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We want you tell us your Facing Future/Israel Kamakawiwo’ole story with a video or a picture!

• Submit a video telling us how his music/the album changed your life by uploading your video and sending us a link via commenting on this post, or email: https://izhawaii.com/Contact/
OR
• Submit a picture and a story that demonstrates how important that music and IZ have become in your personal life. Send via private message or email: https://izhawaii.com/Contact/
• Did you know IZ or get to meet him? Describe how, where and what happened.
• Do you have an autographed copy of this CD or any poster, hat, Tshirt? Take a picture and share it with IZ fans everywhere.
• Submissions can be anonymous, but feel free to include your name and location!

IZ’s music has touched people around the world and the emotional response of the listener is exactly what music should do!

As an added bonus, we will pick ONE submission to win an IZ prizepack! A T-shirt, the entire IZ CD collection (Facing Future, Alone in IZ World, IZ in Concert, E Ala E, N Dis Life, Wonderful World) IZ, The Voice of the People book, and a hook necklace!

Submissions will be accepted til December 31st, 2013!

Submission Agreement: By submitting your materials for inclusion in the 20th Anniversary Facing Future promotion, you are granting permission to Mountain Apple Company/Big Boy Records to use those materials for promotional purposes and are warranting that you have the right to grant this permission.

A clip from the Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole DVD, “IZ: The Man and His Music – Island Music Island Hearts.” Features interviews, live performances, and a simple glimpse into one of Hawaii’s most treasured musicians.
Experience the bigger than life personality of IZ and learn about the man behind the music.

Purchase your copy of Island Music Island Hearts today.
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A clip from the IZ DVD, Hot Hawaiian Nights. IZ plays with fellow musicians Roland Cazimero and Mel Amina.

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A clip from the Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole DVD, “IZ: The Man Behind The Music.” This DVD explores that man, through never-before seen interviews and stories with the help of friends and family who knew him best.
Experience the bigger than life personality of IZ and learn about the man behind the music.

Purchase your copy of IZ: The Man Behind the Music today!

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Official Website: https://izhawaii.com
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The Limited Edition IZ IT Tenor Ukulele is now available at Martin Guitar retailers nationwide! Just like the Ukulele that IZ loved!

Check out this video from the NAMM Convention talking about this Ukulele!
Some fans have trouble pronouncing IZ’s last name–do you? How do you pronounce it?

A clip from the Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole DVD, “IZ: The Man and His Music – Island Music Island Hearts.” Features interviews, live performances, and a simple glimpse into one of Hawaii’s most treasured musicians.

Experience the bigger than life personality of IZ and learn about the man behind the music.

Purchase your copy of Island Music Island Hearts today.
https://izhawaii.com/store
http://www.mountainapplecompany.com/i…

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/israelkamakaw…
Twitter: http://twitter.com/izhawaii

Israel Kamakawiwo ‘Oles Ukelele Version of “Over the Rainbow” was featured at #3 in Terrific Top 10’s list of cover songs, better than the original. “Over the Rainbow” was written by E.Y Harburg for the 1939 movie “The Wizard of OZ”, and was originally sung by Judy Garland.

Today we are remembering the great Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo‘ole and how lucky we are to have had the opportunity to work with him and know him N Dis Life! IZ, you live in our hearts and minds every day! You are missed by millions around the world.

Share how much IZ has meant to you at our Fan Map. https://izhawaii.com/fans

Here’s a trip down memory lane, a rare video of IZ performing almost 20 years ago, with other Hawaiian music greats, Roland Cazimero, Henry Kapono, and Cyril Pahinui!

Aloha IZ fans! We’ve finished gathering all the wonderful stories, photos, and videos you’ve shared with us, and put them together on a giant map for all to read and enjoy!

And since we had such a great response, we will be continuing to accept more fan submissions! Feel free to fill out the form at the site! https://izhawaii.com/fans/

Or if you don’t have a story or picture to share and you just want to be listed on the map, you can just put your name and/or location and we’ll add you to the map!

Note: Submissions are not automatically added; please give us a few days to add it. Mahalo for your patience.

Aloha!

IZ’s birthday is coming up on May 20th. If someone else you know also has a birthday coming up, check out your local Hallmark store for the perfect gift! They’ve got a wonderful music box that plays IZ’s “Over the Rainbow” AND you can record your own personal greeting! When someone opens the box, it will alternate between your greeting, and the song. It’s also a memory box, and you can add your own photo and other keepsakes.

Here’s a demo of the music box in action!

Call your local Hallmark store for availability. http://stores.hallmark.com/ Retail price, $19.99.

Aloha IZ fans! We’ve JUST released a new IZ compilation, exclusively for download at izhawaii.com! It contains 10 fan favorite songs as well as a BONUS never before released track of Hawaiian Sup’pman, available ONLY through this special album download. Just click the link!

For those looking to share IZ with their family and friends, this album is a perfect selection of songs to introduce IZ into their world. Aloha!

IZ’s Facebook just surpassed 50,000 fans/likes over the weekend!! 🙂 A HUGE mahalo to all the fans, new and old, from Hawaii and around the world, for all your support! IZ would be so proud. And keep IZ’s spirit going and continue to share his music! We’ll be at 100,000 fans in no time!

