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We are going through the Akaku vaults to find gems from Maui's past.
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As we do every year, we're going to get people to put their hand and feet prints, dignitaries
in the wet cement.
Now personally, I'm really looking forward to that because I'm for Waianae and whenever
wet cement was involved, it was about hiding people, not letting you know where they are.
And I think the first is Kumutaua, no, no, no, you're not up yet, you're not up yet.
You will be up soon.
Okay, and after we're going to show a video first.
And ladies and gentlemen, you probably want to stick around for this because to show how
powerful Kumutaua's mana is, he will be putting his feet prints in the dry cement from last
year, the kind, you want to stick around for that, okay?
My name is Maribau, many asked Maribau, I was blessed with that name from my aunt, which
I hold dearly, and I used the name throughout high school, but when I came into Hawaiian
culture things, starting when I was working with the educational department, they said,
ah, you've got to go with your Hawaiian name.
So after that, it's continued with my middle name, Kinlee, to become cool, which means
teacher, more likely it could be a pet word in reference to your sweetheart.
I like that the best, I like to call my sweetheart Kumutaua.
I'm the last of 14 children born in Kula Maui.
It was a challenge to be the last in some levels, but also great because you're spoiled
rotten if you're the last, and many of my siblings enjoyed me so much, especially one
of my sisters, that she had me sleeping in the same bed with her, and without me recognizing
being young of age, she dressed me up in a dress.
When I was teaching at Manalo School Elementary in Intermediate, my principal saw an advertisement
that said teachers will be taught in the ancient ways, and so my principal wanted me to go
get the information and participate, and at that time, hula and men dancing hula was not
an in thing.
I mean, you would very seldom find men dancing, so I had them hard to have to go, but if I
ever run into the principal, I'd be on my knees thanking him because my whole career
changed.
Today, it's my passion to want to share those elements that are able to help young people
focus and utilize the culture.
Thank you.
Aloha eeee, aloha eeeee
Love is everything
Aloha ike kahi ike kahi
Hello.
Don't step on any of these young people.
These young people are here to get the shot.
And you can tell they're young because they actually
lay on the ground.
And all the old guys notice they're all standing up.
They got people, you know, to do that for them.
Young people on the ground.
You guys ready?
All the young people?
Wow, there you go.
Oh, look, they put a powder on his feet, evidently,
having a little problem.
Oh, that's this.
Wait, let me see if I got this right.
If you don't put the powder, brother,
he's here for the night.
Wow, that's brutal.
By the way, for those of you who were here last year,
you missed out because had all the feet came in here.
And if you'll notice, we have three extraordinary dignitaries,
right?
And one drunk brother that came out of Hang Loose Lounge.
Wow, what's going on?
You guys make me stop there.
And he was a Patriots fan.
Look at brother laughing.
You got a good sense of humor, you brother.
OK.
Oh, look, now the hands go down.
We're getting all that?
You see over here?
He's pushing right there.
Don't push too hard, Kumu.
Come on now, people in China going, hey, what's going on?
You see your powder on Kumu's feet.
Girls flock to be a part of that.
Oh my god, I'm so jealous.
Comics, we don't get groupies, you know?
No, we don't, because you've got to think to appreciate a comic,
and that filters out all the really good groupies.
What about the holes from the chair?
Elijah, come get some shots of the holes from the chair.
Look at that, four holes from the chair.
See that?
There you go.
How come you got three hands?
No, but there's three hands.
There's like two big ones and a little one.
Or there's you, you sneaky bugger.
What you did?
Poke your hand over there.
What's that?
Huh?
What's that?
Oh, we got to fix the pukas before he right.
Oh, here's better, here's better.
Come on, come front or back, come front or back.
Come on, come front or back, come front or back.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
Elijah, you got to move.
You missed a shot.
Look what kind of jump job he did.
He didn't want anybody to see his old colleagues.
Look at you.
OK, here's your second shot.
Boy, we can't wait to do it.
Oh, look.
Oh, see, pull up his pants already, huh?
OK.
Yeah, look.
Yeah, look, brother's doing a good job right there.
What's going on now?
How come she's riding?
I know, but it's your feet shooting.
Oh, you got the grandkids, the daughter.
Why don't you go home, get your dog, have him run through.
Oh, man.
Look at that.
That looks nice.
How nice.
Thank you.
Let's hear it from one here for our honoree, Kumotawa,
the whole family.
Next year, we're going to have that dog.
