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Louis Keouli Thompson (April 22, 1882 – July 15, 1937) better known by his stage name Segis Luvaun, was a Hawaiian singer and musician and the reported ''King of Ukulele Players''.〔Luvaun (1926), p. 2.〕 Thompson, native to Hawai'i, claimed United States citizenship when Hawaii was annexed by the United States as a territory in 1898. He performed much of his life, first touring the United States and later throughout Scandinavia and Europe, many times for Royalty.〔 ==Personal life== Louis Thompson was born in Honolulu in the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1882. The earliest known record of him is the 1900 census〔Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii Territory; Roll: T623_1837; Page: 26B; Enumeration District: 24.〕 showing him as a 17-year-old student at the Kamehameha School, then known as the Kamehameha School for Boys. Indeed, Thompson is shown in the schools Class of 1900 class photo.〔(KS Archives – Kamehameha School for Boys, Class of 1900 ) Retrieved on 2012-06-02.〕 The 1900 census shows both his parents being from the Hawaiian Islands. A 1919 Visa application, filled out by Thompson, records his father's name as ''Keouli Tawmsen''〔Source Citation: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington D.C.; Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 – March 31, 1925; ARC Identifier 583830 / MLR Number A1 534; NARA Series: M1490; Roll #807.〕 and a 1916 Visa application indicated that his father was deceased at that time.〔Source Citation: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington D.C.; Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 – March 31, 1925; ARC Identifier 583830 / MLR Number A1 534; NARA Series: M1490; Roll #315.〕 However, on the marriage license to Eveline Walters (shown below), indicates his father's name is 'Carlo Luvaun'.〔 No other information is known of his family. Thompson married ''Mildred Elnora Rupp'' on July 26, 1910 in Chicago, Illinois.〔Source: Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index, 1871–1920 (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.〕 At the time, Thompson went by ''Lu'', with his full name on the marriage license recorded as ''Lu Kaoly Thompson''. Rupp was born on October 26, 1893 in Winfield, Kansas.〔Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection – Births (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.〕 Although Thompson was actually 28 and Rupp was 17 at the time, the marriage license shows them as 26 and 21, respectively. He and Rupp had one child, Billven Keouli Thompson, born December 16, 1911 in Topeka, Kansas. Billven is Thompson's only known child. Sometime after marrying Rupp in 1910 and before leaving for Europe in 1914, Thompson married ''Moana''.〔 Although little is known about Moana, including her maidian name, one might speculate that she was the inspiration behind Thompson's chart 'Moana Waltz'. Thompson married ''Eveline Walters'' on April 7, 1917 in St. Giles, London, England. At this time, Thompson was 35 and Walters was 21.〔Certified Copy of an entry of marriage for Segis Luvaun and Eveline Walters, Registration District of St. Giles, entry Number 169.〕 She was born on September 11, 1896 in Somersetshire, England.〔Source Citation: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington D.C.; Emergency Passport Applications, Argentina thru Venezuela, 1906–1925; Collection Number: ARC Identifier 1244183 / MLR Number A1 544; ; ; Box #: 4715; Volume #: 3.〕 and her father's name was Gaius Walters〔 Within three years (1903) of graduating from Kamehameha School for Boys, Thompson had already left his home land of Hawai'i for the main land of the United States.〔 He toured there for ten years before moving to London in 1914. In 1919, he moved to Copenhagen, Denmark. By 1922, he once again moved, this time to Prague, Czechoslovakia. His last known residence in Europe, per Visa applications, was Riga, Latvia. He remained in Europe until September 1936 when he returned to the United States sailing from Marseille to Boston. He died of heart failure in a Pennsylvania hospital, on July 15, 1937. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louis Keouli Thompson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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