From about 1895 to 1915, Hawaiian music dance bands became in demand more and more. These were typically string quintets. Ragtime music influenced the music, and English words were commonly used in the lyrics. This type of Hawaiian music, influenced by popular music and with lyrics being a combination of English and Hawaiian (or wholly English), is called hapa haole (literally: half white) music. In 1903, Albert "Sonny" Cunha composed "My Waikiki Mermaid", arguably the first popular hapa haole song (The earliest known hapa haole song, "Eating of the Poi", was published in "Ka Buke o na Leo Mele Hawaii...o na Home Hawaii" in Honolulu in 1888 Kanahele, George S., "Hawaiian Music and Musicians" pp 71–72).