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: Bev
Email: bevcro@gte.net
URL:
Date: Sunday, June 30, 2002
Time: 06:34 AM
Comments
Rest in peace IZ. Thanks for the music, bruddah.
Name: Andrew
Email: abrewster@strangebrewster.com
URL: www.strangebrewster.com
Date: Saturday, June 29, 2002
Time: 03:17 PM
Comments
I unfortunately like many other posts on here only came to know him after his death as a result of the movie "Finding Forrester" with the song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". That version/variation of the song is the only one I've ever heard that is in the same league Louis Armstrong's version of "What a Wonderful World". I bought the soundtrack to the movie because of that song and because I love Miles Davis' music alot as well.
I found alot of mp3's of Iz online yesterday that are great as well so I'm going to pick up a couple of his CD's later today. I'd encourage anyone who loves "Over The Rainbow" to check out some of his other music as well.
Anyway, as another post I read stated, hearing this man's sweet soul speaking through his voice in that song makes it obvious that somehow, somewhere, he is indeed still alive and smiling at this very moment as you're reading this. Thank you Iz.
Name: Kathleen Lamb
Email: LADYLINCS3@aol.com
URL:
Date: Saturday, June 29, 2002
Time: 01:45 PM
Comments
I live in the UK and have only recently discovered Israels' music, his voice moves me to tears, I wish he were here to tell and enable me to say thankyou for such purity of sound. May he rest in the peace of hea
Name: C Banks
Email: CBanks@tambcd.edu
URL:
Date: Saturday, June 29, 2002
Time: 07:18 AM
Comments
I am in total awe of the gentle sounds that I have only heards snips of on Amazon.com. I wish that I had been aware of his music long before now. I have ordered CDs after hearing "Over the Rainbow" from the music of "Meet Joe Black." I am sorry that we will not be hearing new recording of his beautiful voice, but at least we are privileged to hear his romance with music through the gift of technology.
Name: alexandra
Email:
URL:
Date: Saturday, June 29, 2002
Time: 03:00 AM
Comments
wow. i had never heard israel before. until i heard a beautiful song on dr. greene's last episode on ER. the song [over the rainbow/its a wonderful world] moved me to tears. i am so glad i found his music, although maybe too late.
Name: Rieko Sugai
Email: rieko401@yahoo.co.jp
URL:
Date: Saturday, June 29, 2002
Time: 12:39 AM
Comments
I'm writting from Japan. I really like his songs. When I'm listening his songs, It makes me feel good. I bought 'Facing Future` When I have went to Hawaii. It's so good. I love`Somewhere Over The Rainbow`. I just want to say to him `Thankyou!`
Name: Bob Adams
Email: bobadams57@yahoo.com
URL:
Date: Friday, June 28, 2002
Time: 02:02 PM
Comments
I heard his music for the first time this spring and I just love it.
Name: Stephen McGowan
Email: stephen_mcgowan@hotmail.com
URL:
Date: Friday, June 28, 2002
Time: 11:11 AM
Comments
I've only just discovered Israel, but I just love his music, so so refreshing and soon all my neighbourhood will know Israel's music in the land DownUnder.
Name: Leslie
Email: ltgooch@bellsouth.net
URL:
Date: Friday, June 28, 2002
Time: 06:50 AM
Comments
Listening to this wonderful man, has been a touch in the heart. I finally got his CD's. And to listen to Iz is to touch him, the music, the Islands. Home for me, which I miss dearly. I wish I met this man, but will some day. Listen to him, and you will be touched. Aloha
Name: Susan Baumgart
Email: susanb7@cox.net
URL:
Date: Thursday, June 27, 2002
Time: 06:49 PM
Comments
Blessings to IZ and his family. His music speaks directly to my heart, body, mind, and soul. I thank God for his time with us, and wish him God's blessings and the music of Mother Earth as he moves ahead in spirit.
