Owana Salazar

Owana Salazar
Owana Salazar
	Salazar in 1990
Background information
Birth name	Owana Kaʻōhelelani Mahealani-Rose Salazar
Born	30 October 1953 (age 70); Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, United States
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Steel guitar

Owana Kaʻōhelelani Mahealani-Rose Salazar (born October 30, 1953) is an American musician and activist. She is thought to be the only female steel guitar player in Hawaiʻi trained by Jerry Byrd.^[1]

A descendant of Robert William Wilcox and Theresa Laʻanui, Salazar has been involved in Hawaiian sovereignty issues for many years.

Birth, family and early life

Owana Kaʻohelelani Mahealani-Rose Salazar was born in October 1953. Her parents were Helena Kalokuokamaile Wilcox and Henry Mario Salazar.^{[citation needed]}

Salazar was the only girl in a family of five. "Our family discussions were vast... about many of our ancestors, about their roles in Hawaiiʻs history, about the crown lands, about Robert Wilcox, about Princess Theresa going to Washington, about Princess Elizabeth going to Washington to petition Congress to survey the crown lands."^[2]

Salazar was raised on the island of Oahu and graduated from Kamehameha Schools, where she sang with the Concert Glee Club,^[2] and the University of Hawaii,^[1] where she learned Kihoʻalu (slack key guitar). Salazar studied hula with the Kumu Hula, Hoʻakalei Kamauʻu, Hoʻoulu Richards and Winona Beamer.^[3] In addition to studying traditional western music theory, studied voice with Elizabeth Cole, and studied piano, string methods, guitar, Javanese dance and gamelan as well as continuing to study hula.^[3]

Music career

At the start of her public career, Salazar performed with Hawaiian headliners such as Don Ho^[3] Ohta-San, Ed Kenney and Charles K.L. Davis.^[1] She was introduced to the world of Kihoʻalu by friend Nelson Hiu. Combining music theory with her repertoire of Hawaiian songs and slack key, Salazar developed her playing skills with help from her professors and other fellow musicians such as George Kuo, Bla Pahinui, Cyril Pahinui, Dennis Kamakahi, George Kahumoku Jr. and Sonny Chillingworth. Other musical influences include Joni Mitchell, Johnny Mathis, Connie Francis, Stevie Wonder, Genoa Keawe, Gabby Pahinui, Lena Machado, and Marvin Gaye.^[3]

Her first recording in 1986, Owana and Kaʻipo, In Kona was nominated in the category of Most Promising Artist in the Na Hoku Hanohano Awards, a Hawaiian music industry salute. The following year, her second recording, Owana, was a final ballot nominee for Contemporary Hawaiian Album of the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year. Pupukea describes the characteristics of the ocean on the North Shore of Oʻahu. Kula Morning takes you upcountry Maui, gazing from mountain to the sea. "Na Wai" is a playful poetic expression of love's experiences, full of Hawaiian kaona (hidden meanings). "Kalamaula" celebrates the early homesteading movement of the Hawaiian people. "Silhouette Hula" is a hapa haole piece, recalling the early jazz years of Hawaiian music.

For most of the 1980s, Salazar sang Hawaiian classics with the Royal Hawaiian Band and performed at venues in Waikiki and Japan. Jerry Byrd accepted Salazar as his student for formal study of Hawaiian steel guitar. Eventually, she received a full scholarship from the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association. In 1992, she became Byrd's only female graduate and has been called Hawaii's preeminent female steel guitarist. Besides Hawaii, Salazar has also performed in Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, and the Americas. In January 2000, she became the first woman to tour with the Hawaiian Slack Key Festival along with George Kahumoku, Jr., Keoki Kahumoku and Daniel Ho.

