:Alice Nāmakelua

Nāmakelua was born in Kīhālani on Hawaii Island.{{Cite web|url=http://www.traditionalhawaiian.com/ |title=Ka Lahui o ka Pupuu Hookahi |accessdate=7 January 2016 |website=Traditional Hawaiian |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160124232335/http://www.traditionalhawaiian.com/ |archive-date=24 January 2016 }} As a teenager, she sang for the deposed queen, Liliuokalani. She was taught hula in her teen years by David Kaho'aleawai Kaluhiakalani, who had been the chanter for Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole.{{Cite book|title = Aloha America: Hula Circuits Through the U.S. Empire|last = Imada|first = Adria L.|publisher = Duke University Press|year = 2012|isbn = 978-0-8223-5207-5|pages = 77|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AgH9xngze1cC&dq=Alice++N%C4%81makelua&pg=PA77}} Nāmakelua spent most of her life on O'ahu.

Nāmakelua worked for the City of Honolulu's Parks and Recreation department, and some of her songs were composed for the Kamehameha Day Parades.{{Cite web|url = http://www.halaumohalailima.com/HMI/Kuahiwi_Nani.html|title = Kuahiwi Nani (Haleakalā Hula)|accessdate = 7 January 2016|website = Hālau Mōhala ‘Ilima|last = de Silva|first = Kīhei}} Nāmakelua would work on the Maui float for the parade, starting in 1944.{{Cite journal|url = http://kumukahi.kauluhoi.org/hana-oe-a-kani-pono-383/na-haawina/stillman---island-songs.pdf|title = 'Na Lei O Hawai'i': On Hula Songs, Floral Emblems, Island Princesses and Wahi Pana|last = Stillman|first = Amy Ku'uleialoha|date = 1994|journal = The Hawaiian Journal of History|access-date = 7 January 2016|volume = 28|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065007/http://kumukahi.kauluhoi.org/hana-oe-a-kani-pono-383/na-haawina/stillman---island-songs.pdf|archive-date = 4 March 2016|url-status = dead|df = dmy-all}} While working for the city, she also taught hula, Hawaiian language and music classes.{{Cite web|url = http://hawaiiarchivists.org/2015/05/|title = Repository Spotlight: Brigham Young University Hawaiʻi Archives|date = 12 May 2015|accessdate = 7 January 2016|website = Association of Hawai'i Archivists}} She was also the playground director.

She taught hula, song and the ukulele for a short time on Kauai in 1959, where she resided with mayor Francis Ching and his wife. In the 1970s, she was part of the Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance and noted for her guitar playing.{{Cite book|title = Encyclopedia of Asian America Folklore and Folklife|last = Forss|first = Matthew J.|publisher = ABC-CLIO|year = 2011|isbn = 978-0-313-35066-5|pages = 928|chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9BrfLWdeISoC&dq=%22alice+namakelua%22&pg=PA928|chapter = Pacific Islander Americans: Heroes and Heroines|editor-last = Lee|editor-first = Johanthan H. X.|editor-last2 = Nadeau|editor-first2 = Kathleen M.}} In 1978, she was one of the special award winners of the Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts.{{Cite web|url = http://www.nahokuhanohano.org/#!lifetime-achievement-awards/cak|title = Lifetime Achievement Awards|accessdate = 7 January 2016|website = Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts}} In 1980, she received a Na Makua Mahalo ia award, which was originally developed to recognize the musical accomplishments of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.{{Cite web|url = http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=mphs|title = Na Makua Mahalo ia: Mormon Influences on Hawaiian Music and Dance|accessdate = 7 January 2016|last = Stagner|first = Ishmael}}

• Haleakalā Hula (originally, Kuahiwi Nani 1941)
• I‘iwi a‘o Hilo (1950)
• Aia i Hilo ka Ua Kani Lehua (1956)
• Hanohano nō ‘o Hawai‘i (1958)
• Aloha K'olau (1959)
• Lei Hala O Kaua'i (1959)
• Polynesian Welcome (1967)
• Ka'ahumanu (1973)

• {{cite AV media |last=Namakelua |first=Alice |last2=Lilikoi |first2=Violet Pahu |title=Ku'uleialohapoina'ole |publisher=Hula Records |type=vinyl LP |oclc=900330872 |id=HS 552 |year=1974 |ref=none}}

• {{cite book |last=Namakelua |first=Alice |title="Aunty Alice" Namakelua's lifetime Hawaiian compositions |publisher=Hienz Guenther Pink |publication-place=Honolulu |year=1973 |oclc=1120749658 |language=haw |ref=none}}

{{Reflist}}

• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dae8BHy-wQE Aoha "Auntie" Alice Nāmakelua] (video)
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=indIwSadW-w Alice Nāmakelua] (video)
• [http://www.territorialairwaves.com/index.php?page=3&id=49 Ka'ahumanu] (audio)
• [http://www.huapala.org/Aloha/Aloha_Koolau.html Lyrics to Aloha Ko'olau]
• {{cite AV media |title=Ka Leo Hawaiʻi 103: Alice Nāmakelua |type=radio interview |website=ulukau.org |date=1975-10-05 |url=https://ulukau.org/kaniaina/?a=d&d=A-KLH-HV24-103& |ref=none |access-date=2023-01-16}}

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Category:1892 births

Category:1987 deaths

Category:American composers

Category:Native Hawaiian musicians