Facing Future - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Description: Genre: World Music / Artist: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole / Audio CD released 2004-12-20 at Big Boy / Disc #1 ... more

Facing Future - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole ... Tracklisting
1 Hawaii '78
2 Ka Huila Wai
3 Ama Ama
4 Panini Pua Kei
5 Take Me Home Country Road
6 Kuhio Bay
7 Ka Pua U'i
8 White Sandy Beach Of Hawaii
9 Henehene Kou 'Aka
10 La 'Elima
11 Pili Me Ka'u Manu
12 Maui Hawaiian Sup'pa Man
13 Kaulana Kawaihae
14 Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World
15 Hawaii '78

Newest Review: ... moves from one language to the other and back. I must say, I do not understand a single word of the Hawaiian language but it ... more

... has not actually bothered me that I cannot understand what the songs are about. The voice of Israel makes up for it more than you can imagine. For a moment you might think you are listening to ‘one man and his ukulele’. Very rarely will you find more than just those two ingredients in the songs. Does it matter? No, not at all. Most of the time you won’t even realise that there are no other singers or instruments/orchestra. You will just concentrate on the warm voice that sings all these songs where you may not und...more

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Facing Future - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole: Somewhere Over The Rainbow - When he sang people listened .. ... (1715 words)
by - written on 31/07/06 (Very useful, 18721 readings)
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You may not know the name of this singer (let alone how to pronounce it) but you will most certainly know at least one of his songs – or rather his rendition of it. Unless you lived under a stone for the past 10 years you must have come across the simple yet chilling version of “Over The Rainbow”. It has been used in movies (Meet Joe Black, 50 First Dates, Finding Forrester), television programmes (usually when someone’s dying e.g. Dr Mark Greene in E.R. and there won’t be a dry eye in the house) and adverts across the world. You know the song I mean, the one with just one man singing accompanied by a solitary ukulele. I can’t remember when I ... Read the complete review