Bruddah IZ
May 20, 1959 - June 26, 1997
In Loving Memory - Israel Kamakawiwo`ole
Lately, the "In Loving Memory - Israel Kamakawiwo`ole Guestbook" has been a difficult task to upkeep on a regular basis. As a result, e-Hawaii.com was generous enough to offer some space where the guestbook process is somewhat automated. I hope you enjoy the "new" look. My apologies for any inconvenience(s) this has caused.
Name: Bob Urell
Email: BobUrell@juno.com
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Date: Friday, April 26, 2002
Time: 09:18 PM
Comments
I've yet to hear anything so heartfelt as his "Over the Rainbow".
Name: al padilla
Email: maria.padilla3@verizon.net
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Date: Friday, April 26, 2002
Time: 06:38 PM
Comments
i am a relative newcomer to hawaiian music, but i have been so moved by IZ and his music,manner,love,words,life,love of people, i am left wanting, i have all his cd's 1 video, but if there are any more videos of him i would love to have them to remember him in mind as well as ear. MAHALO, AL PADILLA
Name: Greg Shirk
Email: Buff8fan01@yahoo.com
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Date: Thursday, April 25, 2002
Time: 11:50 AM
Comments
I feel very fortunate to have seen Bruddah Iz live several times while I was stationed on Oahu. He was a great man and taught us many things through his music. I miss him and Hawaii very much. He will never be forgotten.
Malama pono,
Greg
Name: Nathan K. Kamae
Email: alohaboykamae@hotmail.com
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Date: Thursday, April 25, 2002
Time: 11:13 AM
Comments
Thanks for da times. Much the love.
Name: Bob Alabaster
Email: bob@usscreen.com
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Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2002
Time: 02:01 PM
Comments
I'm a Jewish kid from the Bronx, living in Arizona. Iz's music has touched me deeply. His message, his spirit, lives on, even here, even now. Rest in Peace my brother.
Bob Alabaster Cave Creek, AZ
Name: Louise Frechette
Email: frechette@cybertours.com
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Date: Monday, April 22, 2002
Time: 05:10 AM
Comments
We love you and miss you even in Maine.
Name: CHYANNE TIANA LOVINA COLOMA
Email: CHYDAANGEL@AOL
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Date: Sunday, April 21, 2002
Time: 11:20 PM
Comments
IM SORRY TO THE WONDERFUL FAMILY THAT LOST BRUDDAH IZ.MY FAMILY AND I FEEL THE SAME WAY U GUYS FEEL CAUSE BRUDDAH IZ WAS OUR MAN DA MAN DAT WE THOUGHT THAT WAS DA BOMB.NOW EVEREY TIME WHEN HIS SONGS COME ON THE RADIO WE JUST HAVE A DREADFUL FEELING.IM SORRY TO YOU GUYS WHO LOST DA BIG MAN BUT HE WILL STAY IN EACH AND EVEREYONES HEART THE PEOPLE WHO WAS DA BIG FANS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Name: JR MORI (CHUUKESE)
Email: chinren_X3@hotmail.com
URL:
Date: Sunday, April 21, 2002
Time: 05:53 PM
Comments
no music touches me as deep as yours...for that, i thank you, and will always remember you...thank you very much... much love goes out to you... (micronesia)
Name: Jean Neely
Email: jneely@coin.org
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Date: Sunday, April 21, 2002
Time: 01:56 PM
Comments
I used Israel's song Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World in a video that I made for my parents 50th anniversary. It was the music playing behind pictures of their childhood and adolescense. It was perfect and beautiful.
Name: Cynthia Ritchey
Email: cynritchey@yahoo.com
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Date: Friday, April 19, 2002
Time: 06:35 AM
Comments
I never knew you, would have loved to sing and creat music with you. Thank you for sharing what treasures you had been blessed with, I know you will rest in peace and the world will never forget your beauty.
Aloha.
Name: Mike George
Email: michaelgeorge@clearchannel.com
URL:
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2002
Time: 06:53 AM
Comments
Miss your wonderful voice-play your music all the time!!!!!
