— -- Anuhea Jenkins has made a name for herself as an island reggae singer, but she says her career could have taken a completely different direction. When she was growing up, the Hawaii native ...

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, ...

Reggae, R&B and Hawaiian music have all made its way into his sound. — -- Justin Young has come a long way from singing in the closet because he didn’t want his neighbors to hear. The Oahu-born ...

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 ...

Thirteen years after it was first released, the song Let’s Do it Again by Hawaiian reggae singer J Boog, has been certified platinum in America. The certification was issued on February 8 by the ...

Hawaiian songstress Paula Fuga – who first found fame as a rejected contestant on American Idol and recently collaborated with North Shore neighbor Jack Johnson – is embarking on her first stateside ...

• EDITOR’S NOTE: The Maui News is featuring some of Maui’s Na Hoku Hanohano Award nominees in the lead-up to the ceremony in September when the winners will be announced. Listening to Lukela Keala’s ...

Singer-guitarist Walter Aipolani, better known as Bruddah Waltah, died Thursday after a long battle with liver cancer. He was 68. In a 40-year-plus career as one of Hawaii’s music superstars, a short ...

It’s been nearly a year since Bruddah Walter Aipolani’s doctor diagnosed him with advanced liver cancer. “He gave me less than one year to live,” the award-winning musician sadly announced at last ...

Part 2: Jawaii steps into the late ’80s and early ’90s, a pivotal time when local musicians began to make reggae their own. They added slack key and ʻukulele. They sang about their own stories, making ...

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