Owana Salazar

On February 3, 2017 in Fátima, Portugal, Owana Ka‘ōhelelani Salazar reestablished the Royal Order of the Crown of Hawai‘i in a protocol exchange with Dom Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza and Head of the Royal Family of Portugal, and other members of royal families and nobility of Europe and Africa. This event was the first exchange of royal honors between foreign houses of royalty and the Hawaiian Kingdom since the overthrow 124 years ago.

Her first recording in 1986, Owana and Kaʻipo, In Kona was nominated in the category of Most Promising Artist in the Na Hoku Hanohano Awards, a Hawaiian music industry salute. The following year, her second recording, Owana, was a final ballot nominee for Contemporary Hawaiian Album of the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year. Pupukea describes the characteristics of the ocean on the North Shore of Oʻahu. Kula Morning takes you upcountry Maui, gazing from mountain to the sea. "Na Wai" is a playful poetic expression of love's experiences, full of Hawaiian kaona (hidden meanings). "Kalamaula" celebrates the early homesteading movement of the Hawaiian people. "Silhouette Hula" is a hapa haole piece, recalling the early jazz years of Hawaiian music.

Secondly, she married Warren Kaipohoʻohuaʻamaua DeGuair, ca. 1980. They have a son:

For most of the 1980s, Salazar sang Hawaiian classics with the Royal Hawaiian Band and performed at venues in Waikiki and Japan. Jerry Byrd accepted Salazar as his student for formal study of Hawaiian steel guitar. Eventually, she received a full scholarship from the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association. In 1992, she became Byrd's only female graduate and has been called Hawaii's preeminent female steel guitarist. Besides Hawaii, Salazar has also performed in Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, and the Americas. In January 2000, she became the first woman to tour with the Hawaiian Slack Key Festival along with George Kahumoku, Jr., Keoki Kahumoku and Daniel Ho.

Princess Owana Kaʻōhelelani Mahealani-Rose Salazar (born October 30, 1953) is a musician considered to be the only female steel guitar player in Hawaiʻi to be trained by Jerry Byrd. She is a descendant of Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox and Princess Theresa Owana Kaʻōhelelani Laʻanui, of the House of Keoua, the originating line of the House of Kamehameha. She has been involved in Hawaiian sovereignty issues representing the Royal Family and is a current claimant to the crown of the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands.

Owana Kaʻohelelani Mahealani-Rose Laʻanui Wilcox Salazar was born in October 1953. Her parents were Helena Kalokuokamaile Wilcox and Henry Mario Salazar.

After the passing of Elizabeth in 1928, her niece, Princess Theresa Owana Kaʻohelelani Laʻanui became the head of the House of Laʻanui and married Robert William Wilcox. The next primogenitor rights was to their son, Prince Robert Keoua Kalanikupuapaikalaninui Wilcox, having his first daughter, Princess Helena Kalokuokamaile who became the head of the royal house in 1944. Her daughter, Princess Owana Kaʻohelelani Salazar succeeded her and became the head of the royal house in 1988.

Salazar is among many that believe the Kingdom of Hawaii still exists and while some genealogists recognize the claims of Princess Abigail Kawānanakoa as a potential heir to the throne, Princess Salazar asserts her claim as a descendant of the House of Keōua Nui. A principle component of Salazar's claim is the 1844 proclamation by Kamehameha III that named Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau Laʻanui as one of the 15 children of high aliʻi descent sent to the Chief's Children's School that made them eligible to rule in different positions, including monarch. Elizabeth Laʻanui died without children and Genealogist Edith McKenzie stated that each person that ruled required approval from the House of Nobles although only two monarchs from those children actually did. Salazar dismisses the Kawananakoa claim due to her line through Princess Theresa Owana Kaʻōhelelani Laʻanui, the daughter of Prince Gideon Kailipalaki Laʻanui and granddaughter of Prince Gideon Peleioholani Laʻanui.