MAPA was founded in 1974 as the Maui Youth Theater by Linda Takita (daughter of Frankie Yankovic).
The Slovenian polka master, Frankie Yankovic, has had perhaps more crossover success than these other stars; his period of greatest popularity was in the 1940s.
At first Slovenian style polka was just music for ethnic clubs and union halls, but the commercial success of Frankie Yankovic (Jankovič) and other musicians soon introduced the genre to a wider audience.
"Weird Al" Yankovic | Frankie Howerd | Frankie Laine | Frankie Boyle | Frankie Goes to Hollywood | Frankie Knuckles | Frankie J | Frankie Valli | Frankie Sandford | Frankie Muniz | Frankie Edgar | Frankie Cutlass | Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune | Frankie Negrón | Frankie Frisch | Frankie Avalon | Frankie Sheahan | Frankie Ruiz | Frankie Randall | Frankie Miller | Frankie Fraser | Frankie | Frankie Yankovic | Frankie Paul | Frankie Kao | Frankie Dean | Frankie & Benny's | Frankie Smith | Frankie Sloan | Frankie Osborne |