Whatever happened to Hoku?

She released a EP called "Listen Up" last year, and opened for Gwen Stefani in Hawaii. Check out her new music: http://www.myspace.com/hoku

I remember every1 was singing "Another dumb blonde" as the credits rolled in theatres! :)

She's still around, though no longer doing anything major. A short while after recording "Another Dumb Blonde" she left her contract because she didn't like the image the record company was trying to shape her in. i think it had something to do with them making her appear more white, and something against her beliefs.

Passengers will refrain from killing my soul! ~Bus Driver Stu Benedict

It's funny I saw this topic. Today I read on this girl's blog who writes about random things said that Hoku got married, and does some music on the side, like just real small time stuff in her hometown of Hawaii.

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/singer-hoku-reveals-why-she-left-the-music-industry.3376042/

https://www.hokumusic.com/

The bio on your website says that you walked away from your pop career "when the demands of a pre-#MeToo music industry became more than you were willing to reckon with." Was that also happening while they were panicking over the arrival of Napster?

Oh yes. All the stories you're hearing now about the things that male executives were getting away with [at that time] are not exaggerated. In fact, they're probably on the smaller end of the scale. It was post-”Baby One More Time.” I remember how shocking that was, the imagery... All of us pop people that were signed on [after that video] were meant to follow that mold. And that's not something that's communicated to you as a young person when you're signing that contract. So it was like, “Now that you're in this contract, and we control the success of your music, here are the things that you need to do in order to fulfill that contract.”

One of my label executives was basically like, “You know how all those girls get their song No. 1 at the radio stations?” And I was like, “Well, how?” And he was like, “Well, you know, they'd go under the table and they do what they have to do for their people.” And I was like, “What?” And he was like, “If you think that those girls haven't done it, you're wrong. So if it comes up, you know what you need to do.”