Brother Noland is an American musician and author, known chiefly as a performer of Hawaiian music and slack-key guitar.
Noland was raised in a musical family; his mother and brother were hula dancers, and he began playing music in clubs while still a teenager in the 1960s.[1]
Noland is known as the "Father of Jawaiian music",[1] and one of his best-known songs in this idiom is "Coconut Girl", which appeared on the soundtrack to the film Pineapple Express.[1] Other songs which received airplay in Hawaii include "Pua Lane", "Are You Native?",[2] and "Backfire".[3] In 2014, the Hawaii State House of Representatives of the Twenty-Seventh Legislature passed H.R. 205 that recognized Brother Noland for a lifetime achievements and his impact on island music.[4] As of 2017, he was touring and recording with a ten-piece band, the Brother Noland Conjugacion.[2] His most recent album, His Songs His Stories His Style, arrived in 2017.[5][6] In 2019, he was honored by the Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts for the Lifetime Achievement Awards.[7]
Noland is also a published author and philanthropist. In 1999, he published Lessons of Aloha, a collection of inspirational short stories.[8] He runs a series of nature and subsistence-advocacy camps, principally on Molokai, and in 2013 published The Hawaiian Survival Handbook, a guide to living off the land in Hawaiʻi.[9]
Discography edit
- Speaking Brown (1980)
- Pacific Bad Boy (1983)
- Native News (1986)
- Reef Run Away (1988)
- Sun Daddy (1993)
- Hawaiian Inside (2000)
- Mystical Fish (2006)
- Hawaiian Man (2009)
- His Songs His Stories His Style (2017)
References edit
- ^ a b c Brother Noland: Award-Winning Singer/Songwriter Shares his ‘Less Talk, More Do’ Philosophy. Keola, July–August 2018.
- ^ a b Brother Noland: New CD, new band, three shows. Hawaii Tribune-Herald, December 28, 2017.
- ^ The 25 Greatest Hawai‘i Songs of the New Century. Honolulu Magazine, October 29, 2015.
- ^ House of Representatives, State of Hawaii (2014). "House Resolution: Recognizing Brother Noland for a lifetime achievements and his impact on island music" (PDF). Hawaii State Legislature. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
- ^ Brother Noland. KAPA Hawaiian FM, November 15, 2017.
- ^ "50th State of Mind" to Feature Brother Noland, John Cruz, Kalapana. KHON-TV, July 20, 2018.
- ^ Berger, John (October 24, 2019). "Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts honorees look back at lives of achievement". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
- ^ Brother Noland’s book offers reminders of aloha spirit. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, August 21, 2005.
- ^ Surviving With Brother Noland. Midweek, August 19, 2014.