Ukulele paula fuga biography
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Paula Fuga Brings Joy Through Music
As Paula Fuga introduced herself as an artist and songwriter from Hawaii, a young boy in the back row perked up. She continued introducing herself and explained that today she was going to teach them a song she wrote for her nieces when they were going through a hard time. The boy got up and moved to the front row to be closer, and even got some personal instruction from Paula as the class practiced their chords.
Paula Fuga performs at Mountain View Elementary
It was a touching moment in a week of music and joy with Paula Fuga. During her stay in Salt Lake City, she taught several classes and met with community members, before her public performance at Kingsbury Hall.
The week started out with a lecture and film screening with students from Dr. Maile Arvin&#;s Pacific Islands Studies classes. Paula discussed her Hawaiian heritage and how it influences her songwriting. She encouraged the students to be intentional and to always remember your
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Paul Fuga is an Americansinger-songwriter based in Hawaii..
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A humble beginning surrounded by the blues and gospel music of Louisiana, rooted and matured in the cultural richness and diversity of Hawaii, and eventually touring the East and West Coasts of America have infused Paula Fuga with a voice that is wet with soul from America’s Bible Belt, ripened by the various textures of paradise, and cultivated with sophistication through a sovereign journey.
On her independent record label, Pakipika Productions, Paula Fuga has managed to release her unique flavor of music around the world, earning an astounding and dedicated fan base, while collecting impressive critical acclaim, including a Na Hoku Hano Hano Award; Hawaii’s highest and most prestigious music honor, which lead to her collaboration with the Honolulu Symphony, opening for Three Dog Night.
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If Ever (Paula Fuga and Jack Johnson song)
single by Paula Fuga and Jack Johnson featuring Ben Harper
"If Ever" is a song bygd Hawaiian singer-songwriters Paula Fuga and Jack Johnson featuring Ben Harper. The song was released on April 16, , and fryst vatten the lead single from Fuga's studio album Rain on Sunday, to be released via Brushfire Records.[citation needed] Fuga and Johnson also performed the song for Earth Day Live [1] The song was released to Triple-A radio on April 19 in the United States.[2]
Composition
[edit]The song was written by Johnson and Fuga about their fathers, who had both died. Johnson had the melody and some of the lyrics in his head for years.[1] Fuga then added some of her shared experiences into the song as well. Ben Harper was added and plays the lap steel gitarr in the song.
Personnel
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