Kui Lee
Kui Lee
Latest Release
- mama's cookin'
- May 2025
- • 1 Song
Top Songs
| 1 | The Days of My Youth | ||
| 2 | I'll Remember You | ||
| 3 | If I Had It to Do All Over Again | ||
| 4 | Goin' Home | ||
| 5 | Ka Makani Ka 'Ili Aloha |
Albums
Aug 2020 • 5 songs
Jan 2020 • 1 song
Jan 2020 • 1 song
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About
Biography
The Lenny Bruce of Hawaii -- if more benign and loved -- Kui Lee died young of cancer, leaving behind a legacy of poetry and song that ushered in a hip, new Hawaii. Don Ho popularized and made hits out of many of his songs. Jack de Mello created a delightful, very strange 3-LP box tribute including narrative script by Robert Maxwell, then-editor of the Honolulu Beacon. Kuiokalani Lee was born July 31, 1932 in Shanghai, China to parents Billy and Ethel Lee, both entertainers themselves; he was brought to Hawaii at age five. First entering show business as a knife dancer and cho...