Sonny Cunha, full name Albert Richard Cunha (October 1, 1879 – January 23, 1933) was an American composer, bandleader, pianist, singer, politician and entrepreneur. He was the first to popularize hapa haole music, a type of Hawaiian music with influences from popular music and with lyrics that are a combination of English and Hawaiian (or wholly English).
SonnyCunha, full name Albert Richard Cunha (October 1, 1879 – January 23, 1933) was an American composer, bandleader, pianist, singer, politician and...
Edwin Bradfield Liloa Chillingworth, Jr., known as Sonny Chillingworth, (July 14, 1932 – August 24, 1994) was an American guitarist and singer. Widely...
from Hawaii Albert "Sonny" Cunha (1879–1933), Hawaiian composer Sonny Curtis (born 1937), country and pop singer-songwriter Sonny Digital (born 1991)...
Lena Machado Mary Kawena Pukui Victoria K. I`i Rodrigues 1996 Albert "Sonny" Cunha Sol Hoʻopiʻi Alvin Kaleolani Isaacs Haunani Kahalewai Mekia Kealakaʻi...
is called hapa haole (literally: half white) music. In 1903, Albert "Sonny" Cunha composed My Waikiki Mermaid, arguably the first popular hapa haole song...
Lena Machado Mary Kawena Pukui Victoria K. I`i Rodrigues 1996 Albert "Sonny" Cunha Sol Hoʻopiʻi Alvin Kaleolani Isaacs Haunani Kahalewai Mekia Kealakaʻi...
Castro Ryan Choi Jacob Collier Zach Condon (Beirut) Frank Crumit Albert "Sonny" Cunha Cavetown Charley Yang (Commonly known as BoyWithUke ) J. Chalmers Doane...
at Waikiki" (words, G.H. Stover; music, Henry Kailimai; arrangement, SonnyCunha; 1915), which was widely performed on the vaudeville circuits in the...
Lena Machado Mary Kawena Pukui Victoria K. I`i Rodrigues 1996 Albert "Sonny" Cunha Sol Hoʻopiʻi Alvin Kaleolani Isaacs Haunani Kahalewai Mekia Kealakaʻi...
Lena Machado Mary Kawena Pukui Victoria K. I`i Rodrigues 1996 Albert "Sonny" Cunha Sol Hoʻopiʻi Alvin Kaleolani Isaacs Haunani Kahalewai Mekia Kealakaʻi...
Discography of American Historical Recordings". DAHR. UC Santa Barbara. "SonnyCunha". HMHF. Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved April...
music (native music as interpreted by foreigners) which was developed by SonnyCunha and Johnny Noble, and he enjoyed significant commercial success with...
Lena Machado Mary Kawena Pukui Victoria K. I`i Rodrigues 1996 Albert "Sonny" Cunha Sol Hoʻopiʻi Alvin Kaleolani Isaacs Haunani Kahalewai Mekia Kealakaʻi...
Lena Machado Mary Kawena Pukui Victoria K. I`i Rodrigues 1996 Albert "Sonny" Cunha Sol Hoʻopiʻi Alvin Kaleolani Isaacs Haunani Kahalewai Mekia Kealakaʻi...
recording. It is a hapa-haole song, composed by two other famous Hawaiians, SonnyCunha and Johnny Noble. The lyrics can be heard as a paean to ʻōkolehao: 'Oh...
Lena Machado Mary Kawena Pukui Victoria K. I`i Rodrigues 1996 Albert "Sonny" Cunha Sol Hoʻopiʻi Alvin Kaleolani Isaacs Haunani Kahalewai Mekia Kealakaʻi...
Moana. Richard E. Cunha (1922-2005), was an American cinematographer and film director. Cunha's father was Albert "Sonny" Cunha, an American songwriter...
Lena Machado Mary Kawena Pukui Victoria K. I`i Rodrigues 1996 Albert "Sonny" Cunha Sol Hoʻopiʻi Alvin Kaleolani Isaacs Haunani Kahalewai Mekia Kealakaʻi...
Lena Machado Mary Kawena Pukui Victoria K. I`i Rodrigues 1996 Albert "Sonny" Cunha Sol Hoʻopiʻi Alvin Kaleolani Isaacs Haunani Kahalewai Mekia Kealakaʻi...
Manuel "Joe Gang" Kupahu, but the group eventually expanded to include Sonny Chillingworth, younger-generation players Peter Moon and Randy Lorenzo,...
created to celebrate 94 year old Tapia's life. Tapia was an associate of SonnyCunha and played with the Johnny Noble Band at the opening of the Royal Hawaiian...
part-time as a drummer at several theaters before meeting SonnyCunha, a well known Honolulu musician. Cunha was born in 1879, also in Honolulu, and developed...
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