Career
Sandbo had known she wanted to be an actress or singer since a young age. Her first year of high school at Saint Francis School in Mānoa, Oʻahu, she was cast as the lead in her school musical. She says,
After being called back for an audition in Waikīkī, Sandbo had sung her rendition of Whitney Houston"s "I Will Always Love You" (originally by Dolly Parton).
A few days later, she and two other girls were finalists in the auditions.
The second part of the auditions required the girls to sing and dance a Coconuts Musume song. Sandbo had shocked everyone when she chose to perform the Japanese version of Dance & Chance.
Sandbo was added into Coconuts Musume in February 2000 to join the three members, Ayaka Kimura, Mika Todd and Danielle Delaunay. Her first recording however was not with the group Coconuts Musume, but with the 2000 Hello! Project Shuffle Unit, Aoiro 7.
The first Coconuts Musume single to be released with Sandbo was "Tokonatsu Musume".
After that single, the group had released "Watashi mo "I Love You"", which was also fellow member Danielle Delaunay"s last single. After Delaunay"s graduation, the three member group only released one more single, "Jonetsu Yuki Miraisen", before Sandbo too was off to graduate. On February 17, 2002, Sandbo graduated from Coconuts Musume and Hello! Project at the end of the Hello! Project 2002 ~Kotoshi mo Sugoizo!~ concert tour.
Later, in 2008, she was crowned Mistress
Hawaii United States of America and will compete in the 2008 Mistress United States pageant, the only nationally televised beauty pageant for married women.
