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Posted on: Sunday, March 6, 2005

Martin Denny funeral planned

Advertiser Staff

A service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Waikiki Elks Club for Martin Denny, the 93-year-old composer, recording artist and Waikiki musician who died Wednesday night at his Hawai'i Kai apartment.

Scattering of ashes will follow. Aloha attire is preferred.

Denny was born in New York and moved to Honolulu in 1954. He was perhaps best known for developing and defining his own sound, which became the pop-music genre called "exotica," combining bird calls, jungle chimes and croaking frogs with Asian, Latin and Pacific rhythms, jazz and pop music.

Denny is survived by a daughter, Christina Denny, and sister, Judith Kane.

Contributions may be made to the Live Music Awareness Martin Denny Fund for Aspiring Musicians, 949 Kapi'olani Blvd., Honolulu, HI 96814.