
Kaulana Nā Pua
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Kulāiwi
For Lehua Kalima Alvarez of Na Leo Pilimehana, Kawika Kahiapo and Shawn Kekoa Pimental, the idea to team up and form the group Kulāiwi started in 2018, but the pandemic complicated things.
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Kaulana Nā Pua
Clip: Special | 5m 57sVideo has Closed Captions
For Lehua Kalima Alvarez of Na Leo Pilimehana, Kawika Kahiapo and Shawn Kekoa Pimental, the idea to team up and form the group Kulāiwi started in 2018, but the pandemic complicated things.
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Kawika Kahiapo We’ve performed and sang with multiple groups in Hawaii creating the harmony, figuring out where you fit, but the texture of what we do is... Lehua Kalima Alvarez Right because you have like the voice of God over here, right?
You know (vocalizing).
And then Shawn, he can play like anything, whatever, you know.
And I don't know what I do... Shawn Kekoa Pimental She writes all the greatest songs.
Kawika Kahiapo But you know the texture of her voice is like…I mean like Lehua's one of the most gifted female vocalists, I think in the history of our islands.
But when I talk about the texture it's something like I can be singing with others singing the same song with all the same different parts, but the depth and texture of...I've sung with male bands and this is the harmony here and she's sung with Na Leo amazing, but now the three of us it's like the range just goes like this, from baritone to like falsetto.
It's really incredible.
Performance: Kaulana Nā Pua Kaulana nā pua o Hawai‘i Kūpa‘a ma hope o ka ‘āina Hiki mai ka ‘elele a ka loko ‘ino Palapala ‘anunu me ka pākaha Pane mai Hawai‘i moku o Keawe Kōkua nā Hono a‘o Pi‘ilani Kāko‘o mai Kaua‘i o Mano Pau pū me ke one o Kākuhihewa (Guitar instrumental) ‘A‘ole a‘e kau i ka pūlima Ma luna o ka pepa o ka ‘enemi Ho‘ohui ‘āina kū‘ai hewa I ka pono siwila a‘o ke kanaka ‘A‘ole mākou a‘e minamina I ka pu‘u kālā o ke aupuni Ua lawa mākou i ka pōhaku I ka ‘ai kamaha‘o o ka ‘āina (Guitar instrumental) Ma hope mākou o Lili‘ulani A loa‘a ka pono o ka ‘āina Ha‘ina ‘ia mai ana ka puana Ka po‘e i aloha i ka ‘āina Ma hope mākou o Lili‘ulani A loa‘a ka pono o ka ‘āina Ha‘ina ‘ia mai ana ka puana Ka po‘e i aloha i ka ‘āina Ka po‘e i aloha i ka ‘āina Oooh, oooh Oooh, oooh Oooh, oooh Oooh, oooh, oooh
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