Name: Desmond Smith
Email: desmondlewissmith@hotmail.com
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Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2002
Time: 05:00 PM
Comments
Bruddah's music hits me so hard, I cry whenever I hear it... such a beautiful person, you will be missed. When I have children, they will be raised playing your music!
Name: Kang,Mihye
Email:
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Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2002
Time: 02:55 PM
Comments
I miss Hawaiian superman..
Name: Maili
Email: jmailip88@yahoo.com
URL:
Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2002
Time: 09:41 AM
Comments
I am only 13 yeaes old and i Have fallen in love with Iz's music. Even though he only reamins in our memories, he is still in inspiration to others.
Name: Lee
Email:
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Date: Sunday, April 14, 2002
Time: 01:54 PM
Comments
A hiki i keia la, ua pololi makou, ua make wai, ua lohelohe mai, a ho'olohe i kou leo. . .
Even in this day, we hunger, we thirst, we listen carefully, and we hear your voice. . .
Aloha aku i ka ohana o ko Bruddah Iz
Name: kD
Email: kdjyc1999Ahotmail.com
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Date: Sunday, April 14, 2002
Time: 04:37 AM
Comments
braddah Iz a true inspriration to us all. His music will never die. But him as a person will always be missed. But we will always feel his mana. but someday we all going get together and eat the stew that braddah Iz stay keeping hot for us mahalo for everything we miss you alot and all our aloha goes out to his family and friends. k-den aloha
Name: James R. Messenger
Email: jrmhome@bellsouth.net
URL:
Date: Saturday, April 13, 2002
Time: 02:43 PM
Comments
April 13, 2002
I have just now discovered IZ through his masterpiece album "Facing Future." It had been my hope to tell him that I was in awe to know such an extraordinary artist existed. I am devastated to know of his loss, but I would like to go on record that I believe IZ to be a giant in the art of music, whose work should live a mighty long time.
What a talent! My best to his wife and daughter and family. You were touched by greatness, and it has been my good fortune to learn -- however late -- of this remarkable man and his extraordinary voice and depiction of the wondrous Hawaiian Islands and its culture.
My best,
Jim Messenger Marietta, Georgia
Name: Rich Koch
Email: LINDA-RICH.KOCH.FORDS@worldnet.att.net
URL:
Date: Saturday, April 13, 2002
Time: 02:29 PM
Comments
What a great voice ,tremendous performer.way to young,would loved to have see him perform in person.
Name: Denn
Email: denn_74_center@hotmail.com
URL:
Date: Saturday, April 13, 2002
Time: 02:54 AM
Comments
Hello everyone, I have been listening to IZ now for about 4 months, and his music greatly changes the way I look at my life, and I juts enjoy it so much, he has the most soothing voice, he relaxes me, thanks for keeping him in memory with this site.
Name: Evette W. Lau
Email: evette.lau@charterfunding.com
URL:
Date: Friday, April 12, 2002
Time: 01:47 PM
Comments
Iz is greatly missed, but music and his angelic voice remains forever.
Name: Irma
Email: aleidae1@aol.com
URL:
Date: Friday, April 12, 2002
Time: 08:51 AM
Comments
I started listening to IZ's music on (4/11/02) and now I am totally hooked. I've downloaded his music at my house and at my work and I am recomending him to all my friends.
He might not be with us in physical form, but he will always be with us in spirit and mind.
Name: Paul Procissi
Email: p_p_p_99@yahoo.com
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Date: Thursday, April 11, 2002
Time: 08:15 PM
Comments
I first heard IZ on public radio one beautiful day in early spring. He was singing 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow', and I was moved by his sweet voice and how well it caught the moment and the day and my own feelings. I contacted the station and learned his name. I have since acquired most of his music and am always amazed at the great talent and feeling of this man who left us all to soon. The world is a better place for his having been here. Aloha IZ!!
