Melveen Leed

American singer (born 1943)

Melveen Leed (born on Molokai island in 1943, Hawaii) is an American singer. She graduated from Radford High School in Honolulu. After winning the title of "Miss Molokai" she began singing in the mid-1960s and has released a number of records in the genres of Hawaiian, country, and jazz music.

She won the Na Hoku Hanohano Award for Best Female Vocalist in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1984 and 1987. She has had several guest roles on Hawaii Five-O and sang at the Grand Ole Opry. She has performed in Hawaii, Las Vegas, Japan and on the west coast of California.

She was the anchor performer at the International Marketplace in Waikiki every Saturday from 2011 until the Marketplaces's closing in December, 2014. She performed in the Hawaiian Summer Concert at Carnegie Hall, in 2014.[1]

Recordings

  • Best of Melveen, Vol. II
  • Grand Old Hawaiian Music, Nashville Style
  • Hawaiian Country Girl
  • I Love You, Hawai'i
  • Melveen's Hawaiian Country Hits, Vols. I and II
  • My Isle of Golden Dreams
  • A Part of Me, A Part of You
  • Sur Cette Plage
  • With the Best of Slack Key

She also recorded these albums with a group "The Local Divas", consisting of her, Carole Kai, Loyal Garner and Nohelani Cypriano:

  • Local Diva's Christmas
  • Timeless

References

  1. ^ "Performance History Search". carnegiehall.org. The Carnegie Hall Corporation. Retrieved 21 October 2023.

External links

  • Melveen Leed's official website
  • Generations Hawaii
  • Surfside Hawaii
  • Hoku's
  • Tidal Wave Entertainment
  • "Loyal Divas" Honolulu Star-Bulletin, November 27, 2001
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Patrons
  • Kalākaua
  • Leleiohoku II
  • Likelike
  • Liliʻuokalani
199519961998
19992000
  • Maddy Lam
  • Hawaiian Chanters: Keaulumoku, Ka`opulupulu, Kapoukahi, Kapihe and Hewahewa
20012002
  • Songs honored: Alika, Kalama'ula, Wehiwehi 'Oe
200320042005
20062007
2008
  • Joseph Ae'a
  • Elizabeth "Lizzie" Kahau Kauanui Alohikea
  • Anuhea Audrey Brown
  • Thomas Kihei Desha Brown
  • Alice Angeline Johnson
  • John Keola Lake
  • Albert Po'ai Nahale-a Sr.
  • Leo Nahenahe Singers
  • Palani Vaughan
  • James Kaʻupena Wong
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
20142015
  • Lokalia Montgomery
  • Lei Collins
  • Halekulani Girls (Alice Fredlund, Sybil Bright Andrews, Linda Dela Cruz)
  • Jerry Byrd
  • Darrell Lupenui
  • Thaddius Wilson
  • O'Brian Eselu
2016
2017
  • Richard “Babe” Bell
  • The Isaacs ‘Ohana
  • The Kanaka’ole ‘Ohana
  • Krash Kealoha
  • Jacqueline "Skylark" Rossetti
  • Kimo Kahoano
  • Karen Keawehawai’i
  • Melveen Leed
  • Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
2018
  • Beamer ‘Ohana (Nona, Keola, Kapono)
  • Bray ‘Ohana (Daddy and Lydia Bray)
  • Ho‘opi‘i Brothers (Richard and Solomon)
  • Kahananui ‘Ohana (Dorothy Kahananui and Dorothy Gillett)
  • Saichi Kawahara
  • Literary award: He Mele Aloha: A Hawaiian Songbook (Vicky Hollinger, Kimo Hussey, Puakea Nogelmeier, Carol Wilcox), The Queen’s Songbook (Dorothy Kahananui Gillett, Barbara Smith and Hui Hanai)
2019
  • Pua Haʻaheo
  • Marta Hohu
  • Leila Hohu Kiaha
  • David “Feet” Rogers
  • Harry B. Soria Jr.
  • Kauʻi Zuttermeister
  • Hawaiian Room musicians from the Lexington Hotel, NYC
2020
  • Paused due to the global pandemic
20212022
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