Composer ("Song of the Islands" ["Na Lei O Hawaii"]), author, legislator and educator, educated in public schools and at the Oswego State Normal School. He was a leader in musical education in Hawaii and an authority on Hawaiian songs, and taught in the Kamahemeha Schools and in public schools. Also, he was an inspector of schools for the Territory of Hawaii, and conductor of the Royal Hawaiian Band. In the early 1920s, he served as a senator on the Hawaiian legislature. Joining ASCAP in 1940, h...
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