Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 20—Walter "Bruddah Waltah" Aipolani, a Jawaiian music pioneer and the only Jawaiian or "island music" artist to receive a Na ...

American Song Contest, a music reality TV competition, will air its fourth episode on Monday, April 11. We will see 11 new participants take to the stage for the fourth round of the Live Qualifiers.

Flip through the local radio channels and it won’t be long until you hear a reggae song. The characteristic one drop drumming and offbeat-emphasized rhythm dominates popular music in the islands, and ...

With February being Reggae Month, this is the seventh in an eight-part series looking at reggae’s global influence. The music originated in Jamaica but has been embraced by people in many countries.

Reggae is huge in Hawaii. The easygoing sound and spirit of reggae music have inspired generations of Hawaiian natives, visitors and musicians. From Simplisity to Butch Helemano to the Ka’ala Boys, ...

Music is one of Hawaii’s most distinct and proud cultural traditions. Whether it’s traditional Hawaiian mele, classic instrumentation on ukulele, steel guitars and slack key, or contemporary ...

A: “When I came back from college, I ran into a couple of the members, Gilbert (Osaki), and we were playing under the tree, and a couple of the other band members (Derek Higa and Edwin Valenzuela) ...

While we’ve been enjoying Lumines II for months, Japan hasn’t gotten a copy of it yet. It looks like there might be some changes (additions?) to the song list since Q Entertainment announced that ...

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“I knew him, but I didn’t really know him,” she said. “He was super low-key. He introduced himself as Walter Aipolani, and I didn’t know until a couple years later he was Bruddah Waltah. He would come ...