Lisha Kim:
CLASS OF 1967
Farrington High SchoolClass of 1967
Honolulu, HI
Lisha's Story
Lisha is from Honolulu, Hawaii. Lisha's schools include Farrington High School. Lisha later attended Kapiolani Community College. Lisha works(ed) at Peacock Emporium.
Music Lisha likes includes Petula Clark, Henry Mancini, Ice Cube. Books Lisha likes include Bible, The Land of the Painted Caves, The Plains of Passage. Movies Lisha likes include Happy Feet, Team Twilight, Forrest Gump. TV shows Lisha likes include Leverage, Turner Classic Movies: TCM, White Collar.
One of Lisha's favorite quotes is:""Kiss my grits"".
More about Lisha:"I was born around the time the Korean war was full blown, and ported to America in 1954 by my dad who took the family to Oakland California, where we lived with my adopted relatives. We eventually moved with my family to San Bernardino, California. I was named Hia Harding. I left San Bernardino in 1962, where attended Farrington High School in Kalihi. My father legally changed my name to carry his middle name. Frances. I left for Hawaii, the first time. I then learned hula and Tahiatian dancing, and later went on the road with a Hawaiian show known as the "Ernie Menehune Show". I sang and danced hula from the Los Angeles area, to Alberque to Denver, to Las Vegas, finishing in the Nevada circuit. I can't exactly remember how I got my own show, but I ended up in a Hawaiian Review in Reno, still singing and dancing hula, and a little Tahitian. It's amazing how I never had any photos taken of me during those years. I was always alone.
I then ended up working at a club across from the ever famous Chinese Graumans Theater, in a great supper club called the Seven Seas. What a great place that was, with the "raining bar". I made a few friends and married a young man who frequented the place named John Lowy.
After marrying, we moved to back to Hawaii to help run my mother's bar called the South Pacific, which was located next to the Kalihi Bowling alley, where we stayed for a few years. I divorced my husband after having a son, then remarried again, and again, and again and still again.! Whew!
In between my marriages, I had singing gigs all over Honolulu including the Holiday Inn, Hyatt, Hale Koa with a lot of guest a...Expand for more
ppearances with Jimmy Borges, Del Courtney, Gabe Baltizar, and Don Ho.
In 1986, I then opened up a night club and fine dining restaurant on South King Street called "The High Note", where I had the privilege to showcase my piano bar with Hawaii's well know song writer, pianist Bob Nelson.
I was also honored to house some of our local entertainers like "3 Scoops Aloha", "Kapena", and a host of the best Hawaii had! Brickwood Galeteria was a great asset to my place also.
I enjoyed seeing Don Ho each time he visited the club, and Stan Morgan from the old original Ink spots was one of our guest singers. It was a hot place to be. I'm sorry we lost both of these wonderful people. I'm sure God is pleased with them.
After all that, I did a trade show called "International Fair Hawaii". It was a fund raiser for the children of Hawaii, and all the "Big Guns" of show business came out to support them.
I then promoted and raised funds for "Friends of Jazz", and that was an absolute blast! I did it twice, and every big Jazz star contributed their time and talents in an effort to preserve the art of jazz. What a group of wonderful and loving characters.
I've been very fortunate in my life, from a girl who almost didn't live, almost literally couldn't see, and almost didn't survive many illnesses. I am presently dealing with Lupus (DSL), and it gets rough a lot of times. I still thank God I was able to be who I was, and who I am today.
I married a man I least expected to marry, we've been together now for over 21 years, and it seems we have both been a match in heaven. We just didn't know it until now.l
I do have to tell you that my first real love was a boy in San Bernardino, California name Jesse Ledesma, who had his own band. Isn't it funny how fate is. He and I couldn't be together at all because my father lied about many things, including beomg sexually abused by him. Jesse believed him and not me, so I ran away from home.
Now that I look back, was I really there? I feel so old today at 63 years. But my heart still has music and I still sing here and there.
God bless you all and I will remember always, my friends in Hawaii.
Lisha Kim".
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