![]() ![]() He was only beginning to enjoy that success when he died of respiratory failure in 1997, at just 38 years old. Another song of hope, Over the Rainbow, also appears here as it does on Facing Future (1993), albeit with What a Wonderful World edited out. ![]() ![]() session a full five years before its 1993 release, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" redefined a classic and helped Iz's Facing Future album sell more than a million copies to become the best-selling Hawaiian album ever. With this series of intersecting vignettes, Inio Asano explores the ways in which modern life can be ridiculous and sublime, terrible and precious, wasted and celebrated. But Iz had his greatest commercial success with a mellifluous, ukulele-accompanied medley that joined the timeless yearning of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow” to the Louis Armstrong standard "What a Wonderful World". 1 Paperback Digital Actual prices may vary +45 A dream recaptured. Iz struck out on his own with 1990’s Ka 'Ano'I (The Desirable One), the first of a small handful of solo albums that combined island classics like his spirited hit "Henehene Kou 'Aka" (Your Laughter Is So Contagious), anthems promoting Hawaiian sovereignty, reggae-infused "Jawaiian" grooves, and mega-mellow versions of country classics like John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads". His voice became famous outside Hawaii when his album Facing Future was released in 1993. As a founding member of Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau, he joined other young islanders bringing traditional Hawaiian music to the forefront with acoustic stringed instruments and angelic laidback male harmonies. Israel Kaanoi Kamakawiwoole (translation: The Fearless Eyed Man) ( June 26, 1997), also called Bruddah Iz or IZ, was a Native Hawaiian singer-songwriter, musician, and Hawaiian sovereignty activist. Born in Honolulu in 1959, Iz learned to play the ukulele at age six by 11, he was performing hapa haole (half-foreign) music for tourists with his older brother Skippy. It also highlights the origins of their parents George Osmond and Olive Davis from as early as World War II. Iz is a awesome Hawaiian Folk singer, his singing style is beautiful, & fun to sing along with, almost anyone can enjoy it, & I can feel through the tone of his. In fewer than four decades, Hawaiian singer/songwriter Israel Kamakawiwo'ole-known simply as "Iz" to his fans-would come to define Hawaiian music for islanders and mainlanders alike. The film focuses on the early life of the Osmond Brothers and how they became successful musicians. ![]()
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