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lynn
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 Posted - 01/25/2012 : 7:09:48 PM
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 This week multiple Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award winner Nāpua Makua returns to the Pakele Live! with Tony Solis stage!
A graduate of Kamehameha Schools and UH Hilo, Nāpua is a teacher (at Kamehameha and Seabury schools on Maui), a kumu hula and a musician/singer/songwriter. She teaches hula, oli and performing arts at Kamehameha, and Hawaiian language (ōlelo Hawai’i) and performing arts at Seabury.
Nāpua grew up with music and hula. Her mother is none other than long time entertainer, Carmen “Hulu” Lindsey, and Nāpua and her sister were her dancers. Nāpua always loved to sing, and received more formal training in voice at Kamehameha Schools. She cites Les Ceballos, Randie Fong, Wayne Chang, Holoua Stender, and Nu’ulani Atkins as her greatest influences in music and hula during her impressionable teenage years. She began receiving recording offers at a young age, but although she sang on all of her mother’s albums and performed a duet with Kaumakaiwa Kanakaʻole on his second album, she didn’t record her own album until 2007. It was worth the wait - that album, entitled “Pihana,” earned her Female Vocalist of the Year honors at the 2008 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards. She and her sophomore album “Mōhalu” won four Nā Hōkū Awards in 2011, including Favorite Entertainer, Female Vocalist of the Year, Hawaiian Album of the Year and Cover Design.
As a dancer, Napua trained under the direction of kumu hula Hokulani Holt-Padilla and graced the illustrious Merrie Monarch stage as an olapa for kumu hula Johnny Lum Ho. In recent years, she has distinguished herself as a kumu hula as well, of Maui’s Halau Na Lei Kaumaka O Uka. From her days as a dedicated dancer, to her rigorous `uniki training to be a kumu hula, the road to success has been filled with challenges she has met with poise and vigor. She has managed to maintain her traditional roots while also evolving as an individual, a kumu, and an entertainer.
Join host Tony Solis for Pakele Live! on Thursday, January 26 from 6:30-8:30p.m. HST at the Willows Restaurant (901 Hausten St., Honolulu). Those who are unable to attend can watch the live stream at www.pakelelive.com. (The show will also be edited for television and shown at a later date on OC16 TV and www.oc16.tv)
Admission is free and all ages are welcome. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. (Doors open at 5:30.) Guests may choose from the full nightly buffet ($34.95) or an a la carte menu created especially for Pakele Live! (and available only during the show), with prices ranging from $5 to $16. Drink specials are also available. Validated valet parking is available for a nominal fee.
Note: If you watch online, don’t forget to email the show at pakele @ lava.net and let us know you’re watching! Mention your name and where you’re located - city, state – or country, if outside the U.S.!
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lynn
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Posted - 01/25/2012 : 7:23:46 PM
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FYI, weʻre trying another work-around this week for the livestream... Hawaiian Tel is of no help w/the T-1 line, and cable guys say they canʻt get to us for at least another month to install. *frustrated*
So keep your fingers crossed! But if all else fails, weʻll try to post the show in its entirety later... and btw, itʻs hard for me to check email, Facebook, etc. during the show because Iʻm working. The pakele lavanet email is the most difficult - itʻs prolly fastest if you post on my Facebook page if thereʻs a problem (https://www.facebook.com/lynn.piccoli), but no guarantees I can answer right away... kala mai... |
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2X Female Vocalist of the Yr NĀPUA MAKUA! (Pakele)
