Audience Q&A with Tia Carrere, Kealiʻi Ceballos and Daniel Ho, after premiere of Daniel Ho: Life As An Audition at The Valley Film Festival

From left to right: Kumu Keali’i Ceballos, Daniel Ho, Moderator DP Kronmiller, Anne Davis O’Neal and Tia Carrere at audience Q&A after screening.

Daniel Ho’s acceptance speech on receiving the 2025 Ki-ho’alu Legacy Award.

Actor/Singer Tia Carrere shares what she thought her career might be when she first started out in entertainment.

Pepe Romero, Sr. and Daniel Ho performing their Aloha España concert — Pepe shares his idea of what makes an instrument great.

George Kahumoku, Jr. and Daniel Ho rehearsing in a beauitful Hawaiian landscape - George shares his concept of pono.

Daniel Ho performing his composition “Aukahi” with The Daniel Ho Trio at the Museum of Making Music.

Daniel Ho

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 a 'ukulele virtuoso, slack key guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, singer-songwriter, producer, audio engineer, and record company owner. Daniel 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 Forgetting Sarah Marshall.