On the scene with singer Tavana McMoore
Tavana McMoore — known professionally as Tavana — was 12 when he met the guitarist who changed his life. Read more
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On the Scene with Georja Skinner
Twenty-six years later, Skinner, 68, is the chief officer of the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism’s Creative Industries Division and the founder of its Creative Lab Hawaii program. Read more
On the Scene with Jake Shimabukuro
Jake Shimabukuro began playing the ukulele when he was 4. His first teacher was his mother. Several years later he took lessons at Roy Sakuma’s ukulele studio in Kaimuki. Read more
On the Scene with Henry Kapono
Just last weekend, the multi-Hoku Award-winning artist resumed his 27-year Sunday afternoon engagement at Duke’s Waikiki at the Outrigger Waikiki Beach Resort. Read more
On the Scene: Chauncy Bermodez
Sixteen years later, Bermodez, 42, and the father of five, returned full force as a solo recording artist on Tuesday when Revive The Live released his new download-only single, “This Place We Call Home.” Read more
On the Scene: Samantha Neyland
Samantha Neyland was born while her father was stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. She’d lived in several states, and in Spain and Japan, by the time her dad was transferred to Hawaii. Read more
On the Scene: Hawaii musician Dean Taba
Dean Taba was committed to the French horn until the McKinley High School music program started an after-school big band. The band couldn’t use a French horn but needed someone to play bass. Read more
On the scene with Eden Lee Murray
Eden Lee Murray grew up in Kansas City, Mo., watching her mother perform with the Community Childrens Theatre. Murray was 4 when her mother asked her to pull the curtain open to start a performance. Read more
On the scene with Amy Hill of ‘Magnum P.I.’
Amy Hill was born in South Dakota, graduated from high school in Seattle, and established herself as a stage actor with the Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco. Television audiences discovered her in 1994 when she played Grandma Kim in Margaret Cho’s landmark sitcom, “All-American Girl.” Hill has worked steadily in television and film ever since. Read more
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On the scene with Magnolia Basoc
Magnolia Basoc was 12, the youngest of three sisters, when her parents — Adelfa and Nicomedes Basoc — moved their family of five from Davao City in the southern Philippines to live in a single rented room in her uncle’s house in Honolulu. Read more
On the scene with Kimo Keaulana
Kimo Alana Keaulana grew up in Honolulu speaking Hawaiian at a time when most Native Hawaiians outside Niihau only spoke English. Read more
On the Scene: Rolando Sanchez
Rolando Sanchez was a teenager when his grandmother completed the paperwork required to bring him and his family to join her in the United States. Read more
On the Scene with Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival director Brent Anbe
Hawaii born and raised, a graduate of McKinley High School and the Univeristy of Hawaii at Manoa, Brent Anbe decided early that he wanted to work in the film industry. Read more
On the Scene with Siena Agudong of Disney’s ‘Upside-Down Magic’
Siena Agudong was 7 years old when she auditioned for a production of “Willy Wonka, The Musical” by the Hawaii’s Children’s Theatre on Kauai. Read more
On the Scene with Hawaii Youth Symphony’s Matin Boulos, Emi Horii, Sewon Park and Stephanie Yoshida
Four members of the Hawaii Youth Symphony were chosen to go to New York for Carnegie Hall’s NYO2 program before the coronavirus pandemic ended the trip. Read more
On the Scene with Roger Bong of Aloha Got Soul
Roger Bong was 8 years old when the Veterans Administration brought his father to Hawaii to do design work at Tripler in 1995. Read more
On the Scene with Roy Sakuma
Roy Sakuma discovered his days as a Roosevelt High School student were over when the principal told him, “One of us has to go, and it’s not me.” Read more
On the Scene with Jason Zambuto
Jason Zambuto begins his new position as Reyn Spooner’s Hawaii-based head of retail sales Monday. Read more
On the Scene with Terri Madden
Although Terri Madden and her husband built successful full-time careers in real estate, she’s enjoyed a parallel career in theater as an actor, director, playwright and stagehand. Read more
On the Scene: Hawaii author Sara Ackerman discusses new novel ‘Red Sky Over Hawaii’
Sara Ackerman’s newest novel, “Red Sky Over Hawaii,” will be officially released on Tuesday. Read more
On the Scene with Nito Larioza
Nito Larioza was the stunt coordinator and dance choreographer for “Breakarate” (2017), which premiered May 22 on Amazon Prime. Read more
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