Kuana Torres Kahele

Singer, composer, guitarist and educator Kuana Torres Kahele is one of Hawaiian music's most popular artists. With a style steeped in everything from hula and traditional folk music to jazz and swing to country and western, his smooth tenor voice (and silky falsetto), and call and response choruses inhabit his weave of traditional and modern instruments, Kahele has forged his own path through Hawaii's musical history -- particularly in hula music -- coming up with a sound distinctly his own. Kahele began studying music in Hilo on the Island of Hawaii, learning to play traditi...