JAKE SHIMABUKURO
Pop/Art Song/Folk • United States
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Jake Shimabukuro can still vividly remember the first time he held a ukulele, at age four. It was an encounter that would shape his destiny and give the world one of the most exceptional and innovative uke players in the history of the instrument—an artist who has drawn comparisons to musical titans such as Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis.
“My mom played, and I kept bugging her to teach me,” he recalls. “So one day we sat down on the floor and she put her old Kamaka ukulele in my hands. I remember being so nervous. Then she showed me how to strum the strings and taught me my first chord. I fell in love with the ukulele immediately. From that day on, you had to pry the instrument away from me in order to get me to do anything else.”
That first brush with musical fate took place in Honolulu, Hawai’i,
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Dragon
Pop/Art Song/Folk
2005
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Travels
Pop/Art Song/Folk
2015
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My Life
Pop/Art Song/Folk
2007
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Live
Pop/Art Song/Folk
2009
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