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: Mary Waahila
Email: MaWaahila1@apl.com
URL:
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Time: 04:16 PM
Comments
if there is anyone who lives in San Diego CA here is a storewhere you can get some of his things or they can tell you where you can fine it is called Motu in mission beach hope this helps out we loved him too.
Mary Waahila
Name: Nadine Makuakane
Email: nadinema@hawaii.rr,com
URL:
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Time: 01:21 PM
Comments
I would like to give my deepest sympathy and blessing to the family of IZ. I just wanted to let his family and his spirit know that my boyfriend and I listen to Israel's CD almost everyday after work. The sound of his voice and music gives me a peace of mind and helps my boyfriend to relieve all of his stress. my boyfriend is currently in the military and will be leaving to Iraq soon and I would like to do something special for him. I would like to find out how I can buy an Israel t-shirt or memorable item other than his CD's or videos because we currently own all of them. It would be really make me happy if I could do something special and help to keep his name alive. mahalo and god bless, Nadine Makuakane
Name: Sherry Boeckelmann
Email: boeckelmann@nsurg.wustl.edu
URL:
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Time: 11:04 AM
Comments
Aloha, and God bless you Iz. I was fortunate enough to live in Hawaii in Waianae from 1969 to 1972, and remember the beauty of that place. Your voice was so beautiful and your music lives on, as you do in our hearts.
Mahalo
Name: Tiffie
Email: Hapagoose@aol.com
URL: www.xanga.com/hapagoose
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Time: 11:04 PM
Comments
He has a nice relaxing voice. Otherwise real nice voice to lisetn to especially his, song over the rainbow.. His songs were heard many times in alot of Hollywood movies. Real cute! I miss him..!! alohas
Name: Jacek Kolacz
Email: jacekkolacz@yahoo.com
URL:
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Time: 03:39 PM
Comments
Your music is great. New fan. Wish there was more of it.
Name: murat g.
Email: murtinova@hotmail.com
URL: 212.58.4.43
Date: Monday, March 29, 2004
Time: 07:58 AM
Comments
i just heard his music, maybe a few minutes before. only one song that i have listened touched me so much that i wanted to search his name on google. when i learned that he died so long ago, i felt very sorry. His music is great, now i will go out and buy all the albums that i can find and enjoy the music. i am really really sorry to hear that he died. see you israel
Name: Bill Tracy
Email: bill@btstudios.com
URL: http://www.btstudios.com
Date: Monday, March 29, 2004
Time: 07:53 AM
Comments
I recently discovered the great music of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, just to discover that he is no longer with us! I was so saddened, but I felt is was so nice that in a way he will live forever through his amazing music. Just look at my case. He is making fans even after he is gone. I sure am one of them.
Bill Tracy
Name: Mary
Email: maryemontoya@hotmail.com
URL:
Date: Saturday, March 27, 2004
Time: 11:22 AM
Comments
I unfortunately discovered "IZ" after his passing but cannot remember when any music has touched my soul as his has (and I come from a generation that had Elvis, the Beatles and many other great performers) but not one of them compared to IZ - not just that angelic voice but his "mana" What a loss but luckily we have his CD and DVD ( I think I own all of his and those with the Makaha sons) Mahalo and a hui hau brother IZ
Name: Alex
Email: info@aaadiving.com
URL: http://www.aaadiving.com/
Date: Friday, March 26, 2004
Time: 09:51 PM
Comments
I love listening to this CD when I am on the crapper. Speaking of crapper could this guy use a normal crapper ?
Name: Da Boys 4 Tha North SHore
Email: surfinghard@hotmail.com
URL:
Date: Friday, March 26, 2004
Time: 09:48 PM
Comments
This fat boy could sing ! Its a dam shame no one in Hawaii can sing better than this fattie.
