  {"id":224763,"date":"2025-10-31T14:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=224763"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:38:06","slug":"maui-college-student-wins-falsetto-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/10\/31\/maui-college-student-wins-falsetto-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College student&#8217;s voice rings true, wins falsetto contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_224761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224761\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/maui-falsetto-song-contest-pauole.jpg\" alt=\"Pau&#699;ole on stage\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-224761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/maui-falsetto-song-contest-pauole.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/maui-falsetto-song-contest-pauole-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/maui-falsetto-song-contest-pauole-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方 <\/abbr> Maui College music student Kellysa-Michiko N\u0101makaokalani <span lang=\"haw\">Pau&#699;ole<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_224760\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224760\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/maui-falsetto-song-contest-pauole-2-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Group photo\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-224760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/maui-falsetto-song-contest-pauole-2-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/maui-falsetto-song-contest-pauole-2-93x130.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/maui-falsetto-song-contest-pauole-2.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pau\u2018ole and Carmen &#8220;Hulu&#8221; Lindsey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Maui College music student Kellysa-Michiko N\u0101makaokalani <span lang=\"haw\">Pau&#699;ole<\/span> recently won the 4th Annual Carmen &ldquo;Hulu&rdquo; Lindsey Leo <span lang=\"haw\">Ha&#699;iha&#699;i<\/span> (Falsetto) Song Contest, held at the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea on October 24.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are so proud of N\u0101maka. Her success at the song contest is a testament to both her talent and hard work,&rdquo; said Keola Donaghy, <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College faculty coordinator for music studies and the Institute of Hawaiian Music. &ldquo;She has found a wonderful balance between her formal studies and developing her career as a professional musician. She&#8217;s truly an inspiration and a model for her peers to follow.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College recently awarded the Emma Veary Scholarship to <span lang=\"haw\">Pau&#699;ole<\/span>. Established nearly 10 years ago, the scholarship is given annually to a <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College student who demonstrates a strong interest in Hawaiian music.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Emma Veary Scholarship or music studies at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College, contact Donaghy at (808) 769-8133 or email <a href=\"mailto:donaghy@hawaii.edu\">donaghy@hawaii.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rising star at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College hits the high notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":224761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[231,133,572,660,71,60],"class_list":["post-224763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-institute-of-hawaiian-music","tag-music","tag-scholarship","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-maui-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/maui-falsetto-song-contest-pauole.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224765,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224763\/revisions\/224765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}