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Name
  
Ed Kenney

Ex-spouse
  
Beverly Noa

Children
  
Edward Kenney III

Movies
  
The Butcher's Wife

Role
  
Singer


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Albums
  
The Best of Marlene Sai, The Exotic Sounds Of The Spice Islands, An Island

Similar People
  
Pat Suzuki, Melveen Leed, Juanita Hall, Alfred Apaka, Miyoshi Umeki

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Edward Kamanaloha Kenney, Jr. (born August 8, 1933) is a Hawai‘i-born American singer/actor best known for the role of "Wang Ta" in the original Broadway production of Flower Drum Song. Now retired, he lives on the island of Kaua‘i and occasionally makes public appearances.

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Family

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Born in Honolulu on Oahu to a Hawaiian-Chinese mother and a Swedish-Irish father. He is currently married to Judy Bailey and lives on Kauai.

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Kenney was married to hula dancer Beverly Noa and is the father of Honolulu restaurateur, Edward Kenney, III [1], [2].

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Kenney and Noa headlined shows at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel and the Halekulani Hotel for years. They reunited for a Honolulu television show on KGMB-TV in the 1980s.

Broadway

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  • 13 Daughters as Mana, Prince of Hawai‘i (1961)
  • Flower Drum Song as Wan Ta (1958–1960)
  • Shangri-La as Rimshi (1956)

    • Honolulu Community Theater

  • Various productions (1950s)

    • University of Oregon

  • Brigadoon

    • President William McKinley High School Theater

  • 13 Daughters as Chun (late-1980s)

    • Hawaii Theatre

  • 13 Daughters as Kahuna (early-1990s)

    • Solo

  • Exotic Sounds of the Spice Island (Columbia, 1960)
  • My Hawai‘i (Columbia, 1962) (later reissued with a different cover on a Columbia budget label, Harmony)
  • Ed Kenney's Hawaii (ABC/Paramount, 1962) (later reissued with a different cover by Decca, 196?)
  • Somewhere in Hawai‘i (Waikiki, 1964)
  • Waikiki (Decca, 1966)
  • Royal Hawaiian Luau (Decca, 1967)
  • An Island (Lehua, 1977)

    • Included

  • Hawaii's Favorite Christmas Songs - Vol 2 (1999)
  • Hawaii's Sunset Melodies (1996)
  • Hawaii's Golden Treasures (1996)
  • Hawaii's Favorite Christmas Songs (1993)
  • Flower Drum Song: 1958 Original Broadway Cast (1958)

    • Singles

  • "Numbah One Day of Christmas" the Hawaiian Pidgin version of The Twelve Days of Christmas

    • Co-wrote this with Eaton "Bob" Magoon, Jr. (13 Daughters composer) and Gordon Phelps.

    References

    Ed Kenney Wikipedia
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