His version of the song Nothing Gonna Change My Love For You became an international hit in the mid-1980s. That was the song that catapulted Glenn Medeiros to fame, but after that hit the Hawaiian singer-songwriter didn’t have the same recognition and for many fell into oblivion. He also participated in the third part of Karate Kid in 1989, but since then, although he continued composing and releasing songs, little has come of his career and his evolution.
His daughter, Lyric Leolani Medeiros, is also dedicated to the show, she is an actress who, unlike her father, maintains several active profiles on social networks as an artist. It has been on TikTok where the young woman has shared a short video of her father in which Glenn Madeiros appears three decades after becoming known worldwide and has been surprised by his great physical change.
Apart from releasing several studio albums until 2007, Madeiros continued studying at university despite becoming a global star at a very young age. He earned a BA in History and Humanities from the University of Hawaii’s West Oahu, an M.Ed. from the University of Phoenix, and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Southern California, the latter in 2014.
For all these reasons, the artist is now dedicated to teaching at a center on his native island of O’ahu. Since 2015 he has been the director of the Saint Louis School and on his social networks he almost exclusively shares images related to teaching, but he also publicizes his daughter’s successes in her profession, although she, despite not being recognized worldwide, has more followers. on Instagram than him.
Madeiros began in music as the child prodigy who entertained the journeys of the passengers who boarded his father’s tourist bus on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. And he turned professional by winning a local talent show with a cover of George Benson’s Nothing’s gonna change my love for you. The version of the song and the young promise reached the ears of radio executive Guy Zapoleon who took the song and made it a hit in the United States. It reached number 12 on the Billboard chart and number 1 in the UK in 1988.
