Alfred Apaka

Alfred Apaka

Infobox musical artist
Name = Alfred Apaka


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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Alfred Aiu Afat, Jr.
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Born = Birth date|1919|3|19
Honolulu, Hawaii
Died = death date and age|1960|1|30|1919|3|19
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Instrument = Voice, Bass
Voice_type = Baritone
Genre = Hawaiian
Traditional pop Hapa haole Standards
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Occupation = Singer
Years_active = 1940—1960
Label = Decca, Bell Records, Aloha Records, Capitol, Hawaiian Village, ABC-Paramount
Associated_acts = Hawaii Calls
Benny Kalama
Sonny Burke
Rosalie Stephenson
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Alfred Apaka (March 19 1919 - January 30 1960) was a celebrated American singer who possessed a romantic baritone voice. He was the singer who was most closely identified with Hawaii between the late 1940s and 1960. He is arguably the foremost interpreter of hapa-haole music which melded either Hawaiian music or traditional pop music with traditional pop arrangements and English lyrics that conveyed Hawaiian or other Pacific Island imagery and themes. He was of Chinese, Portuguese, and Hawaiian ancestry. [cite web | author= Berger, John | year= | title= The Magnetic Alfred Apaka | url= http://www.animalnetwork.com/hawaiimag/detail.aspx?aid=1110&cid=435&category= | accessdate=2008-06-21|publisher=Hawaii Magazine]

He died suddenly in 1960 and is remembered by a statue at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.Cite news|url=http://starbulletin.com/97/03/17/features/story1.html|title=Tribute to Alfred|accessdate=2007-08-16|publisher=Honolulu Star Bulletin|date=1997-03-17|author=Burlingame, Burl]

References

Further reading

*George S. Kanahele (1979) "Hawaiian Music and Musicians" (University of Hawaii Press)
*Tony Todaro (1974), "The Golden Years of Hawaiian Entertainment" (Tony Todaro Pub.)

External links

* [http://www.squareone.org/Hapa/apaka.html Square One: Alfred Apaka]
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