Ray Kinney

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Ray Kinney was a singer, musician, composer, orchestra leader and performer on radio, stage and screen. Kinney was born in Hilo, Hawaii to Irish-Hawaiian parents William & Pilialoha Kinney. At age 15 he and his six brothers were sent to school in Salt Lake City, Utah. Already skilled on the ukulele and with a fine tenor voice, Ray and his brothers formed their own band and began touring the western US. He returned to Hawaii in 1920 upon the death of his mother. Ray was cast in 1925 as the lead in the opera “Prince of Hawaii” by noted Hawa...read more

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