Name: Karen Marie Holliday-Jaramillo
Email: holliday10@charter.net
URL:
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2004
Time: 10:02 PM
Comments
You know when you find something so cool ,you share it with everybody in your circle . This man's music is "one of those things " . I was so sad to find that he had already passed . I'm am very glad he left is spirit of his music with us ,for us to find . Thank you so much for the love you left with us .Mahalo . Karen Marie Holliday-Jaramillo mother of 8
Name: lawrence Molina
Email: ljm19@pitt.edu
URL:
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2004
Time: 02:25 PM
Comments
Bruddah Iz is alive and well in all of us. Bruddah Iz, You have been keeping me going all the way out here in PA while in school. The winters here are harsh bruddah. My girlfriend and I can't wait to come back home. "may the road rise to meet you, the wind be always at your back, and until we finally meet may our Lord always keep you in the palm of his hand." MALAMA i KE OLA!
Name: José Luis Álvarez Fernández
Email: joseaf@confluencia.net
URL: www.alvarez.cjb.net
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2004
Time: 01:59 PM
Comments
You'll like to know that Iz's "over the rainbow" is being prominently featured in the self spots of the spanish national TV channel "Antena 3".
Name: mary waahila
Email: MaWaahila1@aol.com
URL:
Date: Monday, March 22, 2004
Time: 04:18 PM
Comments
thank you so much i will miss you i just found out we had lost you you are miss by all with love mary waahila san diego CA
Name: Wanda Certo
Email: Wcerto@cs.com
URL:
Date: Monday, March 22, 2004
Time: 09:43 AM
Comments
I am from Cleveland, Ohio. I heard Iz's music on amazon.com and fell in love with his beautiful voice and the songs he sings. I have never felt so touched by any music ever. Because of his music, my husband and I saved our hard earned dollars to visit Hawai'i this past February. I was so please to see Iz's music for sale everywhere we went. I am sorry I never got to meet him, but be certain that his music has brought aloha to my husband my hearts. Thank you Bruddah Iz. God keep you happy.
Name: Jose Maria Tome
Email: sedadi@yahoo.com
URL:
Date: Monday, March 22, 2004
Time: 08:56 AM
Comments
Few days ago I was watching TV and just by chance I heard your Somewher Over the Rainbow on a TV announce. Inmediatly I began to search on the net whom that wonderful version belonged. Quickly I discovered you and began to learn about you and your music. It´s a pity you aren't among us anymore but your voice and your song will live in our hearts forever. Thanks IZ wherever you'll be now. GRACIAS AMIGO.(You'll understand).
Name: Daniel Cochin
Email: daniel.cochin@noos.fr
URL:
Date: Sunday, March 21, 2004
Time: 05:42 PM
Comments
(Daniel again, my message was too long. I'll put another email adress while I'm there)
Jonathan Swift once wrote "whe have just enough religion to hate one another, and not enough to ove one another".
John Steinbeck wrote "singing and praying, well, it's one same thing" in the Grapes of Wrath.
just like Tom Joad, Iz will be there always.
in the way we look at birds playing over the ocean, in the way we hear a baby laughing, in the way we say "I love you" without saying.
I am grateful.
,o)
Name: Daniel Cochin
Email:
URL:
Date: Sunday, March 21, 2004
Time: 05:40 PM
Comments
(Daniel again, my message was too long. I'll put another email adress while I'm there)
Jonathan Swift once wrote "whe have just enough religion to hate one another, and not enough to ove one another".
John Steinbeck wrote "singing and praying, well, it's one same thing" in the Grapes of Wrath.
just like Tom Joad, Iz will be there always. In the way we look at birds playing over the ocean, in the way we hear a baby laughing, in the way we say "I love you" without saying.
Name: Daniel Cochin
Email: danieldeparis@yahoo.com
URL:
Date: Sunday, March 21, 2004
Time: 05:39 PM
Comments
Well...
I see hearts blossoming here under the touch of one angel... pure light...
humans turned into angels by one of us.
ears turned into tears...
Izzy vs hard heavy vs light darkness vs Light
I too have ended up here through an already intense creation, Finding Forrester.
at the other end of this road is Facing Future.
and grief. I shed tears of grief before a sorry surprise...
but also, tears of Hope, tears of love. tears of Life.
