Auntie Genoa Keawe (by colleeninhawaii)

September 29, 2007 Performing professionally 4 weeks before her 89th birthday.
Aunty Genoa Keawe was an icon in Hawaiian music, with her unrivalled falsetto technique, bell-like yodeling, and her trademark ability to hold high notes for over two minutes which she included in a repertoire of traditional Hawaiian standards and Hapa Haole tunes alike, she is without equal. In the year 2000, Genoa Keawe was honored with the nation’s highest honor in folk and traditional arts, the National Heritage Fellowship, presented in a Washington D. C. ceremony by the National Endowment for the Arts.