Mark Yamanaka - Manu ʻOʻo (HiSessions.com Acoustic Live!)

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Mark Yamanaka along with Sean Naleimaile (on background vocals and bass) perform the traditional Hawaiian song “Manu ʻOʻo.” A song that uses metaphors of the Manu ʻOʻo bird, it’s feathers, the lehua blossom and the rain to talk about love.
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Recorded with the QSC TouchMix digital mixer

[@judyjanssen1256]

Wow Mark, you're really are the Greatest!

[@marceloassisdepaula8982]

Mark Yamanaka is the best singer of Hawaii to me! Makes me fell good. But the others are very good too!

[@makuasouza-deblake6091]

SO GOOD!!!

[@rosemarymanibusan3342]

Your an angel.Kinisou chapur from micronesians Islands...

[@bassplayer60]

Very nice Mark!

[@DavesDumbSongs]

Enjoying this from “frozen” Ohio. Very nice.

[@MangoDaVille]

Cooli0! Johnny Pal

[@patriciayomes8800]

Guys put a little zip in music Hilo Palace!👍🏼

[@Fruitful06]

So beautiful. What might be the expression or translation be into English? mahalo.

[@Kehau5050]

Fruitful06 Manu ʻŌʻō (Black Honey-eater) - Traditional ʻO ka manu ʻōʻō i Mālama A he nani kou hulu ke lei ʻia Mūkīkī ana ʻoe i ka pua lehua Kāhea ana ʻoe i ka nui manu Hui: Hō mai ʻoni mai Ko aloha ma nēia kīhene lehua No Hilo ē ka ua Kanilehua Popohe lehua a i Hanakahi Hoʻokahi aʻu mea nui aia ʻoe ʻO kou aloha ka i hiki mai The black honey-eater is at Mālama Your beautiful and soft feathers are worn as a lei You sip the nectar of lehua blossoms And beckon to the flocks of birds Chorus: Share with me, come to me Pour your love on the lehua cluster The Kanilehua rain of Hilo Decorative lehua of Hanakahi One greatest thing I love is you For you love has come here to me Source: Lyrics from He Mele Aloha - The bird that sips lehua honey and the rain that pelts the lehua leaves are linked romantically. The girl is the Manu ʻōʻō, the nearly extinct black honey-eater whose yellow feathers were used for featherwork. The lover likens himself to the lehua blossoms. In the last stanza, the girl is likened to the lehua-sounding rain of Hilo, a symbol of chatter and gossip. The man still loves her no matter what people say and is the lehua of Hanakahi, a place on the Hamakua side of Hilo noted for profound peace.

[@tnrc75]

@@Kehau5050 Wow, thanks so much!