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Basil Henriques And The Waikiki Islanders
12+ albums
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He is highly experienced as a Musical Arranger-Record producer-Vocal Technique coach. ( Studio and live performance skills ) He has arranged the music, performed as a session musician on various instruments, produced and supervised the vocal performance, engineered and mixed All of the following :- Albums :- Bagatelle (ALL of their original demos for songs such as "Summer in Dublin" etc) Peggy's Leg ( Album, "Grinilla" ) Philomena Begley ( 8 albums and most of her singles) Foster & Allen ( 3 albums and 3 singles) Ray Lynam ( Various albums and singles ) Big Tom ( 16 albums and various singles) Larry Cuningham ( Various albums, singles and videos) T.R. Dallas ( Various albums and singles ) Brendan Shine ( Various albums and singles ) Cathy Durkin ( Various albums and singles ) Susan McCann ( Various albums and singles ) John Hogan ( Various albums and singles ) Hank Locklin ( Various albums and singles ) Tony Stevens ( Various albums and singles ) Buddy Boland ( Album ) Sean McGuire ( 2 albums ) Donna Darlene (1 album ) and MANY others in the entertainment business in Ireland He started playing guitar at eleven years of age and took up Hawaiian guitar at twelve. His first pedal guitar was a six string gibson 4 pedal electraharp. At fourteen he was playing in his mother's group "The Blue Hawaiians" and at sixteen formed the "Waikiki Islanders" . From 1966 to 1968 he was resident at the "Castaways" night club in Birmingham with his group , also playing at the BBC Broad Stree
