Pua almeida biography
Young Pua first performed at the age of 6 and turned professional at the age of Pua became a gifted guitarist and steel guitarist, with an exceptional tenor.
Almeida (sometimes given as "Alameida") was....
Twelve years ago to the week, when Ho’olohe Hou Radio was in the third week of its first incarnation as a podcast, the show quickly gained acclaimed among musicians in Hawai’i for a two-part, four-hour episode on the legendary Pua Almeida.
You see… Hawaiian musicians owe a debt to Pua for revolutionizing Hawaiian music, and yet few who don’t own an old-fashioned record player have ever heard his music. For while he was one of the most prolific recording artists ever, only about a half-dozen of the sides Pua Almeida cut have yet seen the light of day on a CD or MP3.
Flash forward a dozen years… While I should have been continuing work on the fifth reboot of Ho`olohe Hou Radio since its inception as a podcast on January 1, 2007, instead I spent much of this month perusing the reboot of the seminal book on Hawaiian music.
Originally published in 1979, Dr. George Kanahele’s “Hawaiian Music and Musicians” has been the bible for fans and students of Hawaiian music for over 30 years