Name: Dr. David Babulski
Email: dbabulsk@lanier.com
URL:
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2002
Time: 06:19 AM
Comments
Iz has made a big difference in my life. While of polish heritage I am Hawaiian in heart. It is so rare that you hear music that is made of pur love. Iz may be gone but he will never be forgotten.
Name: Aaron Ka'apuni
Email: drumdog96792@yahoo.com
URL:
Date: Tuesday, April 09, 2002
Time: 08:46 PM
Comments
Braddah Iz and I go back in the middle stages of the Makaha Sons of Niihau. Hank's place in Kaimuki and at their Makaha home. I was always treated as family and he took me as a brother. I remember a jam we did at the Pokai Bay restroom with John Koko, Glen Foster, Jeff Nuuanu and a bunch of other guys. The acoustics was awesome and it was just pure kanikapila. Plenty of music, but most of all a sincere feeling of brotherhood. 1997 I lost two precious things, Israel in June and my dad in September. Braddah Iz, "You da man!" ALOHA!
Name: Maria Villegas
Email: hula_lady2000@yahoo.com
URL:
Date: Tuesday, April 09, 2002
Time: 04:09 PM
Comments
He was the best, I LOVE and ENJOY his music. He was "fo real, True Local Braddah, in heart and soul." His music will always bring me back to my memories of growing up on the big island...Maria
Name: staci j vigil
Email: staci_v@hotmail.com
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Date: Monday, April 08, 2002
Time: 07:40 AM
Comments
My mother introduced me to brudda iz's music last year and I must say it touches my heart brings so much emotion I am brought to tears with joy from listening to it. I wish I could thank him myself for all his music has done for me when i am sick or in good health what a terrible loss you must suffer as well as all who enjoy and rejoyce with his music thank you staci j vigil of colorado
Name: Buzz Holland
Email: bjholland2001@msn.com
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Date: Saturday, April 06, 2002
Time: 06:45 AM
Comments
Bruddah Iz, your music is still awesome. You are the epitome of aloha. I consider myself very fortunate to have lived in Makaha in the mid 80's and to have had the opportunity to see you perform many times with the Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau. I fondly remember the concerts at the Shell, the Sheraton Makaha, Waianae School and the annual Mother's Day Celebrations at the paneola west of Makaha Beach. I returned to Hawaii a couple of years ago and was very saddened to learn that you were gone and that I would not be able to see you in concert. I have all of your music and listen to it often. God Bless you and may the spirit of Hawaii live eternally in your music.
Mahalo, Buzz Holland Kingsville, Texas
Name: Nick Carabetta
Email: NinjaTurtle4321@aol.com
URL:
Date: Friday, April 05, 2002
Time: 02:38 PM
Comments
I first heard IZ on a commercial for E-toys, only I didn't realize it was him until I heard him on the Finding Forrester soundtrack. I was so inspired by his version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World that I took up the Ukulele. I've been trying to figure out the chords on his arrangement of Over The Rainbow but can't seem to do it. If anyone happens to know those chords and wouldn't mind taking the time to send them to me I would greatly appreciate it.
Nick Carabetta
Name: Susan Bell
Email: r.bell20@verizon.net
URL:
Date: Thursday, April 04, 2002
Time: 06:03 PM
Comments
My one true regret in life will be that I never got to meet you or hear your music live.....Yet everyday I get to be with you as I listen to your angelic voice on my stereo. You embodied the spirit of aloha and of Hawaii....your message of pure and unconditional love is a lesson for all people to hear and live each day. I am only a Hawaiian at heart, but the culture and beauty that is Hawaii has been a part of me for many years. Mahalo to you IZ for making life a little sweeter for so many people. I love you.
Name: Aleka Padilla
Email: Hmgrwnhawaiian@aol.com
URL: N/A
Date: Tuesday, April 02, 2002
Time: 05:12 PM
Comments
Iz has touched my life as well as my familys'.I just want to thank hin and his family for all that he has done!
Name: Teri Roberts
Email: ccaesar1@aol.com
URL:
Date: Tuesday, April 02, 2002
Time: 04:44 PM
Comments
Bruddah....you're missed.