Discography (partial)

"Owana and Ka'ipo IN KONA" (1986), Nominated: Most Promising Artist of the Year.
Owana (1987), Nominated: Female Vocalist of the Year; Contemporary Hawaiian Album of the Year.
Wahine Slack n’ Steel (2003), Winner: Contemporary Hawaiian Album of the Year. Nominated: Female Vocalist of the Year; Album of the Year.
Hula Jazz (2005), Winner: Jazz Album of the Year; Nominated: Female Vocalist of the Year; Album of the Year; Song of the Year
Hawaiian Slack Key Masters: Volume III, Winner: Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album
Hawaiian Slack Key Masters: Volume IV, Winner: Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album

Cultural and sovereignty involvement

Salazar was initiated into the Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors, Mamakakaua, a lineage society of descendants of Hawaii's ruling chiefs.^[4] She served as family liaison to the Mayor's Office of Culture and the Arts for two years, with the goal of planning, commissioning and unveiling a life-size bronze statue of her great-grandfather Robert William Wilcox.^{[citation needed]} His statue was installed at Wilcox Park in downtown Honolulu, on the corner of King and Fort Street.^{[citation needed]}

Claim to the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom

Salazar rejects the legality of the 1898 annexation of Hawaii by the United States, and as such believes the Hawaiian Kingdom still legally exists.^[2] Dismissing the succession right of Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa, Salazar maintains that her own immediate family are rightful rulers of the kingdom, as well as being the legal holders of the former Hawaiian crown lands. This claim is based on descent from King Keōua (d.ca. 1750s/60s) via a niece of Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau (d. 1928), one of 15 children of high aliʻi status attending the Chief's Children's School in 1844 who appear on a list, endorsed by Kamehameha III. However, genealogist Edith McKenzie stated that of those eligible to be rulers, "Everyone on the Chiefs Children's School list was eligible to rule, but it was required that those who did had to be considered and approved by the House of Nobles. Only Kamehameha IV and Emma Rooke ever were."^[2]

Honours

Dynastic Orders

Foreign Royal Houses

Dame Grand Cordon of the Royal and Hashemite Order of the Pearl^[5]

Family tree

Key: Subjects with bold titles and blue bold box = Aliʻi line. Bold title and grey bolded box = Lower ranking Aliʻi line. Bold title and un-bolded box = European nobility. Regular name and box = makaʻāinana or untitled foreign subject.

Keōua^[i]

Kahikikalaokalani^[i]

Kekuʻiapoiwa II^[i]

Kalokuokamaile^[i]

Kaloiokalani^[i]

Kaʻahumanu

Kamehameha I^[i]

Kalākua Kaheiheimālie

Kaohele^[i]

Nuhi^[i]

Jean Baptiste Rives

Holau II

Makole (k)

Haupa (w)

Namahana Piia (w)

Gideon Peleioholani Laanui^[i]
1797–1849
né Laʻanui

Theresa Owana Kaheiheimalie Reeves^[i]

Captain William Slocum Wilcox
1814–1910

Kalua
1836–1865

Gideon Kailipalaki Laanui^[i]
1840–1871

Elizabeth Kamaikaopa

Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau Laʻanui Pratt^[i]
1834–1928
née Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau

Gina Sobrero-Wilcox
1863-1912
(née Baroness Gina Sobrero)

Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox^[i]
(November 5, 1850 - October 30, 1919)^[ii]

Theresa Owana Kaʻohelelani Laʻanui^[i]

Alexander Joy Cartwright III^[i]

Elmer Miller^[iii]

Makalike

Robert Kalanikupuapaikalaninui Keōua Wilcox^[i]

Helen Kaleipuanani Simerson Wilburton^[i]

John Kilioe Miller^[i]
May 26, 1896 - April 20, 1969^[iv]

Virginia Kahoa Kaʻahumanu Kaihikapumahana Wilcox^[i]^[v]

Elizabeth Kaʻakaualaninui Wilcox^[i]

Daisy Emmalani Napulahaokalani Cartwright^[i]

Eva Kuwailanimamao Cartwright^[i]

Henry Mario Salazar

Helena Kalokuokamaile Wilcox Salazar-Machado^[i]
April 13, 1917 – September 17, 1988
(née Wilcox)

Henry Machado, Sr.

