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Don Ho Donald Tai Loy Ho
Hawaiian entertainer
Born: 8/13/1930
Died:
4/14/2007
Birthplace: Honolulu,
Hawaii
Don Ho, Hawaii's most famous entertainer, claims
Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, German, and Dutch ancestry. He attended
Springfield (Mass.) College for a year, but returned home and earned a B.S.
from the University of Hawaii.
After a stint in the Air Force where he flew the
Boeing C-97, Ho bought a restaurant on Oahu. For entertainment, he grabbed a few
friends and started a band. He admits he was terrible at first, but steadily
improved until he was good enough to play the Waikiki clubs and hotels. He is best known
for the mellow but catchy song “Tiny Bubbles.” He hosted The Don Ho
Show (1976–1977) on ABC, and had cameo roles on such TV shows as The
Brady Bunch, Charlie's Angels, Batman, and I Dream of Jeannie.
His big-screen credit was as the evil landlord in Joe's Apartment
(1996), in which he costarred with singing and dancing cockroaches. Ho
continues to appear in Waikiki and on tour. His daughter Hoku is also a
singer and her song “Perfect Day” was used in the Reese Witherspoon film
Legally Blonde.
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