Daniel Ho
One of the Most
Prolific
and
Successful
Musicians
Hawaii
Has ever
Produced
~ Ukulele Magazine
~ Ukulele Magazine
Daniel’s collab with Eddy Kenzo, one of Africa’s biggest musical sensations: 2+M YouTube & 1+M Instagram.
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Presenting Live On Tour, an album featuring Slack Key Master George Kahumoku, Jr., actress and vocalist Tia Carrere, and Daniel Ho: multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and artist-producer.
All three were born and raised in Hawaii.
All three have been recognized with multiple Grammys®.
Each one has a long and successful history in music,
but this is their first live album together.
In Live On Tour, they share with you a blend of pleasing Island classics, Hawaiian hymns, and stories and originals inspired by a love for the land they’ll always call home.
Daniel’s first ever LIVE album
a career retrospective
An Official Nominee in the 64th GRAMMY® Awards, for Best Global Music Album. Daniel’s first ever LIVE album, recorded (and also filmed) during his 30th year as a professional musician, and in the historic conditions of the first year of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Also available on iTunes
Daniel Ho beams with music—you’ll find him enveloped in the next melody for an original composition or tapping out a rhythm on just about anything within reach. He is an ‘ukulele virtuoso, slack key guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, singer-songwriter, producer, audio engineer, and record company owner. He is a six-time Grammy Award winner, twelve-time Grammy Award nominee, six-time Taiwanese Golden Melody Award winner, and recipient of multiple Hawaiian Music awards.
His collaborations transcend genres – from traditional and contemporary Hawaiian Music to World Music with Taiwanese aboriginals and Mongolian nomads, to duets with Pepe Romero the maestro of classical guitar, to contemporary jazz and rock with Tak Matsumoto of the Japanese supergroup, B’z. Daniel’s music has been featured in film and television in projects such as The Descendants, Soul Surfer, the TV series Hawaiʻi Five-O, and NHK (Japan). A notable mention is his performance of a Hawaiian-language rendition of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” for the end credits of the 2008 movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Always looking to inspire and share, Daniel performs concerts and teaches workshops throughout the US and internationally. As an American Cultural Ambassador, he has toured Japan, Australia, Brunei, and Thailand. He is the co-designer of the Romero Creations Tiny Tenor ‘ukulele, the Ohana Bongolele and Shakerlele line of percussion instruments, and his ‘ukulele is currently on display at the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles. A new skill picked up during the pandemic: music video production! Daniel has been channeling creativity into filming and editing music videos that add a new and energetic dimension to his repertoire.