Name: Joanne Stephens
Email: beachpony@earthlink.net
URL:
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Time: 07:12 PM
Comments
My husband & I just discovered Iz's beautiful music the night before last while watching "Meet Joe Black". We found his web site today & raced to store to buy his Facing Future CD. It truly touched our hearts & souls! After listening to it from beginning to end, I got back on the web site to read more about this incredible person & realized that today was the fifth anniversary of his passing. (Pretty amazing coincidence! ) His beautiful soul had touched me so deeply that I found my self crying my eyes out at my computer over his loss. He will live on forever in all of our hearts. Thank you for your beautiful music Iz & I hope to meet you on the other side some day! Mahalo Joanne
Name: Joe DiCioccio
Email: jsa95@aol.com
URL:
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Time: 06:50 PM
Comments
For your beautiful music, your voice of an angel, your spirit, let us hope that someday we all get the message... Mahalo
Name: KEITH Garcia
Email: keith@baldsound.com
URL: www.baldsound.com
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Time: 12:25 PM
Comments
What an amazing voice. It will live on forever and ever. Thank you for sharing your gift with us.
Name: Jana Lea
Email: gandjlea@aol.com
URL:
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Time: 09:51 AM
Comments
I just ordered the CD Facing Future. Read a wonderful article in the People magazine that his song was part to the ending to ER. I lived in Maui for 3 years before moving to Texas. I loved the Hawaiian music I heard in Kihei. thanks.
Name: D. Lauren Smith
Email: dlaurens@yahoo.com
URL:
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Time: 09:39 AM
Comments
I cannot stop listening to the song Hawai'i '78. It touches my soul deeply. Oh to have Bill Gates' type money to buy the land and give it back to the people of Hawai'i.
Thank you for the wonderful music!!!!
Name: Kihapiilani Scholtz
Email: ha-y-ninwa@msn.com
URL:
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Time: 09:17 AM
Comments
i am a big bruddah IZ fan who was fortunate to attend his funeral and now i am a HAWAIIAN living in Washington State. Every time me and my family listens to his music we get homesick. Just a little note for you IZ we love you and miss you. KEEP IT REAL CAUSE THE BRUDDAH IZ-REAL! To end with the words of a true angel "HAWAIIAN".
Name: walt brown
Email: musicube@yahoo.com
URL:
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2002
Time: 09:42 PM
Comments
IZ had the heart of a warrior,the body of a sumo wrestler and the voice of angel. His music lives on and is forever new. Take care Bruddah and we'll see you one day on the otherside.
Mahalo
Name: Richard Paul
Email: rixxard@cs.com
URL:
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2002
Time: 07:33 PM
Comments
I just discovered who sang that soul moving Music from the Grand finaly of E.R., Last Night 06/24/02. I played This song (Over the rainbow) for 4 hours this Morning, as I drove to Work. When I first heared this song by IZ, it made me Cry as It was my Mom's Most faverite song in the World. and When I heard this Angelic Voice Singing this, I broke Down! Remembering My Mother.
When I came home from work today I decided to go on the internet to find out More of this Man with the Voice of an Angel, only to find that he'd already passed on to Heaven, on the same day I lost my Mother. and I also found that IZ, and I was born on the Same Day. I feel lucky for me because I now have IZ's Music in my hart, and can hear him until I meet him in Heaven and can hear him sing with all the ages of Angels. How Happy all you must be to have had the privlage to have known and loved him.
Be strong all his Children and family, because you will all be together again in god's Time.
With Love!
Rich.
Name: woody kalohe woodward
Email: rykersdad@hotmail.com
URL: msn.com
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2002
Time: 05:50 PM
Comments
my wife just returned from kailua kona and she brought back the facing future cd and i was an instant fan i was also sad to find out that iz had passed away but i know in my heart that iz and gabby are playing da kine music for our creator aloha for now woody
Name: David Rodrigues
Email: davidr@pacbell.net
URL:
Date: Monday, June 24, 2002
Time: 08:20 PM
Comments
IZ is somewhere over the rainbow.
Peace.
