Keola Beamer

Quick Facts

Full Name	Keola Beamer
Occupation	Guitar player
Date Of Birth	Jan 18, 1951(1951-01-18)
Age	73
Birthplace	O‘ahu
Country	United States
Birth City	Hawaii
Horoscope	Capricorn

Keola Beamer Biography

Keola Beamer is one of the most popular and richest Guitar Player who was born on January 18, 1951 in O‘ahu, Hawaii, United States. Beamer comes from a line of musicians five generations back, and can also trace his roots to the House of Kamehameha and Ahiakumai, 15th century rulers of Hawaii. His great grandmother was Helen Desha Beamer, an influential songwriter and hula dancer, and his mother, Winona Beamer (“Auntie Nona”) has been one of the most important figures in the revival of Hawaiian culture since the 1940s: composer, dancer, educator, and coiner of the term “Hawaiiana,” which describes the cultural-studies area she pioneered at the Kamehameha Schools. Beamer is also a cancer survivor.

In 1973 he published First Method for the Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar (which was in fact the first instruction book for the form), and in the 1990s he produced several more instruction books and videos and started offering lessons on-line via his website. Since 2001, he has run a series of “cultural immersion” workshops dedicated not only to slack key but other aspects of Hawaiiana. Meanwhile, he has continued to tour and to release CDs on his own ‘Ohe Records label. In 2014, he was honored with a NACF Artist Fellowship for Music. He lives in Lahaina, Hawaii.

Beamer is a Hawaiian Music Legend. Beamer’s debut recording in 1972 was headlined “Jack Mello presents Keola Beamer” and titled “Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar in the Real Old Style”, followed in the same year by an album with his brother Kapono Beamer in 1972. This second album was headlined “Jack de Mello presents Keola and Kapono Beamer” and titled “This Is Our Island Home – We Are Her Sons,” and subtitled “Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar in the Real Old Style”. The album featured traditional songs as well as songs composed by Keola, Kapono, and their mother Winona. Keola and his younger brother Kapono performed as a duo, mixing traditional materials and styles with mainland pop influences. In the seven albums they produced over the next decade, they played an important part in establishing the style that came to be called “Hawaiian contemporary,” rooted in Hawaiian language and tradition but open to influences from elsewhere: rock, pop, Latin, folk-revival singer-songwriter, Hollywood soundtrack, and so on. The title song of the brothers’ 1978 LP Honolulu City Lights was an enormously popular single in the Hawaiian local market, and in 2004 Honolulu Magazine placed the album first on a list of the fifty most important Hawaiian albums. In the 1980s, the brothers went their separate ways professionally, each producing award-winning records. After several pop-oriented albums, Keola connected with George Winston’s Dancing Cat recording project for five releases between 1994 and 2002, emphasizing slack key guitar and Hawaiian lyrics, but by no means abandoning “contemporary” influences.

Keola Beamer Net Worth

Keola Beamer is one of the richest Guitar player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Keola Beamer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Keola Beamer (born Keolamaikalani Breckenridge Beamer in 1951) is a Hawaiian slack-key guitar player, best known as the composer of “Honolulu City Lights” and an innovative musician who fused Hawaiian roots and contemporary music. Keola Beamer comes from one of Hawaii’s most respected musical families.

Beamer has also been influential as a teacher. He started offering lessons in the early 1970s, at a time when most players would only reveal their musical secrets to family members. About 1972, both Keola and Kapono provided slack key guitar lessons at the Guitar and Lute Workshop, a custom guitar manufacturer and recording studio located near Ala Moana Shopping Center on Piikoi Street. “In my early twenties, I was making guitars with George Gilmore and Donald Marienthal. We had the wild idea we could make nice guitars out of koa and mango wood so we took out a loan from the Small Business Administration and started the Guitar and Lute Workshop on Waimanu Street in Honolulu. People started coming in to ask about slack key. There were very few teachers back then, so I agreed to try it.” Keola also published an instruction manual entitled “Hawaiian Slack Key.” Teaching became his main job for several years until he turned to full-time performing and composing.

Beamer was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2012 under the Best Regional Roots Music Album category, which is now the catch all category for Hawaiian music. The same year the musical soundtrack for the motion picture movie Descendants was also nominated for the 55th Annual Grammy Awards. Which is an album Beamer played on and contributed to.

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Who is Keola Beamer Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Oswaldo Ranked on the list of most popular Guitar Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Keola Beamer celebrates birthday on January 18 of every year.

What happened to Keola Beamer?

He lives in Lahaina, Hawaii. Beamer was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2012 under the Best Regional Roots Music Album category, which includes Hawaiian music.

How old is Keola Beamer?

71 years (February 18, 1951)

Where was Keola Beamer born?

O‘ahu, HI

Who authored the very first written instruction book for the Hawaiian

slack key guitar published in 1972?

Keola was also the author of the very first written instruction book for the Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, published in 1972. Jeff Peterson Recognized as one of Hawaii’s most versatile musicians, Jeff Peterson is at the heart of the Hawaiian music scene today.

What does Keola mean in Hawaiian?

The name Keola is primarily a gender-neutral name of Hawaiian origin that means The Life.