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Ho, Don

Singer

Don Ho has been a fixture in Hawaii since the 1960s, when he first started crooning from his mother's bar in Kaneohe, a small town on the island of Oahu. He is so identified with his home state of Hawaii that, for many, the mere mention of his name instantly conjures up hula dancers swaying to melodic tunes, a soft ocean breeze, and deep blue surf. Throughout his 44-year career, Ho has managed to parlay his career into an enterprise in which his name has achieved brand identity. Now in his mid-70s, he continues to draw large crowds to his show at the Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel, as well as to make appearances at Don Ho's Island Grill on Honolulu's waterfront, reveling in his niche as the ultimate entertainer.

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. Ho has a mixed ethnic heritage, claiming Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, and German descent. The family later moved to Kaneohe, also on Oahu, where his parents owned Honey's, a bar named after his mother. During the

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A Sweet Life

Many claim they are leaving a legacy, yet Henry Kapono Ka‘aihue lives his every day, instilling pure aloha into everything he does. In his alleged “Golden Years,” when most are retired or slowing down, this remarkable music man has no intention of doing any of that any time soon.
“I get to pick up my guitar and play every day — play for people and I stay happy,” says the Grammy-nominated Hawai‘i singer/songwriter. “I think retirement sometimes takes the ‘oomph’ out of life. What now, unless, you have a solid Plan B? I love staying in Plan A. It’s working.”

“Retirement” is not in his vocabulary and he doesn’t believe any artist should stop creating. “Every day is exciting to figure out who you are and what you are doing, and how you can be even better.”

The 74-year-old is happy, healthy and grateful for his “Sweet Life,” as his new song by the same name professes. He has no desire to pump the brakes on performing, and Henry will always be about sharing the stage with good friends, making music and giving back to the community, culture and the arts

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Transcript of conversation with Led Kaapana

Transcript of conversation with Led Kaampana

Led Kaapana: See, in Kalapana we never had any electricity. Yea, everything was run by kerosene. The first I had guitar I had was run by kerosene.

Jo Reed: That was slack key guitarist and 2011 National Hertiage Fellow, Ledward Kaapana. Welcome to Art Works, the program that goes behind the scenes with some of the nation's great artists to explore how art works, I'm your host Jospehine Reed.

To call Led Kaapana a master of the slack key guitar doesn't begin to do him justice: he's also an extraordinary ukulele player and one terrific singer with a voice that somehow encompasses a soaring baritone and a yearning falsetto. Little wonder that he's been a celebrated performer for over forty years entertaining audiences in Hawaii, on the mainland and around the world. He's not exactly a slacker in the recording department either; he has 31 cds to his name and performed on almost 40 others. Although Led Kaapana has dedicated himself to perpetuating the traditional style and musical repert