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The Na Hoku Hanohano Award is
the premier award in Hawaiian music, Hawaii's equivalent of the "Grammys."
It is sponsored by the Hawaii Academy
of Recording Arts and broadcast live throughout the State of Hawaii every year.


Na Leo Earns 22 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards to Date...

2006
Contemporary Album of the Year for FEEL THE SPIRIT

2003
Nominated for 5 Hoku awards for "Hawaiian Memories"

May 2002
, "Christmas Gift 2" earns Best Christmas Album
of the Year

May 2001, "Pocketful of Paradise" wins three Hoku awards, includ-
ing Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Engineering

May 2000
, Na Leo walks away with 4 Hokus, including Compilation
album, Na Leo; Island Contemporary Album, "I Miss You My Hawaii", Song of The Year, I Miss You My Hawaii and Group of the Year

May 1999, Na Leo receives Hoku award for their first holiday
album, "A Christmas Gift", the biggest selling Christmas album in
Hawaii's history in both 1998 and 1999

May 1998, "Colours" earns five Hoku awards including group of the
Year, Contemporary Album of the Year, Song of the Year,
Graphics and Engineering

May 1997, "Anthology I" wins Compliation Album of the Year

May 1996, Na Leo wins four awards for "Flying with Angels" -
Album of the Year, Group of the Year, Contemporary Album
of the Year and Song of the Year

May 1995, Friends wins Single of the Year

May 1985, Local Boys earned Single of the Year


"Island Breeze" Is Biggest Selling
Hawaiian Album in the History of
Japan...
Summer
1996 Island Breeze,
SONY Japan's first
release of a Na Leo
album. makes
history by selling the most units of any Hawaiian album ever.


HIt Single charts on
National Radio...
July
1998 "The Rest of Your
Life
" gains national
airplay on more than
100 stations in 41
states, after the same
single tops the charts in Hawaii in 1997. The
single charts at #17 on Gavin, the "Top 30" on RR and earns mention in the Los Angeles Times as "The top female group in Hawaii."


Hit single makes it
to National Radio's
"Top 99" for 1999.

December 1999,
landing at #54 for the
year, and beating the
odds once again for an independent label, Na Leo's "Poetry Man"
tops other national
hits to make Radio
and Records" (RR)
"Top 99" adult con-
temporary (AC) songs
for 1999.


" Retro release, I
Miss You My Hawaii,
is big hit in Hawaii
& Japan!
It makes it
to #1 in Hawaii with
singles "You Don't
Remember
," and origi-
nal compostion by
Lehua Heine (Kalima)
and title track, "I Miss
You My Hawaii,
" big
local favorites, while
"Hawaiian Eyes" soars
to the Top 40 in
Japan!

National Recogni-
tion for Na Leo's
Record Label...
May
2000, NLP records &
Publishing, Inc. is
one of six national
finalists for Radio &
Record's 2000
Industry Achieve-
ment Awards in the
AC Label of the Year (Gold) category.

" The Rest of
Your Life"
earns
the #1 "Phone
Burner" spot on
Muzak - the most- requested song by callers to Muzak for 1999's third quarter.