Owana Salazar

Owana Salazar

Born	(1953-10-30) October 30, 1953 Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii
Occupation	Musician
Spouse(s)	Ronald Kaʻimihale Walters Warren Kaipohoʻohuaamaua DeGuair
Children	Mahana Kaʻahumanu Walters Noa Kalokuokamaile
Parent(s)	Helena Kalokuokamaile Wilcox Henry Mario Salazar

Owana Kaʻōhelelani Kahekili Mahaelani-rose Salazar (born October 30, 1953) is a descendant of Hawaiian royalty and a member of the House of Keoua Nui (Keoua Kalanikūpuapaʻīkalaninui, father of King Kamehameha the Great). She is the great grand daughter of Princess Theresa Owana Kaʻōhelelani Laʻanui Wilcox and the great great grand nice of the High Chiefess Princess Elizabeth Kekaʻanīʻau Laʻanui Pratt, who was named among the "Princeʻs and Chiefʻs Eligible to be Rulers" as appointed by His Royal Majesty King Kamehameha III by way of the Order-in-Council, published in the official newspaper of the Hawaiian Kingdom, "The Polynesian" July 20, 1844.

Owana Kaʻōhelelani Kahekili Mahealani-rose Salazar was born in 1953. Her mother was the High Chiefess, Princess Helena Kalokuokamaile Wilcox and her father Henry Mario Salazar was a descendant of Spanish nobility. Owanaʻs family is the senior line of the Kamehamehaʻs through the first son of Keoua Nui and Kahikikalā a sacred High Chiefess of Maui. Their union produced a son, the High Chief Kalokuokamaile, who was the eldest brother of King Kamehameha I.^[1]

Owana is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools, and attended the University of Hawaii,^[2] where she studied music theory, instruments, private voice tutelage with Elizabeth Cole, piano, string methods, guitar, Javanese dance and gamelan as well as continuing her study of Hula and ʻOli with the Kumu Hula, Ho`akalei Kamau`u, Ho`oulu Richards and Winona Beamer.^[3]

Owana Salazar - ʻOihana Kahua

Singer, Slack Key and Steel Guitarist: Hawaiian / Jazz / Contemporary

2009-current: Hawaii Realtor Associate

Member of Maui County Cultural Resources Commission

2010 Hawaiian Music Grammy – Featured Guest Artist “Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar”

2009 Hawaiian Music Grammy Nomination “Spirit of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar”

2008 Hawaiian Music Grammy “Treasures of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar”

Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award Winner

2005 Jazz Album of the Year, “Hula Jazz”

2003 Contemporary Hawaiian Album of the Year, “Wahine Slack n’ Steel”

Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award Nominations, including: Song of the Year for “Hula Jazz”, Album of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, Entertainer of the Year, Most Promising Artist of the Year.

Music Tours Performed in major cities and performing art centers of: New Zealand, Tahiti, Australia, Japan, Canada, and United States.

2002, 2006, 2007 Featured Artist on “A Prairie Home Companion” wwith Garrison Keillor ~ http//prairiehome.publicradio.org

2004 performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

2002 Only woman to graduate from Jerry Byrd’s Course for Hawaiian Steel Guitar

1994 Performed for the Dalai Lama “Kindness and Compassion” tour, , Waikiki Shell ~ Honolulu, Hawaii

Discography (partial)

"Owana and Ka'ipo IN KONA" (1986), Nominated: Most Promising Artist of the Year.
Owana (1987), Nominated: Female Vocalist of the Year; Contemporary Hawaiian Album of the Year.
Wahine Slack n’ Steel (2003), Winner: Contemporary Hawaiian Album of the Year. Nominated: Female Vocalist of the Year; Album of the Year.
Hula Jazz (2005), Winner: Jazz Album of the Year; Nominated: Female Vocalist of the Year; Album of the Year; Song of the Year
Hawaiian Slack Key Masters: Volume III, Winner: Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album
Hawaiian Slack Key Masters: Volume IV, Winner: Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album

Cultural Integrity

Princess Owana was initiated into the Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors, Mamakakaua, a lineage society of descendants of Hawaii's ruling chiefs. Throughout her lifetime, she has promoted Hawaii history and culture.

Family tree

Laʻanui, Wilcox, Salazar Family Tree

Key- Subjects with bold titles and blue bold box= Aliʻi line. Bold title and grey bolded box= Lower ranking Aliʻi line. Bold title and un-bolded box= European nobility. Regular name and box= makaʻāinana or untitled foreign subject.

