Owana Salazar

Owana Salazar

Born	(1953-10-30) October 30, 1953 Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii
Occupation	Musician
Spouse(s)	Ronald Kaʻimihale Walters Warren Kaipohoʻohuaamaua DeGuair
Children	2
Parent(s)	Helena Kalokuokamaile Wilcox Henry Mario Salazar

Owana Kaʻōhelelani Mahaelani-rose Salazar (born October 30, 1953) is a musician and activist who is descended from Robert William Wilcox and Theresa Laanui.^[1] She has been involved in Hawaiian sovereignty issues.

Birth, family and early life

Owana Salazar was born in 1953. Her parents were Helena Kalokuokamaile Wilcox and Henry Mario Salazar. Owana is descended from the aliʻi line of Laʻanui, grandson of Kalokuokamaile, who was the first born son of Keōua Kalanikupuapaʻīkalaninui Ahilapalapa. Keōua's second son was Kamehameha I.^[2]

She was raised on the island of Oahu. Her early years were immersed in music and family history as taught to her by her mother. 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".^[3]

Salazar is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools, were she sang with the Concert Glee Club,^[3] and the University of Hawaii,^[4] where she learned Kihoʻalu (slack key guitar).^[2] Salazar studied hula with the Kumu Hula, Ho`akalei Kamau`u, Ho`oulu Richards and Winona Beamer.^[5] 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.^[6]

Music career

At the start of her public career, Salazar performed with Hawaiian headliners such as Don Ho,^[7] Ohta-San, Ed Kenney and Charles K.L. Davis.^[4] 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 Marvin Gaye, Debussy, Ravel, Bach, Rachmaninov.

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 O`ahu. 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 has been strongly influenced by her descent from Hawaiian royalty and from her great grandfather, Robert Kalanihiapo Wilcox, a military and political leader. At nineteen, she was initiated into the Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors, Mamakakaua, a lineage society of descendants of Hawaii's ruling chiefs. Throughout her musical career, Salazar has promoted Hawaiian history, culture and sovereignty. 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 Wilcox. His statue was installed at Wilcox Park in downtown Honolulu, on the corner of King and Fort Street.

In July 1998, Salazar and her son withdrew from Ka Lahui. In press interviews around the centennial of the United States' annexation of Hawaii under the 1898 Newlands Resolution, she noted that it was only a joint resolution of the US Congress, not a treaty.^[3]

Family tree

Laʻanui, Wilcox, Salazar 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^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kahikikalaokalani^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kekuʻiapoiwa II^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kalokuokamaile^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kaloiokalani^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kamehameha I^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kaʻahumanu

Kalākua Kaheiheimālie

Kaohele^{[lower-roman 1]}

Nuhi^{[lower-roman 1]}

Jean Baptiste Rives

Holau II

Makole (k)

Haupa (w)

Gideon Peleioholani Laanui^{[lower-roman 1]}
1797–1849
né Laʻanui

Namahana Piia (w)

Theresa Owana Kaheiheimalie Reeves^{[lower-roman 1]}

Captain William Slocum Wilcox
1814–1910

Kalua
1836–1865

Gideon Kailipalaki Laanui^{[lower-roman 1]}
1840–1871

Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau Laʻanui Pratt^{[lower-roman 1]}
1834–1928
née Elizabeth Kekaaniau

Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox^{[lower-roman 1]}
(November 5, 1850 - October 30, 1919)^{[lower-roman 2]}

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

Theresa Owana Kaʻohelelani Laʻanui^{[lower-roman 1]}

Alexander Joy Cartwright III^{[lower-roman 1]}

Elmer Miller^{[lower-roman 3]}

Makalike

Robert Kalanikupuapaikalaninui Keōua Wilcox^{[lower-roman 1]}

Helen Kaleipuanani Simerson Wilburton^{[lower-roman 1]}

John Kilioe Miller^{[lower-roman 1]}
May 26, 1896 - April 20, 1969^{[lower-roman 4]}

Virginia Kahoa Kaʻahumanu Kaihikapumahana Wilcox^{[lower-roman 1]}^{[lower-roman 5]}

Elizabeth Kaʻakaualaninui Wilcox^{[lower-roman 1]}

Daisy Emmalani Napulahaokalani Cartwright^{[lower-roman 1]}

Eva Kuwailanimamao Cartwright^{[lower-roman 1]}

Henry Mario Salazar

Henry Machado, Sr.

Helena Kalokuokamaile Wilcox Salazar-Machado^{[lower-roman 1]}
April 13, 1917 – September 17, 1988
(née Wilcox)

Henry C. Keaweikekahialiiokamoku Salazar

Paul C. Kalokuokamaile Salazar

Michael Carl Kauhiokalani Salazar

Stephen Craig Laanui Salazar

Owana Kaohelelani Mahealani-rose Salazar

Notes:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Hawaiian Native Claims Settlement Study Commission, Exhibit B, Genealogy Descent from the Kamehameha Royal Family .^{[lower-greek 1]}
↑ Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age lists Wilcox's full birth and death dating.^{[lower-greek 2]}
↑ Marriage license of Jno K. Kilioe Miller to Virginia K. Wilcox list E.O Miller as father and Makalike as mother of Jno.^{[lower-greek 3]}
↑ United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918.^{[lower-greek 4]}
↑ Hawaii Marriages, 1826-1922.^{[lower-greek 5]}

↑ United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Resources (1977). Hawaiian Native Claims Settlement Study Commission: Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Resources of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, and the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs and Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on S.J. Res. 4 ... H.J. Res. 526 ... Honolulu, Hawaii, July 6, 1977, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii, July 7, 1977. 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.

References

↑ Jon M. Van Dyke (2008). Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawai_i?. University of Hawaii Press. p. 366. ISBN 978-0-8248-3211-7.
1 2 Amalu, Sammy (1955), "The Story of Hawaiian Royalty", Honolulu Advertiser, Lorrin P. Thurston-Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library
1 2 3 Dan Boylan (August 7, 1998). "Battle Royal". Midweek. Retrieved November 19, 2010.
1 2 Lorene Ruymar (1996). The Hawaiian Steel Guitar and Its Great Hawaiian Musicians. Centerstream Publications. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-57424-021-4.
↑ "pasifika-artists.com". Retrieved January 11, 2016.
↑ "Princess Owana Salazar, Cindy Combs". Herschel Freemna Inc. herschelfreemanagency,com. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
↑ "Aloha Concert Series". Retrieved January 11, 2016.

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