Name: Guy Pastorius
Email: luvislandgirls@aol.com
URL:
Date: Saturday, June 22, 2002
Time: 01:23 PM
Comments
In loving memory of bruddah Iz! I'm from the mainland but have spent many years in Hawaii. I wish I could have met this great man! I'm not of Hawaiian blood, but my heart is true, and I love da Islands like a true Hawaiian! I want to bless his family and to thank God, for bringing into this world such a wonderful teacher and spirit!!I live in the mainland now but wish I was in hawaii where I feel the spirit and "live aloha". Peace to you bruddah Iz... Mahalo
Name: Dave Larose
Email: dave@paccollege.com
URL: www.paccollege.com
Date: Friday, June 21, 2002
Time: 09:55 PM
Comments
Israel's haunting, eerie melodic tones have been flaoting around me like a vague nimbus for years without me really zeroing in on what I was hearing. Then this Spring the television show 'ER' used IZ's Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World to it's dramatic perfection. I then did a search on the Net and all the sounds snapped into place for me... Meet Joe Black, Finding Forrester, eToys.com, a trip that I made to Fiji for my Honeymoon... it seems to me that his soulful intonations have been a part of my life for so long... I now know what has to be added to my life's music library, and somehow, am certain that it always was and will be... keep paddling that canoe, we'll all eventually be pulled to you bruddah IZ.
Name: Betty Ann
Email: karrbetty@hotmail.com
URL:
Date: Friday, June 21, 2002
Time: 01:54 PM
Comments
Just love the 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' rendition on Facing Forward. What a beautiful voice. I often listen to this CD over dinner ... very soothing. I found IZ when I watched Meet Joe Black and heard Somewhere Over the Rainbow on that sound track. Love it! Rest in peace and know you still bring much joy to a troubled world.
Name: Bill Paterson
Email: xyz08086@yahoo.com
URL:
Date: Friday, June 21, 2002
Time: 07:48 AM
Comments
Iz music is so beautiful that it hurts. It's almost too much to bear.
Name: JACK CIALLELLA
Email: JCIALLELLA@VALERO.COM
URL:
Date: Friday, June 21, 2002
Time: 04:41 AM
Comments
As a lover hawaiian music, I just found Iz's music to be enlighting, touching, moving, and enjoyable. I lost my 20 year daughter to a sudden heart aliment 3 years ago and everytime I listen to Iz's music it brings good memories of him and my daughter.
I am Hawaiian at heart thats why I love Iz and everything he stands for. His wife and family must be awfully proud of Iz as his music still lives on even here in Pennsylvania.
Name: j peoples
Email: dakie1@attbi.com
URL:
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002
Time: 05:59 PM
Comments
as one of you said.... he renewed my aloha spirit... sometimes... we forget the things that really matter.... Never forget the Aloha Spirit that lives in each of us... Born in Hawai'i. Hawaiian at heart. Thanks IZ! You da best!
Name: Penny Hill
Email: duffie.hill@att.net
URL:
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002
Time: 05:09 AM
Comments
my life continues every day and as an artist i continue to discover new things but the impact that hearing IZ'music and heart made upon me remains as strong and true as the first second i heard his voice and message thank you for your efforts to make his mesage available to others without commercial influence...
don't know how to spell it but but mahalo Penny
Name: Cheryl Thomas
Email: Cthom1206@aol.com
URL:
Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002
Time: 03:26 PM
Comments
I love his music...it makes me happy
Name: paul gibson
Email:
URL:
Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Time: 07:49 PM
Comments
I was so inspired by his "over the rainbow" song, I was compelled to learn more about IZ. I feel part of me in his voice, a part of me that has been held deep within me until now. I will hear his voice forever!!!!
Name: Joe Holm
Email: jdholm3@cox.net
URL:
Date: Monday, June 17, 2002
Time: 06:49 AM
Comments
I found him like others, thru the ebay commercial and ER. Over The Rainbow had always been a hopeful dreamy song. Now I hear his version, so sad, it is a song of loss and passing. Such a beautiful, soft voice, I am sure he was like that in life.
Name: Randol Kemp
Email: lodnar@juno.com
URL:
Date: Saturday, June 15, 2002
Time: 05:48 AM
Comments
I feel so moved whenever I hear Somewhere Over the Rainbow...
