Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Local On 2 first heard his tracks, we thought we were grooving to a guitar. Our jaws dropped when we realized that Jake ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the past two decades, Jake Shimabukuro has proved that there isn't a style of music that he can't play on his ukulele. Since ...

Jake Shimabukuro grew up with the ukulele. The diminutive four-stringed acoustic instrument is part of his native Hawaiian culture, designated as one of the state’s official musical instruments. When ...

Years ago, an interviewer asked ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro whether there was any song he couldn’t play. “If you can hum it, you can play it on the ukulele,“ Shimabukuro said. The interviewer ...

An aura of inherent boyishness infuses ukulele star Jake Shimabukuro. He has the gee-whiz adventurousness of an extreme skateboarder, game to go for the impossible, coupled with a disarming humility ...

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Musician Jake Shimabukuro is probably the most famous ukulele player in the world. His fingers dash like sprinters, his hands strum like torrential winds, and his music emanates from the instrument ...

This is . Opening up sounds and harmonies and taking an unexpected direction, that is a key element to the complex music made by you go your true so Jake. He is taking a simple instrument in new and ...

Jake Shimabukuro started playing ukulele at the age of 4 and soon fell in love with the instrument. As he tells Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson, "My parents would have to take the ukulele away from me so ...

Jake Shimabukuro and blues-rocker Jesse Colin Young ­recorded “Get Together” for the new album. “He comes to (music) in a very childlike way, and you hear him discovering it,” Young said of ...