Our ears will forever feel a soul made sound - the sheer, gentle wail of a human heart reconciled with God's Creation, beyond words, beyond frontiers. No need fo words.
this is pure human feeling. this is sacred stuff.
There is a singer that my heart and soul follow.
In a song he asks "and if God will send his angels... where do we go?"
Let us ask our ears.
~~~~~~
from Paris, France,
thank you.
be blessed, you all.
,o)
Name: Brandi
Email: bnstutsy@hotmail.com
URL:
Date: Sunday, March 21, 2004
Time: 11:02 AM
Comments
As day light falls on a new mornings day. And all the angels in heaven above are singing softly in the bitter sweetness of a new begining. The sound of the angels heard far and wide do not compare to Bruddah IZ, For God gave him a voice with more beauty then any angel could contain in thier soft angelic voices.
Name: Garry Lehmann
Email: gklehmann2004@yahoo.ca
URL:
Date: Sunday, March 21, 2004
Time: 01:35 AM
Comments
My partner and I of 6 years are currently contemplating a seperation. It is a very painful time for me and the song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" has come my way during our troubles and hit me in a very emotional way, since it encapsulates our whole relationship. I am thankful for it though, forever it will hold a special place in my heart and no other version can do the same - It's Beautiful.
Name: Garry Lehmann
Email: gklehmann2004@yahoo.ca
URL:
Date: Sunday, March 21, 2004
Time: 01:31 AM
Comments
My partner and I of 6 years are currently contemplating a seperation. It is a very painful time for me and the song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" has come my way during our troubles and hit me in a very emotional way, since encapsulates our whole relationship. I am thankful for it though, forever it will hold a special place in my heart and no other version can do the same - It's Beautiful.
Name: Ben & Val ( skippy)
Email: b-vgillick@ukonline.co.uk
URL:
Date: Saturday, March 20, 2004
Time: 11:44 AM
Comments
It's such a relief to hear such a calming voice.
Name: kaitlin
Email: hawaiansrfr@sbcglobal.net
URL:
Date: Friday, March 19, 2004
Time: 07:58 PM
Comments
I really love all the songs from IZ. right now I noly have two cd's, but im hoping to get more!! It's cool, because i have family in hawaii. So, i go there every summer vacation. IZ is one of my favorite singers, and i'm so sorry to hear that he died. If he were to still live today, i'm sure he would have made alot more great hawaiian hits. I'm sure he still lives in all our hearts, and will forever. Aloha, Kaitlin
Name: Alex Hayes
Email: scartissue41@sbcglobal.net
URL:
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2004
Time: 07:29 PM
Comments
I grew up in Hawaii. Me and my family listened to him all the time. I heard his song and I learned to play Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Its a great song and IZ has touched everyone who has listened to his songs.
Name: Matt Parrish
Email: MattParrish@hotmail.com
URL:
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2004
Time: 07:09 PM
Comments
Somewhere over the rainbow .... I first heard it on E.R. and was touched by it. Then, i heard it again in a film (i guess it was Finding Forrester) but wasn't able to catch who performed it. I just saw 50 First Dates, heard it again, and sat thru the credits with my mother just to find the artist. I can honestly say this is the single most moving song i have ever heard. Thank you for sharing your gift with us Iz. I hope wherever you are you know how much you have touched us.
Matt
Name: Jon Upham
Email: joncupham@hotmail.com
URL:
Date: Thursday, March 11, 2004
Time: 05:52 PM
Comments
Hi my name is Jon and I am very pleased to send you a letter saying that Mr. Kamakawiwo'ole has touched my heart with his songs and that I just wanted to say he had a voice of an angel and I hope that i will meet him some day in heaven May God Bless Sincerely Jon C Upham Jr...
