Olana ai biography
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Natalie Ai Kamauu
Raised in a Hawaiian home honoring traditional hula by renowned Kumu Hula Howard and Olana Ai of Halau Hula Olana filled Natalie Ai Kamauu’s soul with music and dance. From a young age, she performed hula and learned the art of entertainment. In 1990, Natalie won Hawaii’s coveted title of Miss Aloha Hula at the Merrie Monarch Festival. An important part of Miss Aloha Hula is chanting an oli–a beautiful ancient Hawaiian way to orally preserve genealogies, stories, and traditions.
During Christmas season 1990, Natalie called to thank radio DJ, Iolani Kamauu, for playing a Christmas song she’d recorded with veteran studio engineer Dave Tucciarone. He tried to keep her on the line until she’d give him her phone number, but she didn’t. He asked her to call him back at the radio station. She called back the following week.
Iolani Kamauu was part of another hula family–a more modern hula halau. As their friendship moved towards romance, they were warned that their relationship wouldn’t last because they came from such different halau traditions. But they persevered and to this day show the power of true love. Io suggested she record an album professionally. In 2005, she released “E.” And the rest is h
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AIEA (KHNL)- Representation Na Hoku Hanohano Awards brings pillars of Island music, lend a hand, present pole the tomorrow together line of attack recognize achievements of tape artists from the beginning to the end of the islands.
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So when he was a child, he was close to hula. After gaining a career as a dancer from childhood, he learned hula in earnest to be Kumu hula from Kalani Akana who is a Kumu hula. And then, he achieved Uniki in 2003.
In addition to that, he was invited Lei hulu hula school from Kimo Alama Keaulana who is a hula master. He is very popular as a bright and friendly and young Kumu.
Akira Goto (Hawaii cultural lesson)
Professor of Department of Humanity and science human race cultural subject of Nanzan University.
Akira Goto was born in Sendai in 1954. He majored in literature at Tokyo university and he majored archaeology at graduate school. He acquired the anthropology doctor's degree at the University of Hawaii graduate school. He is interested in the research of the human race's movement in the sea, Neptune theory, Myth Study of sea, and traditional canoe, etc. Recently, when the "Hokule'a" visits Japan, he organizes sciense education program Cooperation Committee in cooperation with National Astronomical Observatory and a Tokyo oceanic university, and he was involved in an oceanic cultural pavilion renewal business in the oceanic exposition commemoration park in Okinawa. Nowadays,