She is best known for her 2000 single "Another Dumb Blonde", from the soundtrack and film Snow Day, which peaked at number 27 on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as the single "Perfect Day", which appeared on the soundtrack of the hit comedy film Legally Blonde and was added to Contemporary hit radio in June 2001.
[8] Hoku's debut single, "Another Dumb Blonde" (the theme song to the 2000 film Snow Day),[8] was released on January 18, 2000.
[12][13] Hoku had planned to work on a second album for Interscope after the March 2001 release of her single "Perfect Day" to radio, a track which appeared on the soundtrack of the hit comedy film Legally Blonde, and served as the film's theme song and was officially added to Contemporary hit radio in June 2001.
[14] Struggling to find a niche in the pop music industry, she left the label, disagreeing with them regarding her image and marketing, which she felt clashed with her Pentecostal Christian upbringing.
[15] She opened for Gwen Stefani's Neal S. Blaisdell Center shows of The Sweet Escape Tour later that month.
"[22] Erlewine also noted that her young-sounding voice made it appropriate that her music was "targeted toward middle-school daydreams and junior-high dances".
The couple eloped "for personal reasons", according to Hoku,[14] later saying that she was scared to tell her father because of his harsh attitude towards boys she previously dated and how young she was at the time.
[1] Hoku and her husband Jeremy have three children and served as Arts and Worship Architects at Branches Church in Dana Point, California from 2010-2019.