Cyril Pahinui Cyril’s second album went in a different direction and with his wife Charmagne on lyrics features several original compositions including the hit single, Alaska Rose. The album received the Hawai‘i music industry’s highest honors, Contemporary Hawaiian Album of the Year and Cyril one for Male Vocalist of the Year. The Album was a commercial success and sold all 1,000 copies printed in the first two months. It was immediately reprinted again selling all 2,000 copies printed within the year. The album was re mastered and rereleased in 2008 and again in 2014. Released 1988 Pahinui Enterprises CD 2008 Pahinui Productions CD 2014 Pahinui Productions CD Tracks 1. Sun Down 3:30 2. Po Mahina 4:36 3. Tropical Night 3:50 4. Wai O Ke Aniani 3:08 5. Makuakane (Song for Pops) 3:30 6. Alaska Rose 4:08 7. Nani Ka‘ala 3:12 8. Eyes of Love 3:29 9. I Ka Po Me Ke Ao 2:40 10. Maile Lau Li‘ili‘i 2:32 Liner Notes Produced by CYRIL PAHINUI Co-Produced by JIM LINKNER Executive Producers KIMO & CHERIE MONCRIEF Engineered by JIM LINKNER Recorded at Blue Dolphin Studios, Honolulu Cyril Pahinui Straight From the Heart Cyril Pahinui is not only the son of one of Hawai‘i’s greatest musical legends, Gabby Pahinui he is also one of Hawai‘i’s our most gifted guitarists. Cyril, who has played at Carnegie Hall twice, contributed to three Grammy Award winning albums, received several Hoku Hanohano Awards and recorded on more than 25 Hawaiian musical releases is known for his delicate melodies, creative improvisation and striking percussive sound. Blessed with a beautiful, emotive and well-recognized voice, he’s also one of Hawai‘i’s leading singers. Cyril Pahinui was born April 21, 1950 and grew up in Waimanalo at the foot of the Ko‘olau mountains on the windward side of Oahu where he started playing music from the time he could hold an ukulele, learning ki ho\'alu, slack key, at the age of seven. Cyril learned music in the traditional way by listening and watching his dad and many of Hawai‘i’s foremost traditional musicians, including slack key masters Leland “Atta” Isaacs and Sonny Chillingworth and ukulele virtuoso Eddie Kamae. The Pahinui’s Waimanalo home become a popular second home to many noted musicians. Weekends at the Pahinui home were a continuous jam session as the Pahinui\'s hosted dozens of musicians who would come by to jam with \"the Master.\" A pot of beef stew and rice was always on the stove for guests who came by to play music. The jam sessions would begin early on Friday mornings and continue straight through to Monday mornings. Cyril played his first concert performances at the age of twelve and by fifteen he joined his father’s group, the “Gabby Band”. Cyril and his older brother Bla started a rock band, dubbed the “Characters” after which, Cyril joined ‘Sam and the Samlins’, and continued to sit in with his father at shows. He made his first album in 1968 with “The Sunday Manoa” and after returning from two year’s of service in Vietnam, he arranged songs for and played a variety of instruments on all five of Gabby’s groundbreaking albums recorded on “Panini Records” and worked with Palani Vaughan, on his Ia‘oe E Ka La albums chronicling King David Kalakaua’s music and times. In 1975, Cyril formed “The Sandwich Isle Band” and joined “The Peter Moon Band”. In 1988 he recorded an album of traditional and contemporary songs that won the “Na Hoku Hanohano Award” for best Contemporary Hawaiian Album and Best male Vocalist from the Hawai‘i Academy of Recording Arts”. At the urging of their mother, in 1992, he joined his brothers Martin and Bla to produce the “Pahanui Brothers” album. Cyril began recording on Dancing Cat as a solo performer, and won the 1994 “Na Hoku Hanohano Award” for “Instrumental Album of the Year” with “6 & 12 String Slack Key”. In 1999, Dancing Cat released his duet album with Bob Brozman, “Four Hands Sweet & Hot”, winning the “Na Hoku Hanohano Award” for “Instrumental Album of the Year” in 2000. Cyril has performed on three compilation albums “Masters of Slack Key, Volume 1” and “Legends of Hawaiian slack Key Guitar-Live from Maui”, both winning “Grammy Awards” for “Best Hawaiian Music Album” and “Treasures of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar”. In July of 2007 Dancing Cat released another solo album entitled “He‘eia”, nominated for a Grammy and winning the “Na Hoku Hanohano Award” for Island Album of the Year. Cyril is also working with a new band, touring, performing in Hawai‘i and worldwide and is teaching a succession of workshops including “He Huaka‘i e pana a i ke ea”, -a journey to bring pulse to the living and other workshops including at the Bishop Museum and the Pahinui Waimanalo Kanikapila workshop series at his family home in Waimanalo Homestead.