I want to let all of you know out there
that I was born and raised in a little village called Kahakulua,
sitting on the north-western shores of Maui.
My father was the midwife, and helped my mom along,
and took out the umbilical cord.
And there I'd be shouting in a key of F, G, and C.
And so I was born 1941 on March 15th,
and that makes me, today, 71 years of age.
And I want to thank God for keeping me through that.
It's a promise.
After 70, you get many things that's coming to you.
You just got to continue to be good.
So I worked all over construction, Kanapali,
when it just began to build, who were there
with the Hawaiian Dredging Company.
And worked through it.
Finally, I got a part-time job with the county
first here at EL Valley, taking care of the grounds
and the toilets and setting everything to be right.
And then I got a full-time job at the golf course,
working there for a total of 25 years of service and retired.
All the years of my schooling, my work,
has always been the phase of looking for it to one day
to become a musician.
And I did it in my own way.
My brother and I were known as the Ho'op brothers, Rick,
and Song.
He passed on seven years ago, and still miss him.
I haven't gone it when I get on the stage.
And so much memories, so much songs,
and so much memories to both the audiences
and both of us, the artists.
So I just want to thank, while he was alive with me,
thank my brother for the knowledge, wisdom,
understanding of music.
He was a better musician than I was.
The future that needs to grow bigger and wider
and sharing with the knowledge, wisdom, understanding
of the Kanaka Maoli, the Hawaiian cultural language,
and other things that you can learn from through our elders
of our kupuna, our hula practitioners.
And it gives me great pleasure to sing for,
allows to see the performance of the hula dancers, male and female.
I think there is a wide future for that.
I think more and more the world out there
as making an attempt to learn Ehula,
learn to play the ukulele, learn to play guitar,
slacky, learn to sing in Hawaiian languages,
learn the Hawaiian language, and interpret Hawaiian language.
And so we'll be so happy to teach whoever want to learn.
So it gives us an opportunity to share our culture to the world.
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Last song was smoking.
What do you think?
Anybody else?
Think so?
Look here bro.
You should see how hard it was for him to sit down
without putting his feet on the ground.
Imagine trying to do that.
You sit down, you can't put your feet on the ground.
But he's enjoying himself.
He looked powder part, yeah?
Now what?
Now he gotta, no!
He gotta reach down and touch the floor
while he's sitting on the chair.
Bro, when's the last time you did that?
Three years ago.
He was like, 21, eh, bro?
He's not crying, bro.
Okay, wait.
If you need some help, you know, brother.
Anybody get eyebrow pro...
eyebrow profan, what's it called?
Eye...
Pinal and all.
Look, hold bro.
Man!
Okay, wait a minute, wait a minute.
We gotta get some of it.
Who's young boy?
Young boy, green shirt, come here, stand up.
Stand up.
Stand on the, here, I'll hold your cahili.
Stand up like he's doing.
And put your hands flat on the ground
without bending your knees.
Come on, try that!
Come on, brother, try it.
Oh, wait, oh, look at that, your palms never hit, bro.
Your palms never hit.
And look, you gotta give them credit.
How's that, bro?
That was very impressive.
Wow.
We're gonna go to Amy's video.
We got a video of Amy Hanayalii.
Amy, your video's coming up after that.
Then you gotta put your hand in the sun.
We gotta hurry up so if you put your hand,
you don't stick.
This is Amy Hanayalii.
One of my biggest inspirations in my music
and in my entertaining is my grandmother.
Her name was Jenny Napua Wood
and she was from Moloka'im.
And I wrote this song in collaboration
with a very dear friend of mine
and it talks about a flower
and my grandmother getting ready to pass
and how delicate the flowers, the petals are,
how fragrant it is, how beautiful it is.
And it's a song called Napua.
And it goes.
Hello, Imaela.
Kuvai maka.
Ke honila ko ala.
E hahanlai o loko.
He alai walea ikunui kino.
Haubua e kahalea no moloka'im.
With this event today, when I was called in
and told that I was going to be honored today,
I was so honored.
You know, I'm a Maui girl
and I'm one of the Kihei Rugrats back in the day.
Well, a lot of people don't know
that I was actually raised in old Kihei on Maui here.
And my father used to run the 76 station
across from Kalama Park.
And one of my first jobs was actually pumping gas
for my dad.
I was only about maybe six or seven.
Funny little story, then I became my other job
right after that was I was so stoked
that I was the paper girl for Maui News.
