Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 21, Number 12, 1 Kekemapa 2004 — Kamakele "Bulla" Kaʻiliwai -- Nā Hulukūpuna Ululoa Productions [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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Kamakele "Bulla" Kaʻiliwai -- Nā Hulukūpuna Ululoa Productions

Bulla Ka'iliwai first gained notoriety in 1997 when he won the Kindy Sproat Story Telling and Falsetto contest. Nā Hulukūpuna , his follow-up album to Kamakele . features

songs he chose to honor his kūpuna and reflects his spiritual connection to ancestral places. Throughout the album Ka'iliwai, the grandson of slack-key legend Raymond Kāne, shares his own kī ho'alu style, as well as his beautiful falsetto.