Daniel Ho
is a musician (guitar, 'ukulele, piano), song writer and Grammy award-winning producer currently specializing in Hawaiian music.
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Biography
Early life
Born in
Kaimuki on
Oahu, he attended the
Grove School of Music in
Los Angeles, where he studied
composition before returning home to attend the
University of Hawaii.
[1] After graduation, Daniel returned to Los Angeles and formed a critically-acclaimed
smooth jazz group named Kilauea.
[2]
In the late 90s, Daniel started his own record company, and recorded one of his first Hawaiian music albums with
slack-key guitarist
George Kahumoku, Jr..
[3] He has since recorded 18 solo albums, produced over 50 albums, served as a guest lecturer at
Stanford University, performed as a soloist with the
Honolulu Symphony, and received three of the first four Grammy Awards for
best Hawaiian music album as a producer.
He won a fourth Grammy Award for
best Hawaiian music album in 2009, his first as an artist rather than as the producer of a compilation album, teaming up with
Tia Carrere for the album
Ikena.
In
2008 he appeared in and recorded several tracks for the film
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
, under the pseudonym The Coconutz. He sang on two tracks that are remakes of 20th century pop hits, translated into Hawaiian. They are "
Nothing Compares 2 U", and "
Everybody Hurts".