C. T. Suddeth

I visited Hawaii twice but forgot how beautiful Hawaiian music is until HBO’s White Lotus series’s (sexual content warning) soundtrack. Forget hula dancers and ukuleles, the choral music is insanely beautiful. Now my local classical station (WUOL 90.5) is playing Hawaiian music, Queen Liliuokalani’s (last Hawaiian Queen) “Aloha ‘Oe”—Hawaiian anthem.

Mexican Indian cowboys brought over to introduce Hawaiians to cattle ranching introduced them to falsetto singing.