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Albert "Sonny" Cunha (1879 - 1933) was a Hawaiian composer, bandleader, pianist, singer, politician and entrepreneur. He was the first to popularize ''hapa haole'' music, a type of Hawaiian music with influences from popular music and with lyrics that are a combination of English and Hawaiian (or wholly English). ==Early years== Albert Cunha was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Angela Gilliland and Emmanuel Cunha, and later attended Yale Law School in 1898, where he was a star baseball and football star, although he did not graduate. In 1903 he composed ''My Waikiki Mermaid'', the earliest known hapa haole song. This was followed in 1905 by his first big hit, ''My Honolulu Tomboy''. Other notable songs followed, ''My Hawaiian Maid'', ''Honolulu Hula-hula Heigh!'', ''My Tropical Hula Girl'' and ''Honolulu Hula Girl''. In 1905 sextette led by Cunha played the entire summer season at a California beach resort in Santa Cruz. In 1906 he directed the Royal Hawaiian Glee Club on their tour of the West Coast of the US with the Royal Hawaiian Band.〔 In 1914 he published the first hapa haole songbook, ''Famous Hawaiian Songs''. He played piano, sang and led a dance orchestra in Honolulu for many years, toured the mainland, founded the Cunha Music Company (which sold instruments and presumably sheet music), and served as a Congressman from 1923 to 1924. His son was B movie director Richard E. Cunha. 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「Albert "Sonny" Cunha」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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