Entertainment


	Anne Yuri Namba was born in Hawaii, but spent much of her youth in Bangkok, Thailand and Tehran, Iran. Her interest in fashion led her to New York where she graduated from cum laude from the prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology. She worked in New York then for six years with the last year spent in the Costume Department at Radio City Music Hall. In 1985, she returned to Hawaii and working out of her parents’ home began designing one-of-a-kind garments made from vintage Japanese kimonos and obis. In 1989, she opened her Honolulu boutique and Anne Namba Designs was born. Anne is a world celebrated designer and her clients include former First Lady Hilary Rodham Clinton, actress Elizabeth Taylor and singer Aretha Franklin. Anne Namba Designs honors us with a presentation of a montage of some of her most exciting pieces during a specially produced fashion show at Paradise Grand Finale. Garments may be purchased after the show later in the evening. You may also browse her stunniong collections at www.annenamba.com. Anne will be featured at Paradise Grand Finale.



	Rocky Brown’s career first started in 1987 with a single entitled “Let The Love Begin”, recorded in the Philippines. It became the number one song for that year which also became a gold single two weeks after it was released. She quickly gained ground in the entertainment industry, appearing on such television shows as “The Cosby Show”, “All My Children”, and “Another World”. She went on to do her own cabaret act, a one-woman show, which gained rave reviews among the theater crowd in Manhattan. After a successful career both in New York and the Philippines Rocky decided to trade in her dancing shoes for slippers in the warm and tranquil islands of Hawai’i. In 1995 she released the single “Love Song of Kalua” and went on to release her second CD in Hawaii in 1997 entitled “In Character”, that instantly made her a household name. Since then, she has performed at Carnegie Hall, performed with Philippine’s well renowned singer/songwriter Jose Marie Chan at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut, been featured with the Honolulu Symphony, and has opened for world famous trumpeter Arturo Sandoval. Rocky has also performed with Grammy Award-winning vocalist, James Ingram at the Roy Sakuma Ukulele Festival. We are proud to present Ms. Brown during the VIP Champagne Reception at the Paradise Grand Finale.



	Jimmy Borges is known to his many loyal fans as the “keeper of the flame” – referring to his musical respect for Gershwin, Porter, Kern, Mercer, Arlen, Rodgers & Hart and the rest of those legendary composers. Jimmy’s selections include music from these composers in every show. Jimmy’s musical career runs the gamut of intimate jazz clubs in San Francisco, Vancouver and Montreal, to the showrooms theater and concert halls of New York, Las Vegas, and Rio de Janeiro. In March 2008, Jimmy was awarded The Lifetime Achievement Award by the Hawai‘i Academy of Recording Arts (Na Hoku Hanohano), and in 2006 Jimmy received the Music Foundation of Hawai‘i’s Legacy Award for Lifetime Achievement as a vocalist. Jimmy’s early film career includes 30-plus segments of “Hawaii Five-0,” yearly Magnum P.I. appearances, made-for-television movies with Dennis Weaver, Bill Conrad and Jose Ferrer, and many other shows including the Rockford Files, Charlie’s Angels and the Jeffersons. As a proud civic-minded Hawaiian, Jimmy currently serves as a board member for PBS Hawaii and the National Society of Arts and Letters. Paradise Grand Finale is proud to present this island treasure for our listening audience’s pleasure. We are proud to present Mr. Borges during Paradise Grand Finale.