“It has 400 volcanoes and it’s very hostile, so I wrote music that fitted that—in a cliche way, but I think it's effective because there's nothing subtle about the moon.” At 23 ...

Musical artist and composer Peter Moon, who helped inspire a renaissance of Hawaiian music in the 1970s, died Feb. 17 at the age of 73. Kanikapila Records, the company Moon formed in 1982 ...