He had made sure it was all about coming as you are all the time and would want people to express themself. Gabby grew up in Kaka'ako Honolulu (1920s) where he would sell newspapers and shining shoes to support his struggling family and play with Ah Fan as kids. Gabby use to hang out by the pier and would dive for coins with his hair having water roll off, which made people call him "Gabardine Hair" that would later on change to "Gabby".  Food was also shown consideration as he went and use to soak loafs...

File Sharing birthed the Digital Music Realm Hawaii File Sharing changed the music industry forever by shifting money away from the record companies and to the people where people would listen to music and have it on their computer instead of on a physical media like compact disc. Prior to this these old things called Record Stores that had a library of Records, Cassettes, and Compact Discs, with music albums going for $20 in (1999) is worth $37.00 (2025) vs the industry standard of today $13.00 (2025), which was $7 in (1999). Music sharing would continue with Kazaa, Limewire, and this was due to record companies not paying their artists enough and fans wanting prices to go down with the hype of next-level technology that would clear space in their homes by having files instead. Compact Discs for example would go from 13 songs being on there to over a 100 songs and people were writing compact discs like crazy, so there was an obvious need for: respect for people’s home storage, reasona...

“There was nothing better than a box of Kabuki, this place was all about local families” Kabuki Restaurant was located at 98-020 Kamehameha Hwy on the line of Aiea and Waimalu. The competition was steep with the main discussion being Gyotaku or Kabuki at Waimalu Shopping Center for eating-in and various other Japanese Restaurants either Local or Authentic. Overtime Kabuki would be survive with their food dishes that were really local with the interior reflecting the times of the plantation where there was a lot of the look and feel as it was when it opened. When people went to the airport a common thing to bring was a bento or okazu filled box they had got from outside or if a student had a kabuki bento for lunch the other students would be envious. Family gatherings were all the rage when eating at the restaurant side with the wooden containers that held the dishes in made it feel old-school fancy with the large chunked sashimi that felt like how fishermen ate it back in the day. It w...

“Taking home boxes full of food was boxes full of love, this place represented family” Aiea Chop Suey was located 99-115 Aiea Heights Dr # 101, there was a time in Aiea where there were factories, sugar cane on the hills angled from the wind and at the bottom of the hill there would be a small town feeling shopping center where people would come to visit and spend their time. Students would be walking from Aiea Intermediate seeing the sugar mill on the side and passing by the houses and then to the shopping center where it was a thing to look forward to and see something other than a classroom. The working adults would have the experience of driving past the shopping center on their way back from a drive and see a restaurant or two they would want to go to and take their families to the eateries there. In the 1960’s, Aiea Chop Suey began, The Lum Family came from China and to Hawaii where they would live in Aiea and send their kids to the elementary school in the area and lived a littl...