Is the seventh of ten children. I'm John Travolta's brother, Joey, directs the film, which co-stars Morgan Fairchild and Greg Evigan (of TV's "My Two Dads") and features music from Hawaiian singer Don Ho's daughter, Hoku. He also featured younger talent, including his daughter Hoku Ho, who had two Top 40 pop singles in 2000. . He would ask for all the Pearl Harbor survivors to stand. After much success, and little room to grow, promoter Kimo Wilder McVay sought Don to play at a night club called Duke's owned by Duke Kahanamoku, where he caught the attention of record company officials. Attended La Pietra: Hawaii School for Girls located in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. "When I was younger I had the security of my dad being behind me, covering up if I made a mistake or making a joke here or there to ease the tension if something happened. (made from boiled taro roots), Hoku is trying to slap your kids do their own thing; they march to a different drum these days. WATCH out Britney and Christina, Hoku Ho has just released her first The elder Ho, who is headlining the shows (which will also include performances by the Kids Next Door, a song-and-dance ensemble), will invite Hoku onstage to perform cuts from her debut album, the tongue-in-cheek-titled "Another Dumb Blonde," released earlier this year. On another occasion, he was making repairs to the roof of his house when his heart suddenly started racing. [1] He was born in the small Honolulu neighborhood of Kakaako to Emily (Honey) Leimaile Silva and James Ah You Puao Ho, but he grew up in Kneohe on the windward side of the island of Oahu. Then came Christina Ho has a mixed ethnic heritage, claiming Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, and German descent. Hoku's hit "Another Dumb Blonde," from perform her song at the premiere of "Snow Day" Feb. 11 at kinda knows this business already," he said. boyfriend, Hoku is eager to enjoy her success, which may And then when all this happened, someone told me 'You're 75.' Its video was a favorite on MTV's "Total Request Live" video show. Ho's music used typical 1960s pop arrangements, which meant light instrumentation and Hammond organs. Hapa, one of Hawaii's most popular bands, performs a couple of numbers. 12 Actors and Celebrities Who Are Pacific Islander Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. games if I'm not sleeping," she said. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, All rights reserved. [2] Ho released his debut album, The Don Ho Show!, in 1965 and began to play high-profile locations in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and New York City. 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His TV r?sum? also includes appearances on The Brady Bunch, Charlies Angels, Batman and I Dream of Jeannie. In 1996, Ho appeared on the big screen, portraying the evil landlord in Joes Apartment. While dad may be holding back advice now, he taught her plenty while Stats. "There's room in the girl arena for her to fit For other uses, see, "The 50 Hottest Celebrity Daughters: 25. lot of time trying to make it okay for the children," Armato assisted Hoku in securing the deal,[4] and Ho insisted that he and his lawyers review it before she signed. "Don Ho" goes to South Carolina - Hawaii Magazine Beyond 'Tiny Bubbles:' Don Ho, Hawaii's Favorite Son ", In February and March, Hoku will perform 19 concerts on the East Coast who has written for Mariah Carey and Vanessa Williams, was struck by Hoku's Don Ho, one of James and Emily "Honey" Ho's nine children, was born in the quiet Honolulu neighborhood of Kakaako on the island of Oahu. talks to help her handle fame. music TV station's 10th most requested video. "Don Ho Abandons Little Grass Shack; Hawaiian Is Voice of Islands' New Sound Brings Kui Lee Songs to the Royal Box". Blonde" for her. In the fall of 1966, Ho released his most famous song, "Tiny Bubbles", which charted on both the pop (#57 Billboard) and easy listening charts and caused his subsequent album, also called "Tiny Bubbles", to remain in the album Top 200 for almost a year. Because if you had, you'd surely remember her name. Ho was a singer of Native Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, and German descent. then once in the end of the show just in case. she appeared on Nickelodeon's "The Big Help" with the group and Released as the lead single from the album and included on the Snow Day soundtrack, Another Dumb Blonde peaked at #27 in the US. "He sits me down in this chair -- I can barely reach the mike and you can barely see me from the auditorium -- and he just had me sit there and sing this song, and I got a standing ovation, which was pretty crazy for an 11-year-old. While the pair This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. One of Ho's 10 offspring, this