I listened to a ton of music growing up in the ‘70s, often glued to my Panasonic transistor radio, tuned to KKUA and Kamasami Kong. It is mind-blowing that he is still doing his thing on the radio in Japan. Icon.
If not in my room listening to Gerry Rafferty or Santana, you could find me on the living room floor, spinning albums on our Rotel Turntable Record Player. It came with two small speakers that provided just enough bass and treble to rock our windows.
I could not get enough of Carole King’s Tapestry album and her smash hit, “I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet,” and don’t let me get started singing John Rowles’ “Cheryl Moana Marie.” Now, that was music!
We also had classic Hawaiian albums, including Sons of Hawaiʻi, with Gabby “Pops” Pahinui, Eddie Kamae, Joe Marshall and David “Feet” Rogers, and The Sunday Mānoa, with Peter Moon and brothers Robert and Roland Cazimero.
One album in particular stole my heart: Kawai Cockett’s Beautiful Kauaʻi. Maybe it was because Mom played it so often or simply because it was beautiful music. Cockett was a storyteller, some called him “a guardian of Hawaiian tradition and a beacon of aloha spirit.” His voice was distinctive and when accompanied with his ʻukulele, it was magic.
In 1969, he recorded Beautiful Kauaʻi, an album that made him famous. In an interview with KGMB, his son Haʻaheo said, “He loved it when people referred to that as his signature song, because it’s the song that made him who he was. It was recorded previously by Don Ho, but it wasn’t until he recorded it that it became a smash hit.” Cockett won a Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award for Best Male Vocalist in 1994 and 1999, and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. He died two years later at the age of 67.
Please join us on Monday, June 17 for a walk down memory lane, as we feature the late Kawai Cockett and Darlene Ahuna in their 2001 Nā Mele performance. You will hear magic and understand why Kawai Cockett’s music was always spinning on a small turntable, on a living room floor in Kalihi.
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We’re excited to announce that our weekly INSIGHTS on PBS Hawaiʻi program has found a new home on YouTube Live. While we bid farewell to our Facebook Live broadcasts, we’re excited to be a part of our YouTube community. Tune in weekly to our panel discussions where you can ask questions or post comments for the panelists.
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Climate change is impacting everyone. Hawaiʻi is and has been at the forefront of climate discussions, facing challenges like warming waters, coral reef degradation, rising ocean levels and drought-induced wildfires. We are bringing attention to the efforts being made to combat these issues through stories of hope and positive impact happening in our communities. Click and join us for stories, resources and updates on how you can get involved and make a difference.
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In 1984, the captivating voices of Nalani Jenkins, Lehua Kalima and Angela Morales won the Brown Bags to Stardom contest and became household names with their hit song “Local Boys.” Recording that hit single a year later, the song launched their careers as Nā Leo Pilimehana and the rest, as they say, is history.
The group has more than 20 number-one hits, two national top-25 songs, have released more than 24 albums and received 24 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards. With a recent appearance in Waikīkī at Halekulani’s House Without A Key, their performance marked a celebration of an enduring career and also honored the 25th anniversary of PBS Hawaiʻi’s Nā Mele program.
Join us Sunday, June 9 at 7:00 pm on broadcast or streaming, as we commemorate both of these milestones in a special Nā Mele program featuring Nā Leo Pilimehana, surprise guests, and a heartfelt tribute to Hawaiʻi’s musical traditions.
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National Program Highlights
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Sunday evenings get triply mysterious in June on PBS Hawaiʻi. First up, Jasper Tempest, everyone’s favorite criminologist who’s obsessed with cleanliness and order, returns in PROFESSOR T Season 3, which opens with him in jail awaiting trial. Then, on GRANTCHESTER ON MASTERPIECE Season 9, times are changing in the quaint hamlet, as Reverend Will seeks new challenges elsewhere, Geordie faces domestic problems and Alphy Kottaram arrives as the new vicar. D.I. RAY Season 2 rounds things out with Rachita Ray being thrust back into homicide due to brewing tensions between rival crime families.
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The first episode of HOPE IN THE WATER features the historic Heʻeia fishpond on Oʻahu and introduces Hiʻilei Kawelo, a Hawaiian fisherwoman who has spent the past two decades rebuilding the ancient pond so it can once again feed her community with ocean fish as it did 800 years ago. The series is a national component of PBS Hawaiʻi’s Mauka to Makai: Our Kuleana climate change initiative.
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On Art and Pep, meet Art Johnston and Pepe Pea, owners of an iconic Chicago bar who are also civil rights leaders who have fought for the LGBTQ+ community for decades. Behind their business and activism is the inspiring story of their long struggle for equality and their fight to love freely.
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