Amy Hānaiali’i heading to the ProArts Playhouse with a show reflecting her versatility. Courtesy photo

Hawaii’s top-selling female vocalist of all time, Amy Hānaiali’i, is looking forward to performing at the ProArts Playhouse in Kihei on April 10.

“I love this intimate space,” she says. “I’m not used to that being up close and personal, so I love it because of that and the audiences are really great. And I love that I’m in my hometown. I don’t really ever get to perform in Kihei.”

With six Grammy nominations and 18 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards, the Maui-born entertainer is keeping it streamlined for her ProArts show, accompanied only by guitarist Josh Hearl.

“It’s going to be very eclectic,” she says of the repertoire.

As one of Hawaii’s most innovative and versatile artists, she can draw from a wide palette that includes Hawaiian music, jazz, soul, blues, pop and show tunes.

Accomplished across genres, her album 2015, “Chardonnay,” featured a sultry, jazzy arrangement of Bob Marley’s “Waiting in Vain.” “‘Aumakua” included the Rodgers and Hart standard “Blue Moon, while she recorded a cover of The Main Ingredient’s “Everybody Plays the Fool” with Rebel Souljahz.

On her debut album, “Nostalgia,” she journeyed into Brazilian samba territory with a version of “Cinnamon and Clove,” made popular by Sergio Mendes. She delved into the blues on the Wyland Blues Project Band’s “Blues Planet III,” and she included a lovely Hawaiian language version of Sting’s “Fields of Gold” on “Amy Hanaiali’i and Slack Key Masters of Hawai’i.”

Performing with Sal Godinez for over 30 years, Hānaiali’i recently paid tribute to the late Maui musician singing at his celebration of life in Kihei. She called him “one of my closest brothers.”

Following up on her marvelous Hōkū nominated album “Kalawai’anui,” Hānaiali’i is working towards an ambitious recording project that focuses on her family genealogy.

“It’s a new project that I’m getting ready to launch in a couple months,” she explains. “I’m getting ready to go back in the studio again. I just filmed a PBS special with ‘Family Ingredients.’ I was in Norway filming where my kupuna came from. My mom is half Norwegian, half Ojibwa Indian. All four of my great, great grandparents were all pure Norwegian on that side. She came from that lineage from Tinn Telemark, Norway. My family immigrated from there in 1880 to Wisconsin and I actually went into the church that my family went to in the 1400s.”

The project encompasses her lineage on all sides of her family. “It’s a really monster project, kind of a pinnacle moment of everything I’ve ever worked on in my life,” she says. “I’ve been doing genealogy for 35 years and a lot of people don’t know that.”

Working on an album and video, she says, “the concerts that I’m booking right now to promote that album, you’re going to be transported to Tinn Telemark with me. Just the footage I have is mind-blowing.”

She describes the new work as “very much a deep spiritual Hawaiian side, but also singing in English about my Norwegian heritage. There’s just a lot of similarities on the spiritual side of all facets of my family. There are hints of Ojibwe in it and hints of Norwegian in it, and of course Hawaiian.”

Tracing her genealogy on her father’s side, her “father’s grandfather was English from London,” she notes. “When we went to London, I traced eight of my great-grandfathers in Westminster Abbey. My great-grandmother was pure Hawaiian from Molokai. My grandmother was a Woodd, and her family name goes back 900 years in London.”

It was her grandmother, Jennie Napua Woodd, who encouraged her to pursue Hawaiian music. In the 1930s, her grandmother performed in New York City’s famed Lexington Hotel’s Hawaiian Room and taught hula to Hollywood stars like Shirley Temple. Hānaiali’i paid tribute to her grandmother with the album “Remembering Napua,” calling her “the biggest influence in my life.”

Hānaiali’i performs at the ProArts Playhouse at 7:30 p.m. April 10. Tickets range from $35 to $60 with a $5 kama’aina discount.