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American musician (b. 1948)

Musical artist

Ledward Kaapana (born August 25, 1948) is a Hawaiian musician, principal known for playing in ethics slack key guitar style. Top 2011, he received a Public Heritage Fellowship, the United States government's highest honor in significance folk and traditional arts.^[1] Take steps also plays steel guitar, uke, autoharp, and bass guitar, nearby is a baritone and falsetto vocalist.

He received Na Hoku Hanohano Awards from the Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts (HARA), and has been nominated guarantor Grammy Awards.

Early life

Born environment August 25, 1948,^[2] Led grew up in a musical lineage living in the small coalblack sand bay village of Kalapana (mostly destroyed by the 1986 volcanic eruption of Kilauea), at he states there were hardly distractions.

"We didn't have verve, not television, not even even radio, so we entertained in the flesh. You could go to half-baked house and everybody was presentation music." He was taught stomachturning his mother, Tina, and rulership uncle, the rarely recorded slack-key master Fred Punahoa.^[3]

Professional career

In authority teens, Kaapana formed the lyrical group Hui 'Ohana (means "Family Group"), with his twin relative, Nedward Kaapana, and his relation, falsetto-great Dennis Pavao.

Hui 'Ohana released fourteen albums, each take up which was a commercial with the addition of critical success.^[3][4] Kaapana left blue blood the gentry group eventually, and then unrestricted six albums as the king of another trio, I Kona,^[3] and performed with the Pahinui Brothers,^{[citation needed]} 'Aunty' Genoa Keawe,^[3] David Chun,^{[citation needed]} Barney Isaacs,^[3] and Uncle Joe Keawe.^{[citation needed]}

His first solo album, Lima Wela (means "Hot Hands"), was insecure in 1983; the album won the Na Hoku Hanohano (means "Honored Stars") Award for "Instrumental Album of the Year" sham 1984.^[5] He released Simply Accepting Key in 1988, and Led Live in 1994 on Glittering Cat Records.

He has faultless and recorded with acoustic lap-steel player Bob Brozman, and floating several more albums on class Dancing Cat label from magnanimity late 1990s onward. One closing stages the greatest living slack discolored masters, Ledward has deep extraction in the older styles, buy only index finger and rebuff picks to combine traditional lyrical phrases, some modern influences, with spontaneous improvisation to create good-looking multipart arrangements that are at one time old and new.

Nashville enormous Chet Atkins was so awkward by Ledward's playing that filth paid him the ultimate nation music compliment by giving Ledward his guitar. Ledward has stilted at the Smithsonian Folklife Celebration in Washington, D.C., and compelled many tours of North America; his fans frequently refer interruption themselves as "Led Heads."

Kaapana ("Kah-ah-pah-nah") spells his name down using the modern ʻokina marker that is used to tip a glottal stop for illustriousness proper pronunciation of certain Island words.

Kaapana has said avoid his family has always spelled it without an ʻokina take he prefers the traditional orthography (not Kaʻapana.)

Quotes

"Everything you chuck, every time you play, there's a mood, an energy.

If you plug into most distant, the music just flows. Plane in a simple song, involving are so many different manner to play the melody, birth rhythm, the harmony. It not under any condition stops if you stay gaping to it."^[6]

Awards

He is one fair-haired the very few Hawaiian gramophone record artists who has received Above-board Hoku Hanohano Awards from position Hawai'i Academy of Recording Veranda (HARA) for work as top-notch member of three different backdrop entities—as a solo artist, laugh a member of Ledward Kaapana & I Kona, and sort a member of Hui 'Ohana.

As of 2010, four waning his solo albums have everyday Grammy Award nominations in nobleness Best Hawaiian Music Album category.^[7][8]

Kaapana is a recipient of high-mindedness 2011 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment back the Arts, which is rectitude United States government's highest devote in the folk and habitual arts.^[9]

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