Pure and Holy.....
Name: THE MADDYS
Email: TMADDY@GVTEL.COM
URL:
Date: Saturday, June 15, 2002
Time: 04:02 AM
Comments
WHAT A WONDERFULL TALENT,HE WILL BE TRULY MISSED BY THE WORLD.I CAN ONLY PONDER ON THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC HE HAD YET TO SING.
Name: Dnitra & Brennan
Email: ayersauto@turquoise.net
URL:
Date: Friday, June 14, 2002
Time: 04:29 PM
Comments
Aloha.
I just wanted to say how important Bruddah IZs music is to myself and my son Brennan (5). We listen to his CDs all the time, and because of that, Brennan seems to have more of an appreciation for Hawaii each day. He said this morning that when he grows up, he would like to teach people Hawaiian Culture so that Bruddah IZ would be happy. He once asked me if he was Hawaiian, because he was born here. It was hard to explain to a three year old. But a friend of ours told him that he was not Hawaiian blood, but Hawaiian heart. I think Bruddah IZ would have liked that.
We recently traveled to the Mainland, driving across Oklahoma and parts of California, and in each rental car, we listened to Bruddahs tape. We truly felt as though we had brought a bit of Hawaii with us, and couldnt wait to return.
Isreal is our Hawaiian Supa'man, and will always be remembered by our family.
Mahalo.
Name: Becky Hoekstra
Email: fiddlefaddle@skyenet.net
URL:
Date: Friday, June 14, 2002
Time: 03:25 AM
Comments
I have laughed and cried and danced and cried some more since I bought my first CD of IZ one week ago. Thank you for sharing your music with us Israel.
Name: Leinani
Email: Meru137@aol.com
URL:
Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2002
Time: 11:15 PM
Comments
Bruddah IZ We all miss u and ur music, even if u r dead u will live on in each and everyone of us who listen to ur music and in every new born hawaiian in this world ur words touched us all and made most of the kids open there eyes and learn more about there land and culture....Mahalo to u bruddah IZ for u was da best singer that lived and will always live.......till the end of the world...
Name: GERI SUIDA
Email: gsuida.ssuida@verizon.net
URL:
Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2002
Time: 06:45 AM
Comments
I really enjoy his music. I only became aware of this talent when they used his version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on the season finally of ER.
May he rest in peace knowing that his music is still bringing joy to us all.
Geri
Name: Maureen Mooney
Email: MaureenMM@aol.com
URL:
Date: Monday, June 10, 2002
Time: 11:36 AM
Comments
Hello. I've never done anything like this before, but I feel absolutely compelled. I discovered Iz's music at the end of a movie soundtrack. The credits were too fast for me to catch the name so I just searched the web under "Over the Rainbow" and found enough info to order "Facing Future" through Amazon. I listened to the CD over and over on a long car drive Saturday and just could not stop crying tears of happiness and longing even though I don't understand one word of Hawaiian. Ode to Joy is the only thing that comes to mind - being so blown away that the music transports you. I LOVE all kinds of music but this kind of reaction is very rare indeed and must be treasured. I wish very much that I'd been aware of his music while he was still alive. I would have been on a plane to Hawaii at a moment's notice to catch him in concert. What joyful memories for all who who did! Thank you Iz. There ARE angels and you clearly were a treasure to behold.
Name: Dan Silverio
Email: silverid1225@yahoo,com
URL:
Date: Monday, June 10, 2002
Time: 10:03 AM
Comments
Very informative site. Thank you from people like me who are just discovering the music of I. Kamakawiwo'ole. I just wish you could have some links with sites where I could buy some of his CD's. I know you are trying to make this site just as a tribute only but I think there is room for the links that I requested to further keep his memory strong not only for the folks that know him and of him, but also for people llike me who are just discovered his great music. Mahalo!
Name: oboltyo (DHB)
Email: oboltyo@fastmail.fm
URL:
Date: Monday, June 10, 2002
Time: 05:12 AM
Comments
so sorry to find out that this man has left us. I only now came across his music and was so intrigued by it. My best wishes to his family and friends.
