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“It’s more in the traditional
style, but he added his
own style to it, as well.”
Lum Ho said Niihau musician
Kele Kanahele “helped us with some
of the stories there in the verses.”
Paiva’s hula ‘auana is to
an original Lum Ho song.
“We’re bringing it back to
the Big Island,” she said. “He’s
talking about all his favorite places
here and we’re going to be
traveling to all those places.”
Paiva says that as she practices,
she’s getting “more confident each
day in my dancing, as well as holding
myself up and representing the halau.”
“I feel like this is what I’ve been
preparing for all my life, since I was
little,” she said. “Running for Miss
Aloha Hula has always been my
dream. I don’t want to run for Miss
Aloha Hula just to run for it, I also
want to show the love for hula that I
have, the heart, and what it means.”
The other Miss Aloha Hula
candidate from Hilo, 25-year-old
Joelle Nohealani Kalima of Hula
Halau O Kou Lima Nani ‘E, also
has danced hula since she was 4.
Her kumu also is her aunt, Iwalani
Kalima, and her brother, No‘eau
Kalima, is the halau’s alaka‘i.
“She has the lineage of hula being
perpetuated through her,” Iwalani
Kalima said. “She has the lineage
through all my sisters, through my
mom, and of course, through my
father and his brothers, who are
all in the entertainment world, and
even they used to dance the hula.”
The chant Nohealani Kalima
will dance kahiko to is “A Waimea
I Ka Uluwehi,” a chant honoring
Crown Princess Ka‘iulani on one
of her journeys to Kaua‘i, where
the mother’s side of the Miss Aloha
Hula candidate hails from. She
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Joelle Nohealani
Kalima
Alana Maureen
Ka‘ano‘anookalani Paiva
Asialynn Genoa
Kalihilihi‘ulaonalehua‘ohopoe
Yap
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