Ho was originally signed to Reprise Records. 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. In 1963, he moved the Kāneʻohe Honey's to Waikīkī. Ho always honored the military remembering his own years of military service. Honey's became a hotspot for the local entertainment and the growing customers from the Kaneohe Marine Base servicemen. Ho left the United States Air Force in 1959 due to his mother's developing illness and began singing at her club in Kaneohe. While in the military, Ho traveled from state to state with his young family until he was called home to help his mother with the family bar business called Honey's. They were married for 48 years, until Melva's death on June 8, 1999.
She was the mother to his first six children. Transferred to Travis Air Force Base, California, he went to the local city of Concord and bought an electronic keyboard from a music store, and recalls, "That's when it all started."ĭon married his high school sweetheart, Melva May Kolokea Wong, on November 22, 1951. In 1954, Ho entered the United States Air Force doing his primary training at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi and spent time flying C-97s with the Military Air Transport Service. He was a graduate of the Kamehameha Schools in 1949 and he attended Springfield College on a football scholarship in 1950, but returned home to earn a Bachelor's degree in sociology at University of Hawaiʻi in 1953.
He was born in the small Honolulu neighborhood of Kakaʻako to Emily (Honey) Leimaile Silva and James Ah You Puao Ho, but he grew up in Kāneʻohe on the windward side of the island of Oʻahu. Ho was a singer of Native Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, and German descent. He is best known for the song " Tiny Bubbles" from the album of the same name.
Donald Tai Loy Ho (Aug– April 14, 2007) was a Hawaiian traditional pop musician, singer and entertainer.
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