Post #363974 by naugatiki on Thu, Feb 28, 2008 7:33 AM

Ten years ago it use to be a ritual for me and my friends to walk to the hotel (I can't remember the name of it) she played at on early Thursday evening and see Auntie and her 2 backup singers in their big muumuus belt out those tunes. I was always mystified by the way she could hold those falsetto notes and after a few belts tried to duplicated the feat but she always beat me by a mile, sometimes she’d call one of her grandchildren up there to hula to her music. She always came across more authentic than most of the local acts back then (This was when Jawaiian was sort of big). But even in her 80’s she was so sharp I somehow thought she’d outlive me and be playing forever, another icon bites the dust, bummer.