My new Hawaiian package offers an optional ukulele player and his name is Elias Ka’uhane.

A true “island son”, Elias was born on the island of O’ahu and raised in the windward town of Kane’ohe. His musical influences, like most Hawaiian youth, began at home.  His father played ukulele and sang & Elias’ grandparents were well known in the Waikiki music scene and performed with many of the greats of that golden period, such as Aunty Genoa Keawe, Marlene Sai and Sonny Chillingsworth.

Elias attended Kamehameha Schools from 1973 to 1979, where he was selected to join the acclaimed Kamehameha Schools Concert Glee Choir and sang as a tenor alongside Tony Conjugacion, Lopaka Ho’opii, and Nephi Brown. His love for Hawaiian music was deeply ingrained under the guidance of his music instructors Robert Cazimero, Wayne Chang, Zillah Young and Dale Noble.

He graduated in 1979 and, after several years of travel and military service, he returned to Honolulu where he met his wife, Lisa, a local haole girl.

Elias has been a resident of the Puget Sound community of Richmond Beach, Washington, since 1995. While he’s now a successful Realtor with the leading  real estate company, Keller Williams, his real love has always been a wide variety of music.

You can hear a sample of Elias’ music by going to his website:  http://www.musicbyelias.com/

Aloha!