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Podcast: It's A Hawaii Thing
Episode: Bobby Moderow Jr. - Award Winning Musician, Singer-Songwriter
Description: Founding member of the six-time Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award-winning group Maunalua, Bobby Moderow, Jr. is a renowned slack key guitar and falsetto artist. A member of the prestigious Honolulu Boy Choir from ages 9 to 12, Moderow later become a protégé of the late slack key guitar master Raymond Kane, who was proclaimed a National Living Treasure by the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts in 1987, and awarded funding for the apprenticeship program under which Moderow studied.
With his Maunalua brothers, Moderow has performed all over the world, including at the inaugural luʻau for President Obama...