Don Ho Net Worth is
$11 Million

Mini Biography

The icon of breezy island entertainment, Don Ho became synonymous with Hawaii and everything it represented…multi-colored leis and shirts, festive luaus, strumming ukuleles, moving palm trees, gorgeous hula dancers, and, obviously, the song “Small Bubbles”. A vacation towards the “Aloha Condition” seemed imperfect unless capped with a Don Ho functionality, a visitor attraction unto itself. He happy thousands upon hundreds for pretty much five years and was dubbed that island’s “goodwill ambassador”. Born in the tiny Honolulu community of Kakaako on August 13, 1930, he was among nine kids blessed using a mixed cultural traditions that encompassed the Hawaiian, Chinese language, Portuguese, Dutch and German civilizations. He was a higher school football superstar by enough time he still left the state to review at Springfield University in Massachusetts. Chronic homesickness acquired him time for his beloved isle by year’s end. Participating in the School of Hawaii in 1954, he gained a BA in sociology, after that served using the Air flow Force like a fighter pilot and was honorably discharged as an initial lieutenant in 1959. His parents owned a cocktail lounge, Honey’s, in Honolulu and Don formed a little music group to entertain the clients. The place began flourishing with business. He advanced to bigger resorts in the region (“Dukes”, which became Typically the most popular night time spot, because of him) and created his personal laidback design buoyed by easy, funny banter and, most importantly, talented music artists. Reprise Records captured hearing of his achievement and authorized him up. Don’s well-known live albums “The Don Ho Display” in 1965 as well as the “Don Ho–Again!” had been the outcomes. “Small Bubbles” (1966), which he nearly didn’t record, became #8 within the Billboard graphs and the personal song that opened up and shut all his displays. Other popular music in his repertoire included “Pearly Shells”, “I’ll Keep in mind You” and “With All My Like”. Extending himself even more inland, he appreciated the nation’s best niteries in LA, NEVADA, Lake Tahoe, Chicago and NY, often breaking attendance reports along the way. A frequent visitor on it range and night-time chat present circuits, he gained his very own ABC daytime comedy-variety present, The Don Ho Present (1976) which filmed in Waikiki Seaside. He produced fun cameo performances on TV as well, often as himself, on such well-known displays as “I Imagine Jeannie”, “Batman”, “The Brady Number”, “Charlie’s Angels”, “Illusion Isle” and “McCloud”. Although he lost main clout after his 60s and 70s music reign and was thereafter denounced/dismissed only a small amount a lot more than an outdoors lounge act, Don’s natural charm and obvious charisma hardly ever lost for an audience back by himself Hawaiian turf, and he was hailed as Hawaii’s exact carbon copy of the “Rat Pack” with regards to design and sustained popularity. He was also a well-known restaurateur (Don Ho’s Isle Grill, which opened up in 1998). Don developed heart disease (cardiomyopathy) in 2005 but didn’t allow it prevent him from doing what he loved finest. He was a mainstay in Waikiki (for over 40 years) as well as the Waikiki Beachcomber Resort was his established stomping grounds, ever dependable behind his brand Hammond body organ, crooning music and teaching enthusiastic visitors simple Hawaiian vocabulary and customs. In 2006 he previously his pacemaker changed. He passed away of heart failing at age group 76 on Apr 14, 2007. Don experienced ten children in every with 1st wife Melvia; one of is own daughters, vocalist Hoku (their seventh kid, whose name means “celebrity” in Hawaiian), frequently performed with him and continued to release her personal musical profession. He wedded Haumea Hebenstreit, who created his show in the Beachcomber, in 2006.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Don Ho
Died	April 14, 2007, Waikiki, Honolulu County, Hawaii, Hawaii, United States
Height	1.75 m
Profession	Actor, Singer, Songwriter, Fighter pilot, Tiny Bubbles, I'll Remember You, Pearly Shells
Education	Kamehameha Schools, Springfield College, Tiny Bubbles, I'll Remember You, Pearly Shells
Nationality	American
Spouse	Haumea Hebenstreit, Melvamay Kolokea Wong, Tiny Bubbles, I'll Remember You, Pearly Shells
Children	Hoku, Kea Ho, Don Ho Jr., Kealii Ho, Dwight Ho, Kaimana Grace Ho, Dayna Ho Henry, Dondi Ho, Dori Ho, Donalei Ho, Tiny Bubbles, I'll Remember You, Pearly Shells
Parents	James Ah You Puao Ho, Emily Leimaile Silva, Tiny Bubbles, I'll Remember You, Pearly Shells
Movies	Joe's Apartment
TV Shows	The Don Ho Show