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>> Amy05: You know I am like the official Lucille Ball of Hawaiian music.
Meaning that my hair is always getting caught on something backstage, my zipper is broken,
my heel falls off, something tragic always going to happen to me.
And I was with Hookena, you folks have had Hookena to this before, right?
They are my very dear brothers and I was on tour with them. We were in front of a house of about 4000 people in Toyko
and I was singing this song, Palehua, it's a very famous song in Japan, so all the halua's love
to dance to it.
Well, before I went on they had this Japanese halau that was on, they had about 300 girls
with 'uli'uli gourds going like this, so that's about 600 'uli'uli gourds, because you have
to times it by 2.
So when I walked out they said Amy-chan, you have to come down in the front because you are the star.
I said no I will just go in the back with the brothers because I am huge on stage.
Japanese women so are beautiful they are so petite that I just look like this amazonian woman next to them.
I said just put me in the back with all the brothers I am all good with that. No No No, you're the star. I'm like oh this is not good.
So I walk out on stage and I see like a trillion tiny little feathers, everywhere
from the 'uli'uli gourds. I think to myself this is so not good.
It was like the scene from the Fifth Element you know when that lady comes out that big Amazonian woman, that's what I felt like.
So I have this fabulous spotlight on me in this flawless purple holoku and I walk out
and I see the feather, just for me, coming closer, coming closer, coming closer, aunties, I sucked that feather in so hard
It lodged between my vocal cords and I have never had no control over my voice. I opened
and I went ahhhhhhhh And all the people, the Japanese girls they are all posed onstage are like...
I was so embarrassed and nobody speaks English or Hawaiian in the audience, they all speak Japanese and nobody
has any idea what is going on stage with me and Hookena is playing louder and louder...
And I am trying to get this wedge of feather out of my throat, gagging on stage
We are featherless here in Kailua Kona. I almost sucked a Christmas ball off at Windward Mall.
If anyone wants to dance this hula please feel free.