The Hawai‘i Academy of Recording Arts (HARA) is a nonprofit organization established to preserve, protect and promote one of Hawai‘i’s chief assets, its music. Membership is open to those who are now, or have previously been, active in the recording arts and sciences as professionals, such as radio, television, record company employees, arts and entertainment writers, and other members of the media, and, in a new category, individuals who are not professionally affiliated with the recording industry, but who have demonstrated a keen knowledge of and interest in the recorded music of Hawai’i.