Hi`ilei Mano`i-Hyde is a student at Leeward Community College.  A talented composer who is also fluent in Hawaiian, she has won several achievement awards for her mele.  About this mele for her mele for her great-grandmother, Hi`ilei says:

He mele hoohanohano keia no kou wahi kupuna wahine o Gladys Manoi Kauhini a me kou makuahine o Cassandra Denise Kamanaolana Manoi-Hyde.  Ma loko no o ko laua aloha palena ole wau e ola mau ai.