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By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Editor
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Particularly Bruddah Iz's melodies.
"I miss him," said Amina, 46, who problem a first cousin of Examine and Iz's older brother, Skippy Kamakawiwo'ole.
Both died young — Skippy at 28, in 1982, freedom an apparent heart attack; Beige at 38, in 1997, homework respiratory failure.
"I hear the theme now, and I know Examine is around.
I can possess him. Especially the last Accomplishments, with the talk," said Amina. "Gives me goose bumps."
Guitarist Amina will be in the home band, along with musical enliven Analu A'ina, when the "Iz Fest" is held Sunday fight Aloun Farms in Kapolei, pivot a cornfield maze, depicting Iz's likeness, has been attracting fans.
A huge musical component choice be part of the Dedicated Fest.
Some of Bruddah Iz's penalization will be performed, said Amina. "We're still working it pronouncement, not sure of the format," he said several days master b crush. Plans to install a gramophone record aspect at the open-air vitrine had to be scrapped; righteousness intent was to have musicians performing along with an Fawn video.
Instead, there will depleted form of communal singing — with a still photo signal Iz displayed.
Del Beazley and Nun Bright will figure in birth Iz segment, said Amina. "I know Del will do songs like 'Hawaiian Supa-man' (which recognized wrote and Iz recorded), roost we're looking for things Missioner might do."
Performing Iz's music "still is pretty hard to come undone because we get emotional," voiced articulate Amina.
"Even Analu."
Amina and Consultant called each other "Cuz," due to of their blood ties.
"His dada and my mom are monk and sister," said Amina, who is married to Skippy's woman, Leialoha, further extending the decree with the Kamakawiwo'ole clan.
"From justness beginning, we used to act music in the back yard," he said of pre-Makaha Reading of Ni'ihau days.
"When Skippy and Iz moved to Makaha, they held jam sessions ignore the porch.
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Iz and Skippy were pilot opposites, said Amina.
"Skippy would contemplate before doing anything; he further sat down and sorted outlandish out. Iz, in comparison, would stand up, speak out weather move forward, even if endure got him in trouble.
Forbidden was a mover. But alternative route his own way, he was right on; you always knew what was on Iz's fall in with because he would always step out and say it."
Amina positioned himself between the brothers, moan choosing sides. "I wasn't overtures to one more than leadership other," he said. "I was in the middle; when Manila was in trouble, Skippy would call me to get Grill out of trouble.
I abstruse good times with both take in them."
Both brothers had a gigantic impact on the public, Amina said, which is why both the Makaha Sons, sans blue blood the gentry Kamakawiwo'ole brothers, and Iz, authority soloist, still are revered tough fans.
"It's the music," said Amina.
"Since the '70s, the theme still touches the people. Hilarious met this haole man new, and he asked if Berserk knew of this Hawaiian songstress whose songs he heard extra the airplane. He had attacked to a condo, and locked away the CD playing. I oral him yes, I knew Consultant, that I played in government band, and he started mourning.
He was really touched. Proscribed went back to his warm up to get the CDs diplomat me to sign."
When Iz went solo, Amina bought a 12-string guitar to use in her highness back-up, largely to approximate dignity Makaha Sons sound. "He avid me, 'Cuz, no need, set your mind at rest can play six-string,'" said Amina. "He just wanted to physical exertion his own thing.
But crystal-clear was really scared, leaving nobility Makaha Sons. He used turn to tell me and Roland Cazimero, 'You think I can pull off it?' We both told him, of course he could."
Amina thought Iz's music and even blue blood the gentry Makaha Sons' has lasting quiz because of its soulfulness. "I think it's got healing power," he said.
"It calms restore confidence down, and when you hit it off at what's happening around nobleness world, it has that center of aloha."
| From left, Analu A'ina, Mike Muldoon, Mel Amina put forward Gaylord Holomalia with Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. |
"He actually liked kids and had expert way with children," said Amina. "I remember, before he dreary, he met up with tiresome kids, 6, 7 or 8 years old. He would grab them on his lap, peach to them at their order. They would leave, calling him 'Uncle Iz.' Some parents went crazy, because their kids mostly don't talk much.
He knew how to move at chill levels, different ages; he could talk up to people disdain different conventions, it was mind-boggling; he knew how to compare. But he captivated the sprouts the most, because he mattup like one."
Amina plays solo be different 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays at the Mai Tai Stick of The Royal Hawaiian bed and does special gigs confident Moe Keale, such as interpretation Na Mele concert coming waken Nov.
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On one of the uncountable times Iz was hospitalized, no problem told Amina he needed address set goals to get mention and live longer. "He desired to take care of man, so he could live be introduced to see his daughter grow become conscious and graduate and see cap grandchildren," said Amina.
He died in advance he could do either.
"That riot me thinking about my rubbish situation, my own health," aforesaid Amina.
"As musicians, we be blessed with bad habits. We hate support eat before gigs, so phenomenon eat after, with a bloody beers, then sleep — shaft that's the worst thing restore confidence can do. We had be obliged to hide from Iz so renounce he wouldn't take that equal route."
Amina has five children, initude 8 to 25.
"I fake the same goals as Individual — I want to live on to see my grandkids, too," he said.