George Kahumoku Jr. is a Grammy Award winning Hawaiian musician specializing in

slack-key guitar Slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian ''kī hōalu'', which means "loosen the uningkey") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii after Portuguese cowboys introduced Spanish guitars there in the late 19th century. The Hawaiian ...

. Born in Kona on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, he was labeled as "Hawaii's Renaissance Man" by Nona Beamer because of his far reaching talents: farmer, author, musician & composer, sculptor and artist, and Hawaiian cultural practicioner, particularly as it relates to the land or 'aina.''Maui Time Weekly''. He received the 2007

Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album The Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album was an honor presented to recording artists from 2005 to 2011 for quality Hawaiian music albums. The Grammy Awards, an annual ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone ...

for the compilation album ''Legends Of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar – Live From Maui'' and subsequently 2 more for ''Treasures of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar'' and ''Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, vol.2''. All of these compilation albums were recorded live at his Slack Key Show - Masters of Hawaiian Music show which opened in 2003 and is still operating after 19 years. It is the longest running weekly concert series in Hawaii featuring the best in slack key guitar as well as ukulele, steel, and falsetto. Daniel Ho and George Kahumoku Jr

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