Aloha! My name's Ryo Sugimura.

I like listening to the music, and music helps my life a lot.

So, I will share you guys about the world music from today!

For this week, I'll  introduce the Hawaiian music. 

The Hawaiian music has an original musical style: an original rhythm, which is not included the other countries music, and it uses own musical instruments such as Ukulele and Steel Guitar.

As many people known as, the Hawaiian music is consists of a lot of musical genres such as Hula and Reggae. Above these genres, I would like to introduce about the Hawaiian wedding songs. 

Actually, there are approximately 200 Hawaiian wedding songs. 

Typical examples are “I will Weave a Lei of Stars for you”, which was written by Robert Cazimero, “White Sandy Beach” which was written by Willie Dann, and “To you Sweet Heart Aloha” which was written by Harry Owens, was the last song played at any Hawaii dance or night club.

Above these famous songs, I would like to introduce one of the most popular Hawaiian wedding songs, “Ke Kali Nei Au”, which was written by Charles E. King in 1926. 

Charles wrote the music with Hawaiian lyrics and titled it "Ke Kali Nei Au", which meant "Waiting Here for You". Afterward, in 1958, Al Hoffman and Dick Manning translated the Hawaiian lyrics into English christening the song. Not only the wedding in Hawaii, but also many European countries are using this song. 

Individually, I really like the tempo and rhythm of this music.

Hope I can use it someday…

Thank you for reading!