Podcast & Article…The Forgotten Story Of How Hawaiians Transformed American Music

https://www.civilbeat.org/2020/06/the-forgotten-story-of-how-hawaiians-transformed-american-music/

Hawaiian musicians touring across America in the 1900s had an enormous — and often overlooked — impact on the development of blues and country music.

Kale Kahalehili and Jean Duff needed to get home to Hawaii. Philadelphia was no place for an interracial couple in 1915. They were struggling. Their kids were struggling.

The young couple met at a theater in Honolulu in 1902. Kahelehili was a dashing young musician playing in an orchestra. Duff was a model from the mainland — 10 years his senior — touring the world as a magician’s assistant.

They fell in love and he followed her home to Philadelphia.

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Podcast & Article…The Forgotten Story Of How Hawaiians Transformed American Music

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