Music legend Bill Sevesi has produced his sweet Hawaiian Steel Guitar sound for over six decades and has no plans to stop. Bill has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement by the NZ recording industry Association and the Queens Service Medal for his contribution to music in NZ.

Well-known for his musical sound, Bill has played all over New Zealand, America and around the Pacific. Now in his early eighties, Bill Sevesi (born Wilfred Jeffs, in Tonga 1923) started playing the Hawaiian Steel Guitar in 1936.

"I was living on a farm in Manukau, Auckland where the town centre is now located and was listening to the radio station, IZM when I heard the steel guitar sound for the first time. I fell in love with it."

He says it's the closest sound to the human voice and is so smooth and beautiful. Bill was 14 at the time but it wasn't long after that he learnt how to play the steel guitar, formed his own band and started playing gigs. For over 50 years, Bill Sevesi's music has been reproduced in soundtracks for movies, television commercials and more.

Tracks:

1. 12th Street Rag
2. Blue Girl In Blue Tahiti
3. Tahiti Nui4. Tahitian Lullaby
4. Just A Little Dreamy Island
5. Heaven In The Ocean
6. Puii Puii
7. Twilight In Hawaii
8. At Night By The Ocean
9. Waikiki Tamure
10. Honolulu Moon
11. My isle Of Golden Dreams
12. Mata Lafu lau Kai