Ledward kaapana biography definition

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Born in 1948, sixth of ten children, Ledward Kaapana grew up in the remote village of Kalapana on the extreme south shore of the Big Island of Hawai`i. "We didn't have television or even much radio," Led says, "so we entertained ourselves. You could go to any house and everyone was playing music. Even today when I play ki  ho`alu (Hawaiian Slack Key guitar), I picture all the `ohanas (families) getting together and sharing their songs and their aloha." 

Led's family produced many excellent musicians, including his father George, his mother, the noted singer Tina Kaapana, and his uncle, one of ki  ho`alu's true legends, Fred Punahoa (you can hear the late Fred Punahoa’s two recorded tracks, Slack Key Instrumental # 1 (aka Punahoa Special which Led also recorded on his album BLACK SAND [Dancing Cat Records]), and Slack Key Instrumental # 2 (aka Mauna Loa Slack Key, which Led also performs on this album), on the compilation album THE WAIMEA MUSIC FESTIVAL [Panini Records], which also has live performances by The Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band, Sonny Chillingworth, Peter Moon with The Sunday Manoa, Na Leo O Nu`uanu [Slack Key guitarist/ composer Dennis Kamakahi’s first band], and ot

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Ledward Kaapana said life was basic when he was growing up in the tiny village of Kalapana, on the remote southeastern tip of the Big Island of Hawaii. “We didn’t have electricity, not television, not even much radio,” he said. “So we entertained ourselves. You could go to any house, and everybody was playing music.” In his letter of support for Kaapana’s nomination for the NEA honor, ethnomusicologist J.W. Junker noted, “As Led likes to joke: ‘People say that in Kalapana, the music got better as you went further down the road. We lived at the end of the road!’”

When Kaapana was in his teens, he and his twin brother, Nedward, and his cousin Dennis Pavao formed a group, Hui Ohana, which produced fourteen popular albums, made hundreds of live appearances and became a key element in the 1970s renaissance of traditional Hawaiian music. Subsequently, Kaapana formed the trio I Kona. One of its six albums, Jus’ Press, received a Hawaii Academy of Arts Na Hoku Award. Two of his solo albums, Lima Wela and Black Sand, were named Na Hoku Hanohano Instrumental Albums of the Year. In 2008, he formed his own label, Jus’ Press Productions, and released Force of Nature with twelve-string guitarist Mike Kaawa, which earned a Grammy nomination. The two were named Favorite Entertainers