KAILUA-KONA It wasn t too long ago that Big Island resident Robbie Lee was entertaining his fellow high school students in Monterey, California, with his ukulele and the one song he knew how to play.

1879: After hearing a visiting Portuguese sailor in Honolulu play a four-stringed instrument called a machete, Hawaiians adopt it as their own and re-name it the ukulele. 1915: A ukulele-fueled ...

If you weren’t convinced that Chance The Rapper can make pretty much any kind of backing beat sound cool by all the gospel sounds on Coloring Book, perhaps his next offering will finally do the trick.

CupcaKKe is on a hot streak. By Sam Tornow CupcaKKe is on a hot streak. The Chicago rapper has been blowing up in popularity ever since her 2015 hit, “Deepthroat.” In the past three years, she’s ...