Brother Noland is an American musician and author, known chiefly as a performer of

Hawaiian music The music of Hawaii includes an array of traditional and popular styles, ranging from native Hawaiian folk music to modern rock and hip hop. Styles like slack-key guitar are well known worldwide, while Hawaiian-tinged music is a frequent part ...

and slack-key guitar. Noland was raised in a musical family; his mother and brother were

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dancers, and he began playing music in clubs while still a teenager in the 1960s. Noland is known as the "Father of Jawaiian music",Brother Noland: Award-Winning Singer/Songwriter Shares his ‘Less Talk, More Do’ Philosophy
''Keola'', July–August 2018. and one of his best-known songs in this idiom is "Coconut Girl", which appeared on the soundtrack to the film ''

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''. Other songs which received airplay in Hawaii include "Pua Lane", "Are You Native?", and "Backfire". In 2014, the Hawaii State House of Representatives of the Twenty-Seventh Legislature passed H.R. 205 that recognized Brother Noland for a lifetime achievements and his impact on island music. As of 2017, he was touring and recording with a ten-piece band, the Brother Noland Conjugacion.Brother Noland: New CD, new band, three shows
''Hawaii Tribune-Herald'', December 28, 2017. His most recent album, ''His Songs His Stories His Style'', arrived in 2017. In 2019, he was honored by the Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts for the Lifetime Achievement Awards. Noland is also a published author and philanthropist. In 1999, he published ''Lessons of Aloha'', a collection of inspirational short stories. He runs a series of nature and subsistence-advocacy camps, principally on Molokai, and in 2013 published ''The Hawaiian Survival Handbook'', a guide to living off the land in Hawaiʻi.Surviving With Brother Noland
''Midweek'', August 19, 2014.

Discography

*''Speaking Brown'' (1980) *''Pacific Bad Boy'' (1983) *''Native News'' (1986) *''Reef Run Away'' (1988) *''Sun Daddy'' (1993) *''Hawaiian Inside'' (2000) *''Mystical Fish'' (2006) *''Hawaiian Man'' (2009) *''His Songs His Stories His Style'' (2017)

References

{{authority control American male guitarists American male singer-songwriters Singer-songwriters from Hawaii Mountain Apple Company artists