Have you ever wanted to play some of IZ’s songs? Maybe your New Year’s resolution was to learn to play music?

As part of our New Year’s sales we have IZ’s Wonderful World Songbook – Easy Piano on sale for $9.98! (was $19.98) Check it out!

“Over the Rainbow” was played in New York Times Square on New Years! Check it out on this brief clip..

This Rice Krispies commercial with IZ’s “Over the Rainbow” reminds us of the simple joy of spending time with your loved ones.

We hope you’re spending the holidays with the ones you love! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

This week’s IZ clip comes from a Dutch insurance company. This commercial shows the full spectrum of the human experience, the ups and downs and everything in between. “Over the Rainbow” is definitely in the soundtrack to life for many of us!

For more on IZ, check out: www.facebook.com/israelkamakawiwoole

Happy Thanksgiving to all of IZ’s fans!! 🙂

IZ’s “Over the Rainbow” is a song that really makes you stop and smell the roses in life. This Italian car commercial emphasizes enjoying the sights, sounds, and feelings that surround you while driving.

Where’s your favorite place to relax and listen to music? Driving in the car? Relaxing on the beach?

NHK’s Amazing Voice will be doing an episode featuring The Brothers Cazimero and IZ! They were at our office today filming! The episode will air in Japan some time in early 2012.

This Austrian sugar commercial shows how a childhood dream can be reached, “Over the Rainbow”!

What’s your favorite sweet that takes you, “Over the Rainbow”?

IZ’s “Over the Rainbow” in a very cute European car commercial showing the bond between a man and his car.

Songs always remind us of special people (or things/events/times) in our lives. What does “Over the Rainbow” or any of IZ’s songs remind you of?

Here’s a clip from the Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore movie 50 First Dates (which takes place and was filmed in Hawaii!) featuring “Over the Rainbow” in a sweet, romantic tone.

Do you know someone who played IZ at their wedding?

This week’s IZ clip is from the TV show, Aerial America, which explores the United States from a bird’s eye view. Get a glimpse of Hawaii’s scenic beauty that inspired IZ’s music!

For fans who don’t live in Hawaii, have you ever visited the islands? If so, what’s your favorite scenic lookout here?

IZ continues his sweep across Europe! “Over the Rainbow” is quickly climbing the charts in Spain and is the #2 most downloaded single on iTunes there!!

Here’s a clip from Spain’s TELE 5, featuring “Over the Rainbow”!

This clip features one of our favorite cereals, Rice Krispies! “Over the Rainbow” has been used in so many commercials that are aimed at children and young parents because of the gentleness and innocence of IZ’s voice. Do you listen to IZ with your kids? (He’s sure to calm them down!) Take a look at what Kelloggs did with this Rice Krispies commercial! What’s YOUR favorite cereal?

IZ’s music has been heard in movies, too! “Hawai’i 78” was featured in the 1996 film Race the Sun. It was based on the 1990 solar race car team from Konawaena High School that went to the World Championship that year. IZ loved having his song in this movie as it was about kids from Hawai’i, and he loved kids.

And if you like the song, we’re offering it as a free download! Just click the button below!

Here’s this week’s IZ commercial clip! This Korean cosmetics/health food company used “Over the Rainbow” to showcase the essence of nature in their products. It only makes sense to use a beautiful song to promote beauty products!

Aloha everyone! We’ve broken the 40,000 mark in Facebook fans!! A HUGE mahalo to all of IZ’s fans throughout the world for your continued support and love of IZ and his music. With your help, we’ll get to 100,000!

IZ’s voice complements a range of themes and emotions. Last week we brought you a cute and very clever little old lady, this week, we’ve got a whimsical bank ad from Hungary, it definitely lives up to the “rainbow” in Over the Rainbow!

IZ’s rendition of Over The Rainbow has inspired so many producers to cleverly use the song….check out what the Lotto in Norway did! Let us know what you think!

IZ’s fans span the world, and many may be unfamiliar with some of the Hawaiian words used in some of his songs.  We wanted to share this email from a fan, asking about a particular lyric in the song “What…

Aloha IZ fans! Sorry for the lack of posting recently, we’ve been very busy with new releases from other amazing Hawaiian music artists! But we wanted to let you know about the worldwide success of IZ’s music! Alone in IZ…

We are excited to announce that IZ has officially hit the mobile web with his new App! It is available on iTunes, Android Marketplace and the Blackberry App World. Best part is, it’s FREE. Get it here!

Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole breaks yet another record in Europe by beating our artist’s like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Shakira in Germany’s All Time Download Single Charts with 512,688 downloads!

This afternoon we had a visit from Israel’s wife Marlene and in her hand was a small ʻukulele case with scribbles and stickers all over it. No it wasn’t THE ‘ukulele from IZ’s performances.

This is the funniest clip we have seen in a long time. We found this video in our YouTube, we love it! I think someone said “Israel Guacamole”!

You may have noticed we have been documenting Israel’s success in Germany and we may have mentioned to stay tuned for more updates on Israel in Europe. Well, the week of December 20th, IZ’ single “Over the Rainbow” was released…

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In 8 Short Weeks IZ has gone Platinum which is selling 300,000 copies of the single. Thats so incredible! There is so much good news coming from Europe thats it’s hard not to talk about it all day long! Mahalo…