Name: MZ. shannon
Email: shaze2boys@aol.com
URL:
Date: Monday, March 08, 2004
Time: 04:13 PM
Comments
I would just like to say i cried when i heard, and it was just this weekend. I put my boys to sleep as a lullaby to iz, it was the most peaceful and calming sound that we heard in this life to listen to brother iz. My son is 12 years old now doin a report on louis armstrong...and I told him that brother iz(as known in our household) has passed away...i hope it is no offense that in 2004 we have just found out that someone that we listen to has passed. i want to say thank you...
Name: Mike Manieri Jr.
Email: mmanieri@hq.dir.ca.gov
URL: MSN
Date: Monday, March 08, 2004
Time: 01:35 PM
Comments
I miss IZ alot. His wonderfully sweet and relaxing voice and the way he playfully interpreted his music from the sublime to the moving and passionate will never be forgotten. Although I am not Hawaiian (Italian-American) I appreciated his charming way of making me, a mainlander feel as though the islands are my home too!
IZ..wherever you are.....keep those heavenly melodies coming. Maybe we'll meet again in the hereafter.
mm
Name: Denny Dillon
Email: jazysaurus@hotmail.com
URL:
Date: Monday, March 08, 2004
Time: 08:01 AM
Comments
My heart resonates deeply with your su' pa man song Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.
Peace to you and your beloved.
Most Respectfully
Name: Wajdi A
Email:
URL: www.tresw.net
Date: Sunday, March 07, 2004
Time: 10:29 AM
Comments
+ Somewhere over the rainbow there's a star calle IZ +
Name: Diane Strange
Email: sdstrange0722@aol.com
URL:
Date: Sunday, March 07, 2004
Time: 09:18 AM
Comments
I have just discovered the incredible voice of IZ. I Feel so at peace when I listen to his music. I just have to get all his CD's now. Thank you God for giving us IZ, if only for 38 short years.
Name: thomas hargus
Email: THARGUS@COX.NET
URL:
Date: Thursday, March 04, 2004
Time: 05:39 AM
Comments
great joy and thanks to izzy for "Over the Rainbow" my kids listen to it every day at school. it is played every time it is time to change classes they love it.
the world has lost another great one my regards to you may he live forever in the hearts of the young and old alike.
Name: Po'okela Kei Olsen
Email: anglebosh@yahoo.com
URL:
Date: Monday, March 01, 2004
Time: 04:42 PM
Comments
Hey uso, we all gonna miss your music cuz, you da greatest and one of da best da islands have to offer. i know when we get up to heaven you gonna be singin with da angels teaching dem da true spirit of da islands. god bless.
Name: Kimberly
Email: Dolphin_power_17@hotmail.com
URL: N-A
Date: Monday, March 01, 2004
Time: 02:30 PM
Comments
Bro Iz was a big inspiration when I moved to the Hawaiin islands in 1995! I was only like7 but I remember his big heart and loving aloha spirit! He was a big influence on me and dancing hula and learning how to chant and sing in Hawaiian! Even thoug I was always the odd one out in Hula class because I was a white keiki I always felt the aloha when I danced and chanted! Even now 10 years later I am 17 and I love his Cd's and I love to dance to his music! My kumu in Washington said I have the Aloha and to never loose it no matter were I go and I have Bro. Iz to thank for that. My you alwayz be remembered and your music live on. I love you Iz. may everyone experience you like i did.......
Name: Daniel (Kaniela)
Email: pearlfeathers@hotmail.com
URL:
Date: Monday, March 01, 2004
Time: 07:03 AM
Comments
Although I may have heard "Rainbow" when I saw Meet Joe Black, it affected the most when I heard it on a Washington D.C. Jazz station on Feb. 13th, 2003, four days after returning from a stay in Sea View/Kahena near Pahoa on Hilo side. I just saw 50 First Dates last night, and there he was again, and again Aloha flows from my tear ducts. I'm sorry to hear Iz died so young (my current age), and one year to the day before my son was born... I'll play "Facing Future" for him and see how he likes it... maybe he's got a new nickname coming. Mahalo nui loa, Iz, for da connection to Aloha. - Daniel