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Don Ho, who has died at 76, was a Hawaiian crooner famous for his rendering of Tiny Bubbles.
For some 40 years, Ho entertained tourists in Hawaii, performing his repertoire of songs, telling jokes and offering vignettes of Hawaiian history.
Of Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and German extraction, Ho was born in 1930 in Honolulu, joining the US Air Force in 1954 as a pilot.
In 1960, he took over his parents' bar, assembled a band and started performing.
His popularity started to grow on the American mainland from 1966 where he had several popular songs and appeared in TV shows such as Charlie's Angels.
- Agencies