Henry C. Keaweikekahialiiokamoku Salazar

Paul C. Kalokuokamaile Salazar

Michael Carl Kauhiokalani Salazar

Stephen Craig Laanui Salazar

Owana Kaohelelani Mahealani-Rose Salazar

Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w Hawaiian Native Claims Settlement Study Commission, Exhibit B, Genealogy Descent from the Kamehameha Royal Family .^[α]
^ Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age lists Wilcox's full birth and death dating.^[β]
^ Marriage license of Jno K. Kilioe Miller to Virginia K. Wilcox list E.O Miller as father and Makalike as mother of Jno.^[γ]
^ United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918.^[δ]
^ Hawaii Marriages, 1826-1922.^[ε]

^ United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Resources (1977). Hawaiian Native Claims Settlement Study Commission. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 119–122. ASIN B003AILJ68.
^ Leonard C. Schlup; James Gilbert Ryan (2003). Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age. M.E. Sharpe. p. 538. ISBN 978-0-7656-2106-1.
^ Marriage license of Jno Miller to Virginia K. Wilcox, E. O. Miller in entry for Jno. K. Miller and Virginia K. Wilcox, 11 Jun 1916; citing Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, reference 12495B; FHL microfilm 1,711,737. "E.O.Miller". Family Search. Territory of Hawaii. Retrieved 4 September 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Draft card, John K Miller, 1917-1918; citing Honolulu City no 1, Hawaii, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,452,096. "John K. Miller". Family Search. Territory of Hawaii. Retrieved 4 September 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Marriage license, Jno. K. Miller and Virginia K. Wilcox, 11 Jun 1916; citing Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, reference 12495B; FHL microfilm 1,711,737. "Virginia K. Wilcox". Family Search. Territory of Hawaii. Retrieved 4 September 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Lorene Ruymar (1996). The Hawaiian Steel Guitar and Its Great Hawaiian Musicians. Centerstream Publications. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-57424-021-4.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Boylan, Dan (August 7–13, 1998). "Battle Royal". Midweek. Honolulu. Archived from the original on December 13, 2010. Retrieved November 19, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "pasifika-artists.com". Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
^ Council of the County of Maui (March 11, 2013). "POLICY AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE MINUTES". Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
^ "Royal and Hashemite Order of the Pearl". Archived from the original on 2020-10-10. Retrieved 2020-10-05.

External links

YouTube – Owana Kaʻōhelelani Kahekili Mahaelani-Rose Salazar. Willie K, "Knight Commander of the Royal Order of the Crown"
Keouanui.org

[Native_Claims-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w Hawaiian Native Claims Settlement Study Commission, Exhibit B, Genealogy Descent from the Kamehameha Royal Family .^[α]

[9] Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age lists Wilcox's full birth and death dating.^[β]

[11] Marriage license of Jno K. Kilioe Miller to Virginia K. Wilcox list E.O Miller as father and Makalike as mother of Jno.^[γ]

[13] United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918.^[δ]

[15] Hawaii Marriages, 1826-1922.^[ε]

[6] United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Resources (1977). Hawaiian Native Claims Settlement Study Commission. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 119–122. ASIN B003AILJ68.

[8] Leonard C. Schlup; James Gilbert Ryan (2003). Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age. M.E. Sharpe. p. 538. ISBN 978-0-7656-2106-1.

[10] Marriage license of Jno Miller to Virginia K. Wilcox, E. O. Miller in entry for Jno. K. Miller and Virginia K. Wilcox, 11 Jun 1916; citing Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, reference 12495B; FHL microfilm 1,711,737. "E.O.Miller". Family Search. Territory of Hawaii. Retrieved 4 September 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[12] Draft card, John K Miller, 1917-1918; citing Honolulu City no 1, Hawaii, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,452,096. "John K. Miller". Family Search. Territory of Hawaii. Retrieved 4 September 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[14] Marriage license, Jno. K. Miller and Virginia K. Wilcox, 11 Jun 1916; citing Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, reference 12495B; FHL microfilm 1,711,737. "Virginia K. Wilcox". Family Search. Territory of Hawaii. Retrieved 4 September 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[Ruymar1996-1] Lorene Ruymar (1996). The Hawaiian Steel Guitar and Its Great Hawaiian Musicians. Centerstream Publications. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-57424-021-4.

[battle-2] Boylan, Dan (August 7–13, 1998). "Battle Royal". Midweek. Honolulu. Archived from the original on December 13, 2010. Retrieved November 19, 2010.

[Pasifika-3] "pasifika-artists.com". Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved January 11, 2016.

[4] Council of the County of Maui (March 11, 2013). "POLICY AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE MINUTES". Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved June 11, 2018.

[5] "Royal and Hashemite Order of the Pearl". Archived from the original on 2020-10-10. Retrieved 2020-10-05.

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