Don’t underestimate the ukulele. It may be small, but musician Jake Shimabukuro (@JakeShimabukuro) proves that you don’t need more than four strings to make great music happen. Shimabukuro is a ...

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Every time someone refers to Jake Shimabukuro as “the Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele,” he just shakes his head and says, “No, no, no.” But to listen to Shimabukuro talk about his passion for playing the ...

Ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro plays big music — “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen, Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” — on a small instrument. He shows that the ukulele, in the right hands, has the dynamic ...

In Hawaii the ukulele is neither a novelty nor a punch line. It is what it is – the humble, four-string, two-octave bantamweight of the guitar family. Yet the diminutive instrument, whose name, in ...

-- shee-ma-BOO-koo-roh: How you pronounce Jake Shimabukuro's last name. -- yoo-kuh-LAY-le: How you pronounce Jake Shimabukuro's instrument of choice, the ukulele. -- 4: How old Jake was when he ...