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3 unusual facts about Helen Desha Beamer


Helen Desha Beamer

In 1928, her duet of the Hawaiian Wedding Song with Sam Kapu on Columbia Records was the first commercial recording of the Charles E. King composition .

In 1928, she and artist Sam Kapu made the first commercial recording of the Hawaiian Wedding Song, which had been written by composer Charles E. King as "Ke Kali Nei Au".

Keola Beamer

His great grandmother was Helen Desha Beamer, an influential songwriter and hula dancer, and his mother, Winona Beamer ("Auntie Nona") has been one of the most important figures in the revival of Hawaiian culture since the 1940s: composer, dancer, educator, and coiner of the term "Hawaiiana," which describes the cultural-studies area she pioneered at the Kamehameha Schools.



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