I'm grateful that someone uploaded this to TH-cam. Though this is not my graduating class, it's hard to forget the incredible feeling of accomplishment and hope for new beginnings tempered with the deep sadness of leaving our island home that I felt when I sang this. Mahalo.
It's amazing that a graduating class can sing so nicely in 4-part harmony even if they did sing the song once each week for their entire educational careers.
Thank you for re-posting this with the volume turned up! I can just hear President Obama, and my cousin Terri, singing this on their graduation day(s).
THIS IS TO ALL YOU WHO THINK THAT ONLY NATIVE HAWAI'IANS SHOULD SING THIS SONG: (You need to learn your history before you speak.) "The music used for the song "Hawaii Aloha" was taken from a Christian hymn entitled "I Left It All With Jesus", which was written in the 1840's by Pennsylvania singer and composer James McGranahan. King Kamehameha IV loved that hymn so much he asked missionary Reverend Lorenzo Lyons to rewrite the words and place the new song in a Hawaiian hymn book. Reverend Lyons had a church for many years in Waimea on the Big Island of Hawaii. "Hawaii Aloha" is also known as "Kuu One Hanau". (hawaiianmusichistory.com)" th-cam.com/video/zut3IWE4TRQ/w-d-xo.html
You don’t have to be Hawaiian to appreciate and celebrate Hawaiian culture. Non-Germans can sing German songs, Non-Chinese people can sing Chinese songs, etc.
@4getful4ever it's ironic that someone reppin Kamehameha -- at the expense of Punahou -- displays such a lack of aloha spirit. i'd figure you'd understand it the best. but it's ok cuz i can find the decency to enjoy both this song and the Kamehameha Song Contest while you take your negativity somewhere else. SHOOOOOOTS BRAH!
Kamehameha schools are the laugh of private schools here not kidding as a hawaiian and a local here there are mainly no Hawaiians at this school you can go to a hawaiian emergent school though but srsly i known my whole life and my cousins and aunties and uncles here that kamehameha is the laugh of private schools
@@UwU-lm9or bro even as a KS Maui student this comments is so accurate for some reason I mean everyone here is actually Hawaiian (My dad had to dig up some records to prove ancestry) But nobody looks Hawaiian LMAO
I think you have a prejudice that is unfounded. At my last reunion, his class was one of the honored classes. He did not show up. A classmate that coached him said he was very good at basketball. My sister taught him in the elementary grades. I wanted to ask him, if he did attended the reunion: Why is it here in Hawaii, you are just "hapa", mixed; then on the mainland you became Black?
They'd all be late thirties with responsibilities now- many of them so far away from their former island home.
I'm grateful that someone uploaded this to TH-cam. Though this is not my graduating class, it's hard to forget the incredible feeling of accomplishment and hope for new beginnings tempered with the deep sadness of leaving our island home that I felt when I sang this. Mahalo.
Beautiful my heart cries when i hear this wonderful song
Maholo nui for such a beautiful song fills my heart with the Aloha spirit and the tears are shed you should be so proud.
This might be a very emotional time singing this song on leaving school..
magnifique chorale !!!!! thank you !!!!
Sensational harmonies. Beautiful.
It's amazing that a graduating class can sing so nicely in 4-part harmony even if they did sing the song once each week for their entire educational careers.
I shed tears for this beautiful song and the love conveyed in it. Aloha !
very beautiful ❤️
❤espetacular MARAVILHOSO Lindo lindo lindo
gave me chills --so beautiful!
this is a beauiful song and I think people from different countries sing beautiful I love it
Amazing....
Excellent performance.
Good morning friends and families
I hope you get a million views, so inspiring! :-)
the best on TH-cam, mahalo
Top ! Freedom .
Thank you for re-posting this with the volume turned up! I can just hear President Obama, and my cousin Terri, singing this on their graduation day(s).
Kevierae gross
@@philoliver3309 lmao
THIS IS TO ALL YOU WHO THINK THAT ONLY NATIVE HAWAI'IANS SHOULD SING THIS SONG: (You need to learn your history before you speak.)
"The music used for the song "Hawaii Aloha" was taken from a Christian hymn entitled "I Left It All With Jesus", which was written in the 1840's by Pennsylvania singer and composer James McGranahan. King Kamehameha IV loved that hymn so much he asked missionary Reverend Lorenzo Lyons to rewrite the words and place the new song in a Hawaiian hymn book. Reverend Lyons had a church for many years in Waimea on the Big Island of Hawaii. "Hawaii Aloha" is also known as "Kuu One Hanau". (hawaiianmusichistory.com)"
th-cam.com/video/zut3IWE4TRQ/w-d-xo.html
You don’t have to be Hawaiian to appreciate and celebrate Hawaiian culture. Non-Germans can sing German songs, Non-Chinese people can sing Chinese songs, etc.
This video is older then me I was born in July of 2005
And I go to Kamehameha but still beautiful
What is the English translation of the words?
chicken skin mahalo for this!
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@4getful4ever
it's ironic that someone reppin Kamehameha -- at the expense of Punahou -- displays such a lack of aloha spirit. i'd figure you'd understand it the best.
but it's ok cuz i can find the decency to enjoy both this song and the Kamehameha Song Contest while you take your negativity somewhere else.
SHOOOOOOTS BRAH!
Is this the Robert Engle version? Where could I get sheet music for this?
are the harmonies and melodies taken from a Samoan song? this sounds oddly familiar
Is Punahou still more expensive than going to Harvard?
haha probably mah bradah
maybe work on the pronunciations of the Hawaiian words more but other than that great harmonies.
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I think we should all leave it to Kamehameha Schools to do this kinda of things... #nuffsed
WTF!?!?!?
Kamehameha schools are the laugh of private schools here not kidding as a hawaiian and a local here there are mainly no Hawaiians at this school you can go to a hawaiian emergent school though but srsly i known my whole life and my cousins and aunties and uncles here that kamehameha is the laugh of private schools
@@UwU-lm9or bro even as a KS Maui student this comments is so accurate for some reason
I mean everyone here is actually Hawaiian (My dad had to dig up some records to prove ancestry) But nobody looks Hawaiian LMAO
It would have been better for the world if Punahou was a little less Eurocentric when the president was there.
I think you have a prejudice that is unfounded. At my last reunion, his class was one of the honored classes. He did not show up. A classmate that coached him said he was very good at basketball. My sister taught him in the elementary grades. I wanted to ask him, if he did attended the reunion: Why is it here in Hawaii, you are just "hapa", mixed; then on the mainland you became Black?