Hawaii Seniors Bring Down the House at Graduation
The YouTube video of the graduation has over 1 million views.
— -- High-profile commencement speakers usually get all the attention around graduation time, but in Hawaii it was the graduating class themselves who stole the show.
The Class of 2015 at Hawaii’s Kahuku High and Intermediate School broke into an over eight-minute medley during their graduation, featuring songs ranging from “Shake It Off” by Taylor Swift to "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus and Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk.”
A video of the performance was posted to YouTube May 29th and has since been watched over 1 million times. The YouTube poster says the seniors learned the medley in two days and did a “great job.”
For the grand finale, the Kahuku High seniors performed the "Kaipahua Kura,” a haka, or war dance, made specifically for the school.
The haka’s chorus is translated to, “Who are we? We are the Red Raiders,” according to a website associated with the school’s athletic teams.
Kahuku High and Intermediate School is known as “The Pride of the North Shore" and serves around 1,600 students in grades seven through 12, according to the school's website.