When we saw our next guest performing
a mashup of '90s songs to 24 Carat Magic by Bruno Mars,
we knew we wanted here on the show, from Oahu,
Hawaii, please welcome, The Tonga Sisters.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
(SINGING) Tonight I just want to take you higher.
Throw your hands up in the sky.
Let's set this party off right.
Real love I'm searching for a real love.
Someone to set my heart free.
Real love.
Don't walk away, boy.
Don't walk away.
I'll be right back for you.
Candy girl, you are my world.
You look so sweet.
You're a special treat.
Candy girl, all I want to say is I need
your love each and every day.
My love, do you ever dream of candy coated raindrops.
You're the same, my candy rain.
This is how we do it.
Cause Ellen does it like nobody does.
This is how we do it.
Let's flip the chart from the old school back.
24 carat magic magic.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[EXCITED SCREAMS]
Hi.
Oh, my gosh.
Hi.
Oh, thank you.
[CHEERS]
Thank you.
All right.
OK, who hugged me so hard that we knocked the water over?
I'm sorry, I did.
All right.
That's an enormous amount of hug.
Thank you so much.
OK, so you've been singing together,
you're sisters, and who's the youngest who's the oldest?
I'm the oldest.
OK
I'm the youngest.
Youngest.
And when did you start singing together?
We started singing in church when I was four.
I was five.
And I was six.
I'm sorry we're all out of breath. we're so out of shape.
[LAUGHTER]
Well, it's pretty far away from over there, so.
And why '90s songs?
Why?
My dad, he started playing that kind of music in the car.
So ever since we were younger that's the only kind of music
we would listen to.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
And you just harmonize all the time?
Yeah, so when we were cleaning around the house
or if we were just laying around,
I'll start singing a note, and then all my sisters
will come in and harmonize.
So you're going to show us.
So you'll just hit a note and show us, sort of, what happens.
(SINGING) Da-dup.
Da-dup.
Da- aah- aah- da- da.
Da- da- da- da.
Yeah, that's it.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
That's amazing.
Do that again, I'm going to join in.
Really?
Yeah.
Really?
OK.
(SINGING) Da-dup.
Da-dup.
Da- aah- aah- da- da.
[LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE]
Oh, my gosh.
Ah, well.
I should've done that.
All right, so what do you all want to do?
And I'm kind of shocked.
I don't know exactly what you want to do,
but I heard that it's not anything to do with singing.
You actually want to do different things.
What do you want to do?
I actually want to go to UCLA and I want to become a dentist.
A dentist?
I actually want to go study at the University of Utah
or Stanford to become a doctor.
Wow.
OK.
So my dream school has always been Stanford University,
and I enjoy math a lot.
So I'm still looking at what career I want to pursue.
As of right now I want to be a statistician.
And she's so smart.
She's so good at math.
Math is her area.
Wow.
OK, then what would you like to do?
We sort of have the same dream because we're the younger ones,
so we share a lot of the same passions.
So I would also want to go to the University of Utah
to the medical school to study to become either a pediatrician
or a sports medicine physician.
OK, and what would you like to do?
I want to be an NFL player.
No, I'm just kidding.
[LAUGHTER]
I would like to--
Well, you'd be a good tackle.
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, I want to be a FBI agent, like study something in, like,
forensics.
Because I watch a lot of Criminal Minds,
so I think I'm pretty, you know.
Yeah.
But I just want to give a shout out to my mom
because she's the reason why we have these ambitions
and these goals.
And it's not for the singing and--
sorry, I'm-- we're so emotional because of her.
But it's because she's instilled within us the desire
to want to have a career and a steady job
and be independent, and just do really well for ourselves.
Because she came from Tonga, that's our last name,
and right now they got hit by the cyclone Gita.
So we want to say shout out to Mama,
she's the one who started our harmonizing and everything.
But thank you to our mom for just putting that within us.
Yeah.
Thank you, Mom.
[APPLAUSE]
Well, whatever you end up doing, I
hope while you're taking care of people's teeth
you could sing to them while you're cleaning their teeth.
Because that would be awesome if you just
started singing while you were a dentist,
and like being a singing doctor or a singing statistician,
a singing forensic whatever you're doing.
(SINGING) Gonna find you.
That's right.
You find the song to match what it is.
All right, well we know that you want to go to college.
And Shutterfly heard your story, and they want to help.
So each of you are getting a check
for $10,000 from Shutterfly.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]