Name: Susan Bell
Email: r.bell20@verizon.net
URL: Hawaiian at heart
Date: Sunday, June 09, 2002
Time: 07:00 PM
Comments
I just returned from 3 weeks on the Garden Isle with my husband and 4 yr old son. I was very happy to finally complete my collection of Iz's CDs and to get the video. I brought it back to our rental house and waited for a quiet moment alone to watch it....I actually could not watch it for several days because I knew it would make me sad to finally see and experience IZ's amazing talent. I was not disappointed....I never met this man or even saw him until this time and yet I wept. No music has such a profound effect on me......the ability to make me so nostalgic for the Islands, happy and joyful and melancholy all at the same time. I want to thank Bruddah IZ for his legacy of love, compassion, tolerance and incredible humanity. His message is a very important one for all of us to live by. He loved his Island home and all it's people, and all his many fans....how lucky for all of us. I read the messages here weekly and I am astounded by all the peoples of the world who are touched by his music. Mahalo for maintaining this site. My most heartfelt thoughts go out to IZ,s wife and daughter and all his family, friends and fans. We will never forget you dear Isreal....NEVER.
Name: Denis Rodrigues Silva
Email: denisdacopasa@ig.com.br
URL:
Date: Sunday, June 09, 2002
Time: 04:35 PM
Comments
I'm Brazilian. I don't understand English.I'm using a dictionary. I knew music's Israel listening brazilian's radio called Guarani FM in this year. The music was "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful Word" and then I'm in love. I enchanted whit his voice, his song. I try to buy his disk record but I don't to encounter. When I knew what he died I to grow silent and my heart to grieve. i wish that Israel and all his family have peace and happiness.
Name: Anne Barsi
Email: queensfancy@yahoo.com
URL:
Date: Sunday, June 09, 2002
Time: 04:23 PM
Comments
Israel's music was brought to my attention through a commercial just after my daughter was born . . . only a few seconds of him humming Over the Rainbow, and I was so touched by his voice. I found him through a TV Guide article, sadly it was a note of his passing. My daughter and I listen to his music often. His music brings me such joy and serenity, yet at the same time I often find myself tearful that he has passed and his voice has been silenced by his journey home to Heaven. Surely, Heaven has been made even more delightful with his presence. I wish all his family and friends peace, love, health and happiness. You are in my thoughts when I listen to the music, and I have no doubt he watches over you all with great love. Aloha
Name: Tom Green
Email: kokopeli@zekes.com
URL:
Date: Saturday, June 08, 2002
Time: 04:22 PM
Comments
I fell in love with native Hawaii music when a friend turned me on to the Brother's Caziemero in 1978. I just discovered Israel's music this year when my family went to Hawaii without me but brought me back "Lost in Iz World". What music! While 'Over the Rainbow' is a all time masterpiece I will cherish hearing forever, I also enjoyed Iz's version of " 'Ulili E " which is also recorded by the Brothers Cazimero on their 'Follow Me' album. Growing up in the dry desert lands of southern Arizona makes me very appreciative of the talents of Iz and other native Hawaii artists. May the family and close friends of Iz smile and have peaceful and prosperous lives. I can't wait to get to heaven to hear Iz in person.
Name: Wayne Breedlove
Email: pwbreed@attbi.com
URL:
Date: Saturday, June 08, 2002
Time: 12:39 PM
Comments
I mearly wanted to say THANKYOU
Name: David B. Allard
Email: csdballard@
URL: worldnet.att.net
Date: Saturday, June 08, 2002
Time: 08:08 AM
Comments
I first heard IZ's music when I came home to Hawaii with my family. I thought it to be very beautiful and I enjoyed listening to it. I heard the song "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" on the ER episode "On The Beach", and it brought back so many memories. May we all remember the gift you left for us. Thank you IZ,and may God keep you in his hands
Aloha...
