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The Honolulu Advertiser
Updated at 3:04 p.m., Monday, April 14, 2008

OBITUARY
Hawaii singer Nani Lee Meadows dies

Advertiser Staff

Hawaii news photo - The Honolulu Advertiser

Kui Lee and Nani Lee Meadows are shown performing together.

Photo courtesy of Nani Lee Meadows' family

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Nani Lee Meadows, a singer and Hawaiian-Polynesian dancer during the 1950s and 1960s, died in her sleep Saturday, her family announced. She was 76.

Meadows, the widow of singer songwriter Kui Lee, is survived by daughters Wailana, Mahealani Lee and Maile Lee-Tolentino; son Kimo Lee; sister Elizabeth Libby Naone Bailey; brother William "Billy" Naone; 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

She performed with Kui Lee and the late Don Ho, among many others. She was featured on the Waikiki Swings album and Don Ho's Greatest Hits album and performed regularly with Kui Lee at the Hawaiian Room in the Lexington Hotel in New York City and at the Queen's Surf in Waikiki.

Services are pending.