A lot of people don't know that.
And had my own paper route
all the way up Lupola Street to Kihei School.
Left Kihei School, went to Baldwin High School, graduated.
And auditioned to get into a music school in San Diego,
where I received full scholarship
to study musical theater.
And decided in college
that I wanted to become an opera singer.
So studied a lot of classical music,
Latin, French, German.
Of course, you know, still loving my Hawaiian music.
The thing about Hawaiian music, you know,
Hawaii is 10 years behind the rest of the music world
and always has been.
And our fans like to touch and feel and smell
and look at the kakos or quinas.
They like to look at the mahalos in the album.
I think that is the beauty of Hawaiian music,
that we are, we're ahead
because everybody's gonna come back to that,
but yet we're behind a little bit.
So it's kind of a very interesting push and pull.
With O'Leilah Hawaii being so strong Hawaiian language,
I love hearing new compositions.
I love kaona, listening to different types of kaona in music.
You know, my Hawaiian music is,
and my music in general has taken me so far.
And to come home now
and actually live here for the last three years
has really been really, really great.
And just so honored today
that I'm actually being honored with two great men,
two legends in their own right.
And so looking forward to the future
and what's in store next.
Oh, man, you look good on camera, Amy.
Where you are?
Where are you?
Where'd you go?
I never know you care.
Here we go.
Feet inside our cement.
Yeah, I know.
How's that?
I want to take a swim.
Yeah, that would have been hot.
Put your leg up because your pants,
you don't want to get your pants on this cement
because it's a weird color.
I never saw cement like this.
Is this the color it's going to stay?
Huh?
It's a red dirt kind of, huh?
Upcountry cement.
Oh, there we go.
Uh-oh.
Okay, now here comes that,
here comes that Jack LaLaine part.
I didn't say nothing.
Hey, Como did it?
Oh, you cheat, you bend your knees.
At least you can bend your knees.
If I did that, my knees would be going,
eh, I'll give, look how small your hands look,
my goodness.
Hey, great job, look at that.
Good, huh?
10 more minutes and Amy would have been stuck there
till next year.
This would be a bad time to misspell anything.
You're going to shot at that?
Oh, beautiful.
Oh, beautiful.
And you know what, Amy,
how hard was it to leave out the was he a part?
Okay.
Oh, just from flashback from high school, eh?
Was he a?
Now hold on here.
In case anybody forget your name, George,
all I gotta do is walk over here
to last year's inductees and see George
Kahumoku Jr. in cement right here last year.
Right on Malo.
And thank you for bringing your group here
from its UHMC, these are your students?
These are the Institute of Fine Music.
We got about, actually when we first started out,
it started like American Idol, but it was Hawaiian Idol.
We had about 3,000 hits on the internet.
From there, we sent out about 1,000 applications.
200 came in and then we actually auditioned
about 70 students and from that,
we were able to choose to select 25.
Now we're down to about,
I think we've got about 16 or 18 students left.
So anyway, good job.
It's a two year, it's a 18 month program.
They learn about Hawaiian language, Hawaiian culture,
and we meant to do them up with somebody,
you know, if you wanna learn Kolele or guitar or falsetto.
In fact, those are our mentors.
Uncle Richard Hopi is one of our mentors.
And also Kili Tau is one of the mentors for the program.
Wow.
So thank you.
No problem.
Okay, I'm gonna go give my microphone
to your girl singer here.
Okay, thank you.
And you take it from here.
Okay, then mahalo.
Go get him, George.
Anyway, we're gonna, this is Axel.
Axel is from Kauai, then we got Adam from Nanda Street.
And Brad Bordes is actually from Honoka for the Big Island.
And then Travis from Honolulu.
And we got Louis from Sand Hill.
And George Kawamuku actually from the Big Island for Hawaii.
Okay, we're gonna feature Axel for his surfers out there.
Thank you so much.
It was interesting.
Yeah, yeah, everything.
All right, the song I'm gonna be playing for you guys
is called Body Surfing by Herb Ota, Ota-san.
So, enjoy.
Ready?
This is German, I'm gonna hand it over to Axel Coyer.
This is German, I'm gonna hand it over to Axel Coyer.
This is German, I'm gonna hand it over to Axel Coyer.
This is German, I'm gonna hand it over to Axel Coyer.
This is German, I'm gonna hand it over to Axel Coyer.
This is German, I'm gonna hand it over to Axel Coyer.
