Tau Moe

The influential career of Hawaiian steel guitarist Tau Moe and his wife and vocalist, Rose spanned more than six decades. While their early recordings with Madame Riviere's Hawaiians represent some of the oldest examples of traditional Hawaiian music on disc, they were brought out of retirement in the 1980s to record two albums with stringed-instrument player and musicologist Bob Brozeman. Tau and Rose Moe were teenagers when they left Hawaii in 1928 to work for Madame Riviere, a woman who had been sent by the French government to study Tahiti, then a French colony. Leaving Ri...