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 ...

Jake Shimabukuro captured the world's attention with his original take on George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” a viral video that dominated YouTube in 2005. The Hawaiian-born ukulele ...

Shimabukuro has recently joined the roster of MasterClass, the online learning platform, where he will be sharing a lifetime of uke experience. “I downloaded MasterClass because I was interested in ...

Though many still have trouble pronouncing his last name and the instrument he plays, Jake Shimabukuro (she-ma-BOO-koo-row) is becoming recognized as one of the world's top ukulele (oo-koo-LAY-lay) ...

After gaining viral fame in 2007 with his smoldering rendition of The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," Jake Shimabukuro has become the greatest representative for the virtuosic and spiritual ...

Perhaps no single instrument is as closely associated with one place as the ukulele is with Hawaii. While it might seem like a caricature to so closely tie it to the Hawaiian people, Jake Shimabukuro ...

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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 ...