Keōua^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kahikikalaokalani^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kekuʻiapoiwa II^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kalokuokamaile^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kaloiokalani^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kamehameha I^{[lower-roman 1]}

Kaʻahumanu

Kalākua Kaheiheimālie

Kaohele^{[lower-roman 1]}

Nuhi^{[lower-roman 1]}

Jean Baptiste Rives

Holau II

Makole (k)

Haupa (w)

Gideon Peleioholani Laanui^{[lower-roman 1]}
1797–1849
né Laʻanui

Namahana Piia (w)

Theresa Owana Kaheiheimalie Reeves^{[lower-roman 1]}

Captain William Slocum Wilcox
1814–1910

Kalua
1836–1865

Gideon Kailipalaki Laanui^{[lower-roman 1]}
1840–1871

Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau Laʻanui Pratt^{[lower-roman 1]}
1834–1928
née Elizabeth Kekaaniau

Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox^{[lower-roman 1]}
(November 5, 1850 - October 30, 1919)^{[lower-roman 2]}

Gina Sobrero-Wilcox
1863-1912
(née Baroness Gina Sobrero)

Theresa Owana Kaʻohelelani Laʻanui^{[lower-roman 1]}

Alexander Joy Cartwright III^{[lower-roman 1]}

Elmer Miller^{[lower-roman 3]}

Makalike

Robert Kalanikupuapaikalaninui Keōua Wilcox^{[lower-roman 1]}

Helen Kaleipuanani Simerson Wilburton^{[lower-roman 1]}

John Kilioe Miller^{[lower-roman 1]}
May 26, 1896 - April 20, 1969^{[lower-roman 4]}

Virginia Kahoa Kaʻahumanu Kaihikapumahana Wilcox^{[lower-roman 1]}^{[lower-roman 5]}

Elizabeth Kaʻakaualaninui Wilcox^{[lower-roman 1]}

Daisy Emmalani Napulahaokalani Cartwright^{[lower-roman 1]}

Eva Kuwailanimamao Cartwright^{[lower-roman 1]}

Henry Mario Salazar

Henry Machado, Sr.

Helena Kalokuokamaile Wilcox Salazar-Machado^{[lower-roman 1]}
April 13, 1917 – September 17, 1988
(née Wilcox)

Henry C. Keaweikekahialiiokamoku Salazar

Paul C. Kalokuokamaile Salazar

Michael Carl Kauhiokalani Salazar

Stephen Craig Laanui Salazar

Owana Kaohelelani Mahealani-rose Salazar

Notes:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Hawaiian Native Claims Settlement Study Commission, Exhibit B, Genealogy Descent from the Kamehameha Royal Family .^{[lower-greek 1]}
↑ Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age lists Wilcox's full birth and death dating.^{[lower-greek 2]}
↑ Marriage license of Jno K. Kilioe Miller to Virginia K. Wilcox list E.O Miller as father and Makalike as mother of Jno.^{[lower-greek 3]}
↑ United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918.^{[lower-greek 4]}
↑ Hawaii Marriages, 1826-1922.^{[lower-greek 5]}

↑ United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Resources (1977). Hawaiian Native Claims Settlement Study Commission: Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Resources of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, and the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs and Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on S.J. Res. 4 ... H.J. Res. 526 ... Honolulu, Hawaii, July 6, 1977, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii, July 7, 1977. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 119–122. ASIN B003AILJ68.
↑ Leonard C. Schlup; James Gilbert Ryan (2003). Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age. M.E. Sharpe. p. 538. ISBN 978-0-7656-2106-1.
↑ Marriage license of Jno Miller to Virginia K. Wilcox, E. O. Miller in entry for Jno. K. Miller and Virginia K. Wilcox, 11 Jun 1916; citing Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, reference 12495B; FHL microfilm 1,711,737. "E.O.Miller". Family Search. Territory of Hawaii. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
↑ Draft card, John K Miller, 1917-1918; citing Honolulu City no 1, Hawaii, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,452,096. "John K. Miller". Family Search. Territory of Hawaii. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
↑ Marriage license, Jno. K. Miller and Virginia K. Wilcox, 11 Jun 1916; citing Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, reference 12495B; FHL microfilm 1,711,737. "Virginia K. Wilcox". Family Search. Territory of Hawaii. Retrieved 4 September 2015.

References

↑ Amalu, Sammy (1955), "The Story of Hawaiian Royalty", Honolulu Advertiser, Lorrin P. Thurston-Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library
↑ Lorene Ruymar (1996). The Hawaiian Steel Guitar and Its Great Hawaiian Musicians. Centerstream Publications. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-57424-021-4.
↑ "pasifika-artists.com". Retrieved January 11, 2016.

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