Music legend Bill Sevesi has produced his sweet Hawaiian Steel Guitar sound for over six decades and has no plans to stop. Well-known for his musical sound, Bill has played all over New Zealand, America and around the Pacific. Now in his early eighties, Bill Sevesi (born Wilfred Jeffs, in Tonga 1923) started playing the Hawaiian Steel Guitar in 1936.
“I was living on a farm in Manukau, Auckland where the town centre is now located and was listening to the radio station, IZM when I heard the steel guitar sound for the first time. I fell in love with it.â€
He says it’s the closest sound to the human voice and is so smooth and beautiful. Bill was 14 at the time but it wasn’t long after that he learnt how to play the steel guitar, formed his own band and started playing gigs.
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