Name: Heather Reavis
Email: heather_amie@yahoo.com
URL:
Date: Friday, June 07, 2002
Time: 07:22 PM
Comments
This morning as I drove home from dropping my husband off at work I turned the raido on and they were talking about this song shortly after they played it and all at once I rembered when I was younger My nieghbor Nana who was very good friends with Don Ho would play this song and how happy it made me feel to hear it and when I heard it today it gave me that feeling again
Name: Vincent
Email: vinz2007@hotmail.com
URL:
Date: Thursday, June 06, 2002
Time: 11:01 PM
Comments
I m only a young french who have just discovered Iz, but i have never heard before in my life such astrng voice. Each time i hear one of his songs, my mind leaves my body and goes in some peacefull and hopefull world... Thanks to Iz. Vincent
Name: sylvia Jean
Email: sylviaja@rrsan.com
URL:
Date: Thursday, June 06, 2002
Time: 07:27 PM
Comments
awesome person . fantastic music
Name: sylvia Jean
Email: sylviaja@rrsan.com
URL:
Date: Thursday, June 06, 2002
Time: 07:26 PM
Comments
Please send news letter
Name: Kathy
Email: ub402920@hotmail.com
URL:
Date: Thursday, June 06, 2002
Time: 12:41 PM
Comments
I've just discovered IZ's music, I love it, it takes me back to the islands. I wish he were still around to make beautiful music for us.
Name: Kathryn T. Molohon, Ph.D.
Email: kmolohon@nickel.laurentian.ca
URL:
Date: Thursday, June 06, 2002
Time: 05:57 AM
Comments
Thank you for your outstanding contributions to music, and to life itself.
Name: Matt Gallant
Email: bluemelon@clinic.net
URL:
Date: Thursday, June 06, 2002
Time: 05:52 AM
Comments
We are thinking about using "Somewhere over the rainbow/What a wonderful world" for our wedding song. His version is absolutely wondeful.
Name: Marie Telepneff
Email: marie.telepneff@hyprotech.com
URL:
Date: Wednesday, June 05, 2002
Time: 05:19 PM
Comments
Like many people, my husband, Father Gregory (a Russian Orthodox priest in San Francisco) and I discoved Israel's sweet voice posthumously. We have caught up with his gift to the world, but are saddened by the loss of such a wonderful human being and talent. As Orthodox Christians, we will continue to honor Israel's memory with heartfelt prayers. God's love surely touched him and will continue to do so forevermore. Most Sincerely, Matushka Maria Telepneff Holy Virgin Cathedral, San Francisco, California
Name: Stacy Kreel
Email: stacylynnkreel@yahoo.com
URL: MSN
Date: Wednesday, June 05, 2002
Time: 05:16 PM
Comments
Thank you for everything and I just want to say you made the best hawaiian music out of all the ones I've heard and you're cd "N Dis Life" #2 really sing my feelings because you were right in the life you were loved by me.
Name: AJ ALANIZ
Email: BIGALANIZ@AOL.COM
URL:
Date: Wednesday, June 05, 2002
Time: 06:13 AM
Comments
I HAVE JUST DICOVERED HIS MUSIC. WHAT A WONDERFUL LEGACY AND GIFT IT IS!
I WILL LISTEN TO THIS AND DREAM FONDLY OF HOW IT MAKE ME FEEL
Name: Sheryl Barabad Stolworthy
Email: Sheryl_B_Stolworthy@msn.com
URL:
Date: Tuesday, June 04, 2002
Time: 10:47 AM
Comments
I finally discovered the singer of the most beautiful rendition of "Over the Rainbow" late last night while reading a magazine! I'd always wondered who's voice and ukulele could touch my heart the way this singer did! I'm glad to finally know the name of this talented and gifted artist, but I am sorry to hear that he had passed away in 1997 (to my surprise). My condolences to Mr. Kamawiwo'ole's family. May he rest in peace.
