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Jake Shimabukuro: Taking the Serious Ukulele
Jake Shimabukuro is an American musician, best known for his skills playing the ukulele. He was in various bands, has won several awards for his music, he composed music for film soundtracks and has become something of a sensation on the Internet at the same time. One of his most famous videos is giving him a ukulele version of the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." The performance is on par with any rock guitar hero, and generally above that level of proficiency. Shimabukuro was performed with some of the greatest musicians in the entertainment industry.
Jake Shimabukuro began playing the ukulele since very early in life. He decided it was his instrument at the beginning and participated in various bands before becoming an artist known as an individual. His first recording the band's pure heart, he recorded three albums. The band later, Colon, released an album before he struck Shimabukuro out on their own. Pure Heart won a total of four Na Hoku Hanohano awards. Na Hoku Hanohano Award are given awards in Hawaii and the island state itself music. Shimabukuro and his designs have been nominated for several other awards as well, and he is a musician well known in the islands.
Jake Shimabukuro is one of several musicians who led the ukulele being taken more seriously as an instrument. Shimabukuro himself is a virtuoso artist, by anyone's measure. Your finger is exceptionally complex, and its consistent tone. The kind of music that he and other serious ukulele players, listeners generally create exhibits for the first time to a wide range of sounds produced by an instrument that they probably thought of as a novelty before seeing it played seriously. While her rendition of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" He gained much fame, his own music shows the influence of a diverse range of other styles of rock.
Jake Shimabukuro can be heard playing in the film Hula Girls. He wrote and sang the song for the movie. He also appeared with such artists as Bette Midler and toured extensively on their own. There are numerous videos this artist available, detailing his collaborations with different musicians, as well as original material. He is also known for creating deliveries ukulele popular music and has in the past, artists have covered such as David Bowie and many more. He continues to record and tour at present.
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Fingerpicking Beatles (Catalog #699404)) $7.87 Arranged by Fred Sokolow 20 favorites, including: And I Love Her* Eleanor Rigby* Here Comes The Sun* Here, There And Everywhere* Hey Jude* Michelle* Norwegian Wood* While My Guitar Gently Weeps* Yesterday* and more.... |
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Gently Weeps $11.14 You'll forget all the Tiny Tim, Don Ho, and Hawaiian-music jokes about the ukulele when you hear Gently Weeps, which leaves behind the Roaring Twenties strum and plinky-dink sound of most such music. Jake Shimabukuro sets the tone with the lead-off