Five individuals, a duo and a quartet — 11 people in all — will be honored Sunday when Hawai’i Academy of Recording Arts presents its 2015 Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Ala Moana Hotel.

The afternoon will include performances by honorees Henry Kaleialoha Allen, Richard Ho’opi’i, Kenneth Makuakane and the surviving members of Puamana. Three honorees from previous years — Nina Keali’iwahamana, Noelani Mahoe and the Leo Nahenahe Singers — will also perform.

Here is a quick look at the honorees:

>> Henry Kaleialoha Allen is a noted entertainer and steel guitar player who has worked with some of the top names in Hawaiian music. He continues to record, teach steel guitar and ukulele, and perform for visitors from around the world. 

>> Musician-arranger Harold Hakuole spent most of his career as a sideman "20 feet from stardom" backing other artists. He also contributed to Hawaiian music as the producer of more than two dozen albums and countless 45-rpm singles for Tradewinds Records in the 1950s and 1960s.   

>> Solomon "Sol" Ho’opi’i and his younger brother, Richard Ho’opi’i, were one of the great Hawaiian falsetto duos of the 20th century. Known and loved for their high falsetto harmonies, the Ho’opi’i Brothers recorded six albums, performed at the Smithsonian Festival of American Folk Life in Washington, D.C., in 1990 and received the National Endowment for the Arts Folk Heritage Fellowship in 1996. Solomon Ho’opi’i died in 2006; Richard will be performing at the awards show with his son, Kai.

>> "Whodaguy" Ron Jacobs was a major figure in the birth of modern radio in Hawaii in the 1950s and a founding member of the KPOI "Poi Boys" who co-wrote the first pidgin-English rock ‘n’ roll songs, "Da Kind" and "S’why Hard." Jacobs left Hawaii in the 1960s and pioneered the development of nationally syndicated radio programs including "American Top 40." Back in Hawaii as program director and morning-drive star on KKUA in the mid-1970s, "Whodaguy" gave Hawaiian music unprecedented exposure on Honolulu’s top-rated radio station while his series of "Homegrown" albums launched countless local music industry careers including Nohelani Cypriano, John Keawe and Ken Emerson. 

>> HARA board member Kenneth Makuakane, at 60 the youngest award recipient, is a multitalented musician and prolific composer who has written such local hits as "Pili Mau Me ‘Oe," "Okie Dokie Makou" and "Sway It Hula Girl." He also produced recordings by Na Leo Pilimehana, Amy Hanaiali’i Gilliom, Raiatea Helm, O’Brian Eselu and Jeff Rasmussen.

>> Jimmy Mo’ikeha first gained fame as a child star and continued on as an adult with songs like "Maui Girl," "Hawaii Calls," "A Maile Lei for Your Hair" and "Behold Laie." He enjoyed a successful career in the hotel industry while continuing to perform in Asia and Hawaii,  co-starring in a show with Melveen Leed and filling in for vacationing showroom headliners such as Danny Kaleikini and Haunani Kahalewai. 

>> Puamana was founded by Irmgard Farden Aluli in the 1960s and first recorded as a quartet with Irmgard, her daughters Mihana Aluli Souza and Aima Aluli McManus, and her niece Luana Farden McKinney in the 1980s. Aluli died in 2001 but her daughters and granddaughter Mahina Souza are carrying on Puamana’s musical legacy. She received HARA’s Lifetime Achievement Award as an individual in1988 and is now the fourth person to have received the honor twice.  

The Lifetime Achievement Award originated as the Sidney Grayson Award and was created along with the regular Na Hoku Hanohano Awards in 1978. It was named in honor of KCCN owner Sidney Grayson in recognition of his commitment to presenting Hawaiian music on radio and his support of KCCN disc jockey Krash Kealoha in creating the Hoku Awards. 

The Hawai’i Academy of Recording Arts took over administration of the Hoku Awards in 1982 and removed Grayson’s name from the award five years later. It has been the Lifetime Achievement Award ever since.

Beginning in 2009 HARA has also presented a "special industry award," renamed the Krash Kealoha Award in 2012 in honor of the Hoku Awards founder. This year’s recipient, the Kamehameha Alumni Glee Club, is celebrating its 61st year of traditional Hawaiian choral singing

The 38th annual Na Hoku Hanohano Awards, Hawaii’s equivalent of the Grammys, will be presented May 23 at the Hawai’i Convention Center. For more information, visit nahokuhanohano.org.