page_title: Kalani Peʻa
section_title: Music career
hierarchical_section_title: Kalani Peʻa / Music career
caption_attribution_description: English: Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim and Kalani Pe'a 2017
context_page_description: Kalani Peʻa is a two-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter of Hawaiian music. He released his first album, E Walea, in 2016, which won the 2017 Grammy award for "Best Regional Roots Music Album". Peʻa released his second album, No 'Ane'i, in 2018, which won the Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.
  Peʻa is also an educator, a kanaka, and promotes Hawaiian language and culture. He is a supporter of Hawaiian-language immersion schools.
context_section_description: In 2017, his debut album, E Walea, won a Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award for Contemporary Album of the Year. In 2017 Peʻa made history by becoming the first artist ever to win both a Grammy Award and a Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award for the same album.
  The Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album began in 2012. Since the category began it has had all Louisiana winners until 2016 when Kalani Peʻa won and ended the Louisiana winning streak.
  In 2017, he performed at the Grammy Museum at L.A. Live alongside Henry Kapono, Kalapana and more. The shows theme was ‘We Are Friends: A Lifetime Party Of ‘70s Music’.
  When Peʻa won his Grammy Award in 2017 for Best Regional Roots Music Album his Producer Dave Tucciarone said "I don't think there could have been a better ambassador of aloha," , "He is Hawaiian, he speaks fluent Hawaiian, he teaches Hawaiian and he's immersed in the culture. His first love may be soul and R&B, but he is a Hawaiian music artist … and the people on the Mainland saw his spirit shining through."
  Both of Peʻa's albums "E Walea" and "No 'Ane'i" hit number 11 on the billboard charts.
  On December 22, 2018, Peʻa performed at the Hawaii Bowl Halftime Show at the Aloha Stadium. The attendance count was 30,911. The Hawaiʻi Bowl (currently known as the SoFi Hawaiʻi Bowl for sponsorship reasons) is a college football bowl game that has been played annually at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, since 2002. The bowl is one of eleven post-season contests run by ESPN Events.
  Peʻa made his debut headline performance at the historic Hawaii Theatre in 2019.
  In 2019, Peʻa was invited by The Recording Academy to present at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony along with Lzzy Hale, Questlove, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Tokimonsta and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Shaggy (musician) was the official host for the official ceremony and Peʻa presented awards in ten categories.
  
  Peʻa showed up on the red carpet at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in a purple sequin blazer that caught attention from the press. His look was then featured and installed into the Grammy Museum at L.A. Live in March 2019. He paired his look with fresh lei from Hawaiʻi which was then recreated for the Grammy Museum at L.A. Live. His purple crown flower lei he wore was a gift from Hawaiian Music group Ho'okena. Peʻa's partner and manager Allan B. Cool wore a feather cape, or ʻahu‘ula, created by master feather-worker and cultural practitioner Kawika Lum-Nelmida.
  Peʻa made his debut at the Merrie Monarch Festival in 2019. He performed for Hula Hālau O Kamuela under the direction of Kumu Hula Kunewa Mook and Kauʻi Kamanaʻo. The hālau entered two of Peʻa's original compositions he wrote or co-wrote. In the Miss Aloha Hula Competition the mele or song entered was titled "Kuʻu Poliʻahu" and for the ʻauana or modern hula competition segment the mele or song entered was titled "He Lei Aloha (No Hilo)". The hālau took top overall honors including the Lōkālia Montgomery Perpetual Trophy.
  In October 2019, Lincoln Center announced their American Songbook season line up for 2020. Pe'a was named to perform apart of the music series which also included Ali Stroker and Tony Award winner André De Shields.  This marked Pe'a's debut performance in New York City and making it a first ever for Hawaiian music to be a part of the series.
  In November 2019 a compilation album titled "Hawaiian Lullaby" by Haku Collective, a production agency based in Honolulu was nominated in the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards under the Best Regional Roots Music Album category. He contributed a song, titled “Ōpae Ē” which is a well known traditional Hawaiian song also covered by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole. The producers on album were Kimie Miner and Imua Garza.
caption: Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim and Kalani Peʻa 2017
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