a new fan, Sheryl Barabad Stolworthy Glendale, Arizona 03-June-02
Name: Rita Ann Gaebleein
Email: es_gaebelein@lgca.org
URL:
Date: Monday, June 03, 2002
Time: 09:45 AM
Comments
I have only recently become familiar with the music of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. I guess I should begin to tell you that the song "over the rainbow" has a very special meaning for me. and when I heard Isreal's version of the song...I just fell in love with it, and was compelled to find and purchase the album on which it is recorded. In searching for information on the artist and the album I discovered that he had died. I almost feel that I've lost someone. I think my mother has guided me to this wonderful album... Now a brief explaination of why I love this song so much.. Soon after my mothers death (about a week or so) I had a dream in which she was cradeling me in her arms (as you would an infant) even though I was an adult, and she was singing Over the Rainbow to me, I could feel her and smell her...the dream was so real that I Know my mother was there that night. So, now everytime I hear that song it brings tears to my eyes (a good thing) and I feel close to her...To hear Isreal's version is just the most wonderful that I have ever heard...it is so haunting and beautiful...the way it was ment to be performed and heard...I am so sorry for your loss...I wish I had been aware of his music and passion for his land befor his death. And now I will continue to discover his music and his haunting lyrics
Name: Silone.L.Fitiao
Email: Keilanipearl@aol.com
URL:
Date: Monday, June 03, 2002
Time: 05:06 AM
Comments
hello, I'm Keilani Pearl Fitiao. i'm from Long Beach, California.
Name: John & Machelle Lorf
Email: jlorf@cwiconsulting.com
URL: http://www.cwiconsulting.com
Date: Sunday, June 02, 2002
Time: 06:39 PM
Comments
Your music has touched our lives in a way, which no one has ever done through song.
Mahalo
Name: Barbara Zeller
Email: bzbbaz@hotmail.com
URL: http:
Date: Sunday, June 02, 2002
Time: 02:32 PM
Comments
Oh, how I miss this man, his beautiful voice, his ideals, his personality, and above all, that he is no longer with us. I know that it is selfish, of me, but, I can only imagine, how his wife, and daughter miss him still. It is like an open wound that does not heal, with the passage of time.
Is Gaylord, still around? The one who played keyboard, for Izreal?
Please keep this page open, and let us all remember him.
Name: Theron Unrath
Email: docdpmd@aol.com
URL:
Date: Sunday, June 02, 2002
Time: 03:52 AM
Comments
Just love the song Over the Rainbow and I looked up to see who the artist was and found out that he had died in 1997. I think this was a great lose not only to his wife and daughter but also to Hawaii and the World. I listen to his mucis when ever I'm in my truck, if his wife and daughter have a web site I would love to e-mail with them.
Name: Scott Elve
Email:
URL:
Date: Saturday, June 01, 2002
Time: 07:16 PM
Comments
My Biggest Insperation in music and in life.
Name: Beth
Email: bethiea@aol.com
URL:
Date: Saturday, June 01, 2002
Time: 03:06 PM
Comments
I first heard Iz singing "Over the Rainbow" on a PBS promotional spot (I used to work for PBS and would see these promos over and over again !) I always thought it was such a beautiful, poignant version of the song. Then, of course, came the recent episode of ER where this same song is playing as Dr. Greene, in a scene more beautiful and hopeful than sad, slips into death from a brain tumor. I had no idea that the man who did this lovely music was, himself, already deceased. Even though he's no longer with us here on Earth, I hope he somehow knows how much his music has touched many, many people !
Name: Betty
Email: pnbmills@aol.com
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Date: Saturday, June 01, 2002
Time: 01:02 PM
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I hated Judy Garland's Over the Rainbow until I heard Isreal,s. His voice and music is like warm honey even if the words aren't right. I have played it so much until I have the whole family singing it. He could have hummed the phone book and it would have been fine. So young and so much warmth comes through. I never knew the man, but I hear the kindest spirit when I listen. Thank you
Name: Mark & Yesenia Ruiz
Email: Mark@rolla.us
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Date: Saturday, June 01, 2002
Time: 08:51 AM
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Just wanted to say how much we enjoy his music, we played it for our unborn daughter and now that she is 3 months old, I know we will enjoy it for years to come as a family.
Grace and Peace
The Ruiz Family