HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Crossing Rain is done, but the members continue on; especially for Keola Kaneshiro “Uch,”Jorden Kealoha-Yamanaka, and Devin Teruya. The three talented singer/songwriter/dancers debuted as a new group called “Party Foul” at the “Unforgettable Gala” also known as the 22nd Annual Asian American Awards in Beverly Hills Saturday night.

In the audiende were global luminaries such as Anna Sawai, Joan Chen, Daniel Dae Kim, Awkwafina, Lisa Ling, Simu Liu, The Jets and Ken Jeong.

According to the Asian American Awards, “Party Foul was involved with a “very special AAPI timeline performance” that bnrought the audience through the decades, including The Jets, who were the first AAPI group to get into the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart and 98 Degrees according to a release. Party Foul, made their worldwide debut by performing new music and collaborating with 98 Degrees. The group also played music at the “After Party.

During those same awards, Mauiʻs own Rachel Kondo accepted the writers award; Rachel and her husband Justin Marks are an award winning team that gets to work on epic projects like SHOGUN on FX that has been scooping up awards. Rachel is the Executive Producer and writer/co-creator of the series, her husband Justin was also showrunner for the series. Congratultaions to Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks!

Auliʻi Cravalho is the voice of Moana on the original and sequel called Moana2. It has broken just about every Thanksgiving Weekend box office numbers you could look up. Updated Box Office numbers this morning show that Moana2 made 26.6 million dollars this weekend with 337.5 million overall domestically. Moana2 is right now #4 all-time Walt Disney movie, soon to supass Zootopia and the two Frozen movies which did a little over 400 million dollars. Moana2 breaks every Thanksgiving box office record and continues to do well.

Since weʻre talking about Aulii Cravalho, she was recently on “The Late Late Show with Stephen Colbert” which is just a short walk on the same street on Broadway from where Auliʻi is part of the cast of “Caberet”! They not only talked about Auliʻi being part of Moana2 and working with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, but also being on the “Caberet” cast, where she speaks with an English Accent. See Aulii on Broadway if you get a chance.

Finally, donʻt forget to watch “Christmas in Hawaiʻi with Kimie Miner & Friends”. The continuation of her Emmy nominated Holiday offerings aired exclusively on Hawaii News Now on KHNL & K5 and will also air encore presentations as we get closer to Christmas. Another presentation will be this Sunday night 7:00pm, simulcast on KHNL & K5 TV.

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