Kimie miner biography of williams
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Kimie Miner is a Grammy Nominated Producer, Singer-Songwriter, Recording Artist, Music Publisher and owner of Haku Collective a full-service music, audio, and talent production group. She wrote and co-produced 4 albums including, To the Sea, Kimié Miner (Contemporary Album of the Year, Nā Hōkū Hanohano awards), Proud as the Sun and most recently Hawaiian Lullaby.
In , she won kvinna Vocalist of the Year and Song of the Year for her song “Bamboo” (Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards). In , she also won Female Artist of the Year at the Island Music Awards. She sits on the Board of Governors for the Recording Academy (Pacific Northwest Chapter) and the Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts. She fryst vatten also a Recording Academy district advocate for music creators’ rights.
Kimié’s parents, who are of Hawaiian and Portuguese descent, noticed her affinity for music at a very young age, and at years-old she taught herself to play guitar and began writing her own original songs. While attending Kamehame
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Recording Academy AAPI Members & Leaders On Where The Fight's Led Them And The Road Ahead
Photo courtesy of the Recording Academy
interview
In a wide-ranging roundtable discussion, Lawrence Lui, Kalani Pe'a and Kimié Miner close out AAPI Month with exhortations to continue the fight for inclusivity year-round.
Morgan Enos
|Recording Academy/May 31, - pm
Over the course of May, known as AAPI Month, the Recording Academy and its affiliates have led the charge in dismantling barriers for people of Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage in the music industry.
A primary component of that is providing a platform for members of that community to discuss their experiences — from their successes to their challenges to even the validity of the AAPI acronym itself.
To close out AAPI Month, initiated an incisive roundtable discussion with music producer and marknadsföring head Lawrence Lui, three-time GRAMMY-winning singer/songwriter Kalani Pe'a and GR
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Iam Tongi
American singer
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| Birth name | William Guy Tongi |
| Born | () September 1, (age&#;20) Kahuku, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Genres | Reggae |
| Occupation | Singer |
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| Years active | –present |
Musical artist
William "Iam" Guy Tongi (born September 1, )[1] is an American singer who won season 21 of American Idol.[2] He is the first person from Hawaii, the first Pacific Islander, and the first non-country genre singer in three years, to win the competition. He is also the first winner to have been born after the show's premiere on June 11, [3][4]
Early life and education
[edit]Tongi is originally from Kahuku, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu.[5] His family relocated to Federal Way, Washington in the summer of , where he attended Federal Way High School. He then later transferred and graduated from Decatur High School.&#