LA'U ROSA (My rose) - Talofa Samoans with Bill Sevesi & His Islanders скачать в хорошем качестве

LA'U ROSA (My rose) - Talofa Samoans with Bill Sevesi & His Islanders

Bill Sevesi is one of the great, yet little known, musicians of New Zealand. He is a musician and master of the steel guitar who helped popularise Hawaiian style music in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. He was born in Tonga and has over 20 albums to his credit during a career spanning six decades. He began playing the Hawaiian Steel Guitar in 1936, and in later years his band 'Wilfred Jeffs and the Islanders' became 'Bill Sevesi and the Islanders.' He has performed all over the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, Australia and United States. He first recorded in 1949 with Tex Morton, a New Zealand country singer. Sevesi has won numerous awards including the Queens Service Medal in 1995 for his contribution to music in New Zealand, the Jerry Byrd Lifetime Achievement Award (1998) from the Steel Guitar Players Hall of Fame, Inc in Missouri, the United States and a Lifetime Achievement Award (2006) at the Pacific Music Awards, New Zealand. Sevesi is often credited with the shift in school instrument in New Zealand from the recorder to the ukelele. This album with the Talofa Samoans was recorded in 1969 on the Armar label.