In 1993 Taiwanese singer Emily Chu turned Hana into a hit in Taiwan and Hong Kong under the title Hua-shin. In fact, Kina's music also evokes folk traditions from every Asian culture, as befits this southern island chain first settled by immigrants from Taiwan, China, southeast Asia and the South Pacific. Originally known as the Ryukyu Kingdom, the islands were renamed Okinawa by the Japanese who took them over in 1879. Kina has no intention of squabbling over royalty rights. Let my music bloom freely in Asia.
Copyrights are a Western creation, unnatural to Asian cultures.
Now 75 percent of the island land is given over to U.S. military bases. Two years later he returned to become a popular folk singer who raised his offspring to become musicians. In his teens Kina went to Tokyo where he became caught up in the Beatles boom of the big city. He came home banging Western-style rock but no one listened. Dejected by the lack of acceptance, Kina turned to drugs.