pretty, petite blonde isn't riding her father's famous coattails to the top -- at least, not entirely. "Because of the saturation of pop singers, right now the market is kind of rejecting anyone but people like Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera and the two boys bands ('N Sync and the Backstreet Boys).". "This is no indication of my cooking," ), "It's so exciting to have worked so hard for so long for something [7] "People helped me a lot, because of who my dad was," she said. That faith, Hoku says, has also helped her adjust to her burgeoning fame and success. Mr. Ho took over Honeys and resumed performing. Don Ho spread his special brand of aloha that included fathering 10 children. He was 76. Britney's star power, she can do without the sultry pouts "I used to look through magazines and, like, ooh and ahh at their On Saturday, she will travel to Big Bear, Calif., I sing it at the beginning, he told them, in case some of you dont make it to the end of the show., Everyone laughed, as Ho paused for effect. Later in the month, Ho said, "I'm feeling much better and I'm so happy I came up here to do it. From her first and only full-length studio album, Hoku(c) 2000 Geffen RecordsThe daughter of entertainer Don Ho, Hoku hit the charts in early 2000 with "Anot. And Itell her, anytime she's ready, she can come While Mr. Ho was at the peak of his popularity, a grass-roots movement called the Hawaiian renaissance was stirring at home. "When Britney Armato ended up writing the song "Another Dumb "Now that I've had some fame and some success, my opinions matter more, so there's definitely going to be some changes, and there's going to be more of me coming out in my music. She was the mother to his first six children. clothes and what they were doing," she said. She's not going out there expecting to be an overnight success or to make a lot of money, because she's really not in it for the money.". video requests was just my silly dream. "I may have to ask her In his stage show, Ho would make jokes about being sent in the mid-1950s to Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi and being Hawaiian. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Her sole full sibling is younger sister Kaimana. She is the daughter of Patricia and musician Don Ho. He loved to work with his children, teaching them the entertainment business. ", This page was last edited on 25 March 2023, at 02:00. ", In reality Hoku has never just been the Life and career [ edit] Ho was a singer of Native Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, and German descent. "I started singing when I was 11. He would tell the men from the European Theater, "you got your glory in the movies" that they could watch. And along the line, Don . Whatever the song dad and daughter do, it definitely won't be dad's [7] She married her high school sweetheart, Jeremy Clements, in 1999. -- Michael Fleeman in Los Angeles, Celebrity Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. [5] Among her appearances, she taped a Disney Channel special with boy band 98 Degrees, and over the summer participated in a Disney-sponsored tour (though she was not the headlining act). "My dad is really the entertainer, the one who everyone knows, who "Right now its more advantageous for me to tag onto a larger (performer's tour) and just be the opening act," Hoku says. But I In 1963, he moved the Kneohe Honey's to Waikk. "When my daughter sings with me, I'm really proud," Ho said. On-island for the funeral of her grandmother . two did not have the time to do so. He began playing shows in Waikiki, and his popularity soared. Late in 2005, Mr. Hos regular engagement was interrupted because of a heart condition called nonischemic cardiomyopathy, a muscular weakness unrelated to coronary artery disease. "I don't think that the (Hawaiian) radio stations got behind her as much as they could have or as much as they should have, given the quality of what she's done," Berger says. "I was always stealing the spotlight.I'm [3][2][4] Her given name, Hoku, is the Hawaiian word for star. Guroadrunner 14:09, 15 April 2007 (UTC) [ reply] Aloha e Don. everyone away," recalls Ho, who added her number to his first of his two by Patricia Swallie Choy, 48, a former "He's family. The song is the theme for the Nick Movies/Paramount picture "Snow Illness. "That was the moment I got the call to see The Don." DUCK TALK "We had the privilege of seeing Mr. Ho and his beautiful daughter Hoku in 2002," said a reader who e-mailed from Milpitas, Calif. "It was a great show and after, Don and Hoku greeted everyone, never refusing an autograph request, eternally gracious. Spears came on the scene, they said no one else could do Don Ho's Daughter Found Dead Less Than a Week After His Funeral His blend of gentle humor, charm and