An award-winning singer/songwriter, with three albums on Columbia and Epic as well as two more independently released albums to her credit, Pamela Polland’s ever increasing list of musical credentials reads like a veritable Who’s Who of artists from all points on the musical compass. Over the course of nearly 50 years in the music business, this seasoned professio ...nal has performed and recorded with such luminaries as Bonnie Raitt, Kenny Loggins, Jackson Browne, Van Morrison, Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal, John Denver, Manhattan Transfer and a host of others. In 1970, Pamela joined the famed Mad Dogs & Englishmen Tour with Joe Cocker and Leon Russell, appearing on the resulting album as well as in the movie. Her songs have been recorded by the likes of Linda Ronstadt, Helen Reddy, The Byrds, Vicki Carr, Nancy Ames, Anita Carter and Bobby Bare. Pamela has also won numerous awards, including two coveted gold records. In the mid-1990’s, by which time she was an established vocal coach and jazz singer, Pamela shifted focus to her life-long love of the Hawaiian culture. Living on Maui, she joined hula hälau Wehiwehi O Leilehua under the direction of Kumu Hula Gordean Lee Bailey, and eventually took up both the ‘ukulele and the study of Hawaiian language. Under the inspired guidance of music legend and Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame inductee Kahauanu Lake, and his protege Walter Kawai‘ae‘a, Pamela gained a broad appreciation and respect for traditional Hawaiian music and eventually became band leader for the four piece Hawaiian group Keaolani.

Pamela’s love of Hawaiian music and language and her rich history in contemporary music inevitably coalesced, inspiring her most recent offering - “Hawaiianized.” Carefully choosing popular material that reflects the spirit of Hawai‘i, Pamela has personalized each song with a Hawaiian flavor - the essence of “aloha”.