This week we have yet another “IZ Sighting” on NBCʻs hit show ‘America’s Got Talent‘. They used “Over the Rainbow” to introduce Alice Tan Ridley, mother of “Precious” actress Gabourey Sidibe. Anybody see this and notice?
NPR had a great story on this great documentary highlighting the growing popularity of the ukulele. It sites IZ as the reason for the latest craze and goes even deeper from there. Take a listen to this interesting piece on…
There are so many versions of video’s from IZ’s songs that have been uploaded to YouTube. To avoid confusion to what is the Official video of his songs, we are continuing to upload these Official Videos to our new YouTube…
In honor of Israelʻs birthday, we have a never before heard outtake from the “Wonderful World overture”. This song starts with an extended version of the instrumental intro from the first track on the album (What a Wonderful World) and…
Last year we had our Official Music Videos for “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and “What a Wonderful World” taken down from our YouTube channel.
This is a video that was created by Israel’s only daughter Wehi Kamakawiwo`ole, for her close friends daughter named Isabella Sepulveda. Isabella is suffering from stage 3 Leukemia and her mother is struggling with the hundreds of thousands of dollars…
We are only a couple months into this site and the best part of the Rainbow Ohana is all of your stories. It seems there are thousands of IZ stories, photos and memories and we want to hear them all….
This commercial might just be our favorite commercial to use “Over the Rainbow” There are so many great ones so its hard to tell, but this definitely stands out!
It’s always amazing to us how far IZ’s reach can go. From Better Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and now Angelina Jolie who used Over the Rainbow in this very touching tribute to her late mother…
Here is a commercial featuring “Over the Rainbow” that was shown in the UK…
Life and Death as IZ see’s it….From IZ himself. I not scard_ plant a tree
Sometimes Israel and I would rehearse in his apartment working with a drum machine and a keyboard that I could pull out chords and sounds from. His daughter and friends would be playing on the other side of the room…
In the next few months I want to share some of the worldwide television commercials in which we have licensed Israel’s music.
In Europe “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” has been a phenomenal success but other songs too……
They have a different way of making television commercials there.
It’s a music producer’s dream, in most of the commercials there was never a voiceover Just the music.
There have been over 80 licenses given worldwide.
Some of the most creative works I’ve ever seen………
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Israel would often play around before a song. Making jokes, comments and chatter rarely counting off in a traditional way …. He’d just start playing. I would normally edit out and start on the down beat of the song. Here’s…
Photo: Mountain Apple Company Studio – Palehua We recorded in two different places. Honolulu and at Palehua which are both in Hawai’i but a bit different. That’s a different story. He had been up at Palehua for some many days…
This is the official video for “Over the Rainbow” it currently has over 9.5 million worldwide views on youtube!
Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo`ole’s video of the worldwide hit “What A Wonderful World” produced by Jon de Mello for The Mountain Apple Company
This was given to us a few years ago, we were blown away. It was created by Chris Innanen of Fluff and Such Puppet Productions in Columbia, MD https://www.fluffandsuch.com
Hear it from IZ himself…