vocal talents helped him mesmerize audiences since the early 1960s after he bought a Kaneohe cocktail lounge and started his own band. At 11, After listening to it "I don't dwell on the future, because I have Unlike her previous works, this is her first Christian EP. In 1995 at the age of 65, Ho's health began to get bad. From her first and only full-length studio album, Hoku(c) 2000 Geffen RecordsThe daughter of entertainer Don Ho, Hoku hit the charts in early 2000 with \"Another Dumb Blonde\" on the soundtrack of Nickelodeon's Snow Day. says. and sexy videos. Hoku (she dropped her last name after relocating to Los Angeles to I don't want and to finally see it come to life now," Hoku said. She's made maintaining her morals and values a priority. first big gold medal in the Olympics. The music is light and easy listening, with an emphasis on strings and acoustic guitar rather than today's more common hip-hop grooves. The legendary Don Ho died on April 14, 2007, at the age of 76 after more than four decades in show business, Don Ho will be long remembered for his humor and his dulcet interpretations of the Hawaiian songs that made him Waikikis top entertainer for a generation. (Hoku and Kaimana joined her soon after). or redistributed. Born Donald Tai Loy Ho in the Honolulu enclave of Kakaako, Mr. Ho had an ethnic background worthy of the islands melting-pot ideal: he was of Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and German descent. Day," starring Chevy Chase. In 1995, at age 65, Ho suffered a mild stroke and his health began a steady decline. She grew up in Oahu's affluent Diamond Head neighborhood "I think Hoku sings it well and she also comes across well on videos.". in a telephone interview from Los Angeles. Hoku was born Hoku Christian Ho[2] on June 10, 1981, on the island of Oahu, part of the Hawaiian Islands, the daughter of entertainer Don Ho and Patricia Swallie. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea. Hoku Ho, Don's daughter, was all smiles as she sang a duet with her father at his 70th birthday celebration on Aug. 16, 2000. "I've put my original goals of finishing college and recording an She has also been credited as Hoku Ho Clements. My first solo was 'I Will Always Love You,' " Hoku recalled in a recent phone call from Los Angeles, where she relocated to pursue her music career. Now Hoku doesn't have to sneak on stage anywhere; she's holding court by says Choy, who tired of the arrangement and left Ho in 1997 His rise as a popular singer dovetailed with a visitor boom that followed statehood in 1959 and the advent of affordable air travel. signing something that wasn't good.". (One of her compositions, the acoustic-tinged "You First Believed," is featured on "Blonde."). She is married to Jeremy Clements, with whom she has . Mr. Ho enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1954, receiving his certification as a fighter pilot in Texas but never seeing combat. HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - It's a years long, bitter legal battle between some of Don Ho's children and the trustees of the late entertainer's estate. she says. His shows would be attended by celebrities in addition to ordinary tourists. Manhattan Beach, Calif., apartment. (The soundtrack will be released Feb. 8). Ho left the United States Air Force in 1959 due to his mother's developing illness and began singing at her club in Kaneohe. "It took me 40 years to get where I am, and in three months she's passed me," marvels Ho, 69, who named Hoku after the Hawaiian word for "star." He called it right. When I was working in the show, he did it once in the beginning of the Don Ho: Don Ho - Waikiki's Entertainment Legend - ALOHA HAWAII Ho was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy in 2005 and had a pacemaker implanted. Hers can't help but stand out from the others currently dominating the music-industry charts: Britney, Christina, Jessica, Mandy. Hoku Information Hoku Information miracle" she never imagined even in her wildest fantasies. Her songs are never sexual the way those of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera surely are. Despite his failing health, Ho was always hopeful, and resilient to find a solution to his health issues. "It's hard not to get lumped into that group, and I think in the beginning that's where my record label wanted to take me. Hoku Ho, daughter of entertainer Don Ho, has a shot at opening for 'N Sync's U.S. tour. his audiences, Ho's enthusiastic ravings caught the ear of 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. So it's good for her to understand that.". success of "Another Dumb Blonde," Hoku put her "You know, everyone's got to pay their dues.". Dukes, their resident lounge, became a hot spot for locals and tourists alike and a hangout for celebrities taking a break from Hollywood and Las Vegas. Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features - Hawaii Renovation A few months later, her debut album was released peaking at #151 on the Billboard charts. Although his album sales peaked in the late 1960s, he was able to land a television series on ABC from October 1976 to March 1977 with The Don Ho Show variety program which aired on weekday mornings.[4][5]. In 2005, he sang a song that was used as the opening theme to the direct-to-video and DVD movie Aloha, Scooby-Doo!. As for free time, there isn't much for the budding performer. Hoku was attending the Christian college Point Loma Nazarene University Cast David Henrie, Scott Clifton, Greg Evigan, Lee Majors, Bug Hall, Morgan Fairchild, Lorenzo Henrie, Gemini Barnett. "I will always have this Hoku Ho grew up performing at her father's show in Waikiki. have," says Hoku, 18. can be temporary and to focus on just being happy," he "Hoku has been on stage with me since she was a little kid, so she Ho was originally signed to Reprise Records. In 2000, she went on to become a well known singer. for 'N Sync during the group's month-long U.S. tour in May. something to fall back on that other people don't "I told her she's got to go to school and be a business person besides an entertainer because there's no sense making money and (not knowing) what to do with it," he said. "People can tell on my face and my smile. But it's not me.". signed a three-year, $300,000 recording contract with Geffen Records on its Don Ho enjoyed asking for a show of hands of veterans of World War II. Hoku was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the daughter of Hawaiian music icon Don Ho. I would rather set a good example for children because that's your target audience -- little girls -- and it's important that those little girls have a role model. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Hoku Ho's debut [14] She wrote and funded an EP, Listen Up, which was released on August 1, 2008, through the singer's own Ola Vista Records. [10] Shocked by the single's success, Hoku dropped out of Point Loma Nazarene and began recording her first album Hoku (2000). Having scorched the Hawaiian Village to sing his signature hit, "Tiny Hoku is an American singer. "It's just, like, you hear "Not to sound sanctimonious or anything, but I did feel like there was a gap there, where kids didn't have someone that they could look up to who was cool, that was dressing appropriately for their age," she says. Berger says Hoku "has two excellent advisors in her mother and father. With a sparkle in his eyes, Don introduced his "star" of the evening, daughter Hoku, a well-known pop singer in her own right. Occupation: Singer: Relatives. Guevara, 44, another former Ho singer, who also had two & More Festival" that kicks off June 29 in California. Don had ten children in all with first wife Melvia; one of his daughters, singer Hoku (their seventh child, whose name means "star" in Hawaiian), often performed with him and went on to launch her own musical career. it. And then I sing it at the end, he teased, because the rest of you might forget I already sang it., That was Don Ho, the consummate entertainer. But The family later moved to Kaneohe, also on Oahu, where his parents owned Honey's, a bar named after his mother. the studio." ", In September 2006, Ho married Haumea Hebenstreit, who was a production assistant for his show at the Waikk Beachcomber. Then came the hit records. acoustic track "You First Believed" which she wrote, produced and One of his 10 children, daughter Hoku, is a pop singer who performed . Sister of Don Ho Jr.. I told her that (performing) will be the happiest time of her day -- it is for me, anyway -- because she's around happy people all of the time, laughing and singing and all of that stuff. album, she said. While the pair Ho always honored the military remembering his own years of military service. She knows she has dad to thank for being discovered. Ho, Don | Encyclopedia.com [7] The song was a top ten sales hit in the United States and peaked at number 27 on the Billboard Hot 100,[4][9] additionally charting at number 47 in New Zealand. Talk:Don Ho - Wikipedia Donald Tai Loy Ho (August 13, 1930 - April 14, 2007) was a Hawaiian traditional pop musician, singer and entertainer. younger kids, because they relate to me being the girl next as featured performers at this year's Nickelodeon "All That Music I was, like, freaking out. Don Ho sadly passed away on April 14, 2007, at age 76. And when I come home I crash big time. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Christina, because I mean I'm still this star-struck little girl just But even more incredibly, Hoku is being considered to be the opening act
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