Ukulele sensation Jake Shimabukuro usually gets at least one backhanded compliment after one of his performances. The person who gives it is typically someone who's been dragged to one of his concerts - and emerges as a converted fan.
The "Around the World" feature on Jake Shimabukuro on AOL Spinner, includes a live clip of "Bohemian Rhapsody," and a stream of "Boy Meets Girl." The piece also says that Jake has "revolutionized the ukulele...with virtuoso technique and imagination far beyond anything that could have been conceived before."
This Christmas will be a particularly special one for Jake Shimabukuro; it will be notable not for some grand concert nor far-flung world tour, but for a humbly simple reason: He’ll get to spend it at home.
Life is good for ukulele phenom Jake Shimabukuro. He’s just finished another successful tour, playing Hong Kong for the first time, and he has a new CD coming out. And he’s getting married in the spring. Shimabukuro is back in the islands for about six weeks, which for him is some kind of record. He usually spends about nine months of the year on tour, rarely coming back for more than a couple weeks at a time.
This Christmas will be a particularly special one for Jake Shimabukuro; it will be notable not for some grand concert nor far-flung world tour, but for a humbly simple reason: He’ll get to spend it at home.
Life is good for ukulele phenom Jake Shimabukuro. He’s just finished another successful tour, playing Hong Kong for the first time, and he has a new CD coming out. And he’s getting married in the spring.
Like a lot of people, we discovered ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro through his six-million-views-and-counting YouTube cover of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
Like a lot of people, we discovered ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro through his six-million-views-and-counting YouTube cover of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
What’s better then a glass of Shiraz, Truffle Oil Popcorn and Jake Shimabukuro? Depends on your cup o’ tea but I’m almost certain the three go hand in hand (in hand?).
The ukulele isn’t the most respected instrument around: Some describe it as the guitar’s younger sibling you tolerate when it’s around. However, the ukulele has a rich cultural history, and one that extends to Chicago.
Ukulele players were bummed the day NPR ran a piece last summer about the growing popularity of the four-stringed Hawaiian instrument. How dare All Things Considered strip away the uke's hip, underground mystique and burst their tiny bubbles?
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. -- Today, ukulele player and composer Jake Shimabukuro joined us to talk about his upcoming album, Peace Love Ukulele (set for release in Jan. 2011), and to preview his show this week at the Cedar Cultural Center.
CHICAGO-- Treasure the Ukulele. In the hands of Jake Shimabukuro, the ukulele is king.
Under his fedora, trim and handsome Jake Shimabukuro looks like the hippest of hipsters. But he's more than that. The 33-year-old solo artist is a virtuoso -- on the ukulele.
Shimabukuro, who turns 34 on Nov. 3, is engaged. He's planning a May wedding to Kelly Yamasato, an OB/GYN at the Queens Medical Center in Oahu, Hawaii.
