The Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album , in German "Grammy award for the best Hawaiian music album", is a music prize that was awarded from 2005 to 2011 by the American Recording Academy in the field of Hawaiian music .
Since 1959, the Grammy Awards are presented annually in numerous categories by the Recording Academy in the United States to recognize artistic achievement, technical competence, and overall outstanding performance regardless of album sales or chart position.
One of these categories was the Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album. The prize was awarded from 2005 to 2011.
For decades before the Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album was awarded, Hawaiian music lovers struggled with Hawaiian music recordings only being considered in the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album category . Proponents of a separate category included musicians, record labels, government officials, and the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Recording Academy in Seattle . No Hawaiian musician or band had received a Grammy before the Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album was founded . One obstacle to setting up the category was defining Hawaiian music and establishing the terms and conditions in terms of music style and language. There was conflict between traditional and western Hawaiian music, mostly involving the use of the slack key guitar , an instrument invented in Hawaii but commercialized in mainland America. According to the Recording Academy representative, Bill Freimuth, the category was designed “for more traditional recordings”. The use of the Hawaiian language to more than half of the time spoke of the inclusion of traditional music but also instrumental albums (like the one at the Grammy Awards 2005 excellent compilation album) were considered.
In the seven-year history of the Grammy category, Charles M. Brotman for Slack Key Guitar: Volume 2 , producers Daniel Ho, Paul Konwiser, and Wayne Wong for Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar: Volume One , the same production team, and George Kahumoku Jr. for Legends of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar: Live from Maui in 2007, followed by Treasures of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar in 2008 and Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar: Volume 2 in 2010, Tia Carrere and Daniel Ho for Ikena and Carrere awarded for Huana Ke Aloha in 2011. Eligible albums had to show the Hawaiian language on "more than half of the songs", but instrumental albums were also accepted. In addition to the performing artists, the sound engineers and / or producers were also honored.
Daniel Ho holds the record for the most wins, with five wins. The four winners include Paul Konwiser and Wayne Wong as producers. George Kahumoku Jr. received three awards as a producer and Tia Carrere received two awards as a performing artist. Ho also holds the record for the most nominations, with seven nominations. Amy Hānaialiʻi Gilliom holds the record for the most nominations without a win with five. Six of the seven Grammy-winning albums were released by the Daniel Ho Creations record label.
↑ The award went to Charles M. Brotman for the Hawaii-recorded slack-key guitar compilation album, which journalist Nate Chinen described as "an easy-to-listen instrumental collection apparently tailored to the tastes of the mainland."
↑ The prizes were given to Daniel Ho, George Kahumoku Jr., Konwiser, and Wong. Ho, Konwiser and Wong became the first multiple recipients in the category and the first consecutive award winners. Da Ukulele Boys musicians Peter deAquino, Richard Ho'opi'i, Kaapana and Garrett Probst, who all contributed live tracks to the album, performed with the producers to perform Hawaii Aloha a cappella for the audience and the award in To receive. Kahumoku's acceptance speech emphasized the importance of funding public art and music education and earned him a standing ovation from the audience.
↑ The prizes were given to Ho, Kahumoku, Konwiser, and Wong. Daniel Ho also received an award as the sound engineer on the compilation album, which was number twelve on the Billboard Top World Music Albums chart. This marked the third straight win for the production team to record live Maui's longstanding Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar concert series .
↑ Tia Carrere and Daniel Ho were recognized as performing artists, Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman and Daniel Ho as producers and sound engineers.
↑ This year, for the first time in the history of the category, all nominees were past nominations for Best Hawaiian Music Album - Hanaiali'i and Kaapana both received nominations in 2004 and 2006, Carrere was nominated in 2008, and Chris and Milton Lau were also nominated in 2006.