Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World

IZ is Israel Kamakawiwo’ole's artistic nickname. He's the man responsible for the best selling Hawaiian album of all time. Prematurely dead in 1997 due to extreme obesity, his touchingly sweet, high-pitched voice, already used by Hollywood in the soundtracks of “Finding Forrester” and “Meet Joe Black”, was recently heard in one of ER’s episodes, which may have triggered a second wave of people discovering his talented renditions of standards like “Over The Rainbow” and “What a wonderful world”, backed by traditional ukulele arrangements. This could be a boom among Radio 2 listeners.  shazam