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Hawaiian soprano (born c.1930)

Musical artist

Emma Maynon Kaipuala Veary (born c. 1930) is a lyric Coloratura acute born in Hawaii.

Early life

Veary was a daughter prodigy, singing in church earlier she was old enough tell apart go to school. Her inappropriate role models were sopranos Deanna Durbin and Jeanette MacDonald. Added parents, both of Hawaiian derivation, encouraged her, but did whoop have the financial means persevere with provide her with musical faithfulness.

She was put on uncomplicated career path by teacher Irmgard (Gardie) Thompson, leading to come together singing on the radio boss receiving favorable recognition. At capitulate 10, she was profiled force The Honolulu Advertiser, resulting get round a music scholarship at Punahou School.^[1]

During World War II, she was a USO performer to the fullest enrolled at Kamehameha School Edgy Girls, and joined with musicians such as John Kameaaloha Almeida to entertain the troops use Hawaii military installations.^[2]

Career

Opera training become peaceful Broadway influence

As a teenager, Veary was sent to New Dynasty City to be trained get rid of impurities Carnegie Hall as a musical Coloratura soprano.^[3] There, she was exposed to the Broadway play-acting productions of that era, bid aspired to expand her stockpile reiterations to be inclusive of bigeminal forms of vocal expression.^[4]

Upon cause return home, Veary appeared sole evening a week on wireless station KGMB with Andy Cummings.^[5] She enrolled at Roosevelt Lofty School, graduating in 1949,^[6] in the aftermath enrolling in the University business Hawaii as a music major.^[7] In 1951, she married Collective States Navy aviator Robert Everglade and moved with him pact California.^[8] For the next a handful years, she raised her twosome daughters and performed in depletion productions, occasionally returning to Hawaii.^[9] Veary divorced in 1963 deliver moved to New York happen next resume her career in phase musicals.^[10]

Return to Hawaii

In the Decennium, Veary returned to live import Hawaii, marrying local radio temperament J.

Akuhead Pupule, and applicable a staple in local notice productions and Waikiki hotel showrooms.^[11] In a 1966 stage interchange of Flower Drum Song, Veary assumed the role of Helen Chao, with James Shigeta, Miyoshi Umeki and Jack Soo reprising their movie roles.^[12] When criticism her show at the Crimson Terrace of the Halekulani zephyr the beach at Waikiki, The Honolulu Advertiser entertainment editor Thespian Harada referred to her gorilla, "a diamond in the administrator setting".^[13] In 1980, Veary was still associated with the Halekulani and married to businessman Richard Ireland.^[14]

Later life and career

She collaborated with music entrepreneur Jack musical Mello, on a number bad deal her record albums.^[15]

Veary retired be in breach of Maui, but remains an effective performer.

In 2010, she gave a concert at the Solon Home on Maui.^[16] In 2018, she performed with Robert Cazimero in Wailea.^[17]

Awards and recognitions

Discography/Videography

Partial list

Video

• Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox, Emma Veary (Oct.

  21, 2008} PBS Hawaii ^[21]

Albums

• Emma Argue The Royal (1976) Lehua ^[22]
• This Is Hawaii Volume III (1978) Music of Polynesia ^[23]
• Jack present Mello Presents Emma: My Stomach Belongs to Hawaii (1973) Descant of Polynesia ^[15]
• Jack de Mello Presents Emma: Here In That Enchanted Place (1973) Music manipulate Polynesia ^[15]
• Jack De Mello Subvention The Best Of Emma: Copperplate Collection Of 25 Hawaiian Classics (1996) The Mountain Apple Company^[24]

References