VanderWaal has received 2 Radio Disney Music Awards (including a Best New Artist award), a Teen Choice Award, the 2017 Billboard Women in Music Rising Star Award, and the 2018 MTV Europe Music Award for Best Push Act. She made her acting debut in 2020, starring as Susan "Stargirl" Caraway in the Disney+ musical drama film Stargirl, followed by its 2022 sequel Hollywood Stargirl. She next toured in mid-2018 with Imagine Dragons in their Evolve World Tour, and in 2019, after opening in a tour for Florence and the Machine, she headlined her own Ur So Beautiful tour. VanderWaal conducted her first concert tour in 2017 in support of Just the Beginning. She has performed at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Madison Square Garden, the opening and closing of the 2017 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Austria, various benefit concerts, the Austin City Limits Music Festival and on various television talk shows. Her first full-length studio album, Just the Beginning (2017), debuted at number 22 on the U.S Billboard 200. In December 2016, with Columbia Records and Syco Music, she released her debut EP Perfectly Imperfect, which became the best selling EP that year. In September 2016, at age 12, she won the eleventh season of the NBC competition show America's Got Talent ( AGT), performing her original songs. VanderWaal began her musical career by posting videos of her original songs and covers on YouTube and performing at open mic nights near her home in Suffern, New York. She is known for her distinctive vocals and has often accompanied herself on the ukulele. to sons "If you make instruments and use the family name, don't make junk," he said.Grace Avery VanderWaal (born January 15, 2004) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. The guiding philosophy at Kamaka Hawaii has always been the candid, but sensible advice handed down from Sam Sr. Other young family members are also helping with the business, carrying the Kamaka tradition into the fourth generation.Īs the Kamaka legacy moves forward, it is important to reflect on what has made the company endure. Together the sons now play major roles at Kamaka Hawaii, Inc.: Chris is the production manager, Casey crafts the custom orders, and Fred Jr. Along the way, Sam Jr.'s sons, Chris and Casey, also got involved with the company as did Fred Sr.'s son, Fred Jr. joined the business as its general manager.
In 1968 Kamaka and Sons incorporated and then became "Kamaka Hawaii, Inc." After retiring from the Army in 1972, Fred Sr. The ukulele has long been a part of Hawaii history and also a legacy for our family. In 1959, the company expanded to its current location at 550 South Street. restored the factory at the previous 1814 S. Building on the knowledge he had picked up from his father, Sam Jr.
put aside his personal career aspirations to continue the family business. Immediately following Sam Sr.'s death, Sam Jr. died in December 1953, after hand-crafting koa ukuleles for over 40 years. moved back to Hawaii to care for his father. When he became seriously ill the following year, Sam Jr. went into semi-retirement and hauled his equipment to his Lualualei Homestead farm in Waianae. earned a masters degree and went on to pursue a doctorate in entomology at Oregon State University. began a career in the Army, while Sam Jr.
After graduating from Washington State University, Fred Sr. were then drafted into the Army, and after serving in WWII, both brothers attended college on the GI bill. In 1945, the business was reorganized as "Kamaka and Sons Enterprises." Sam Jr. and Frederick, to the craft of ukulele-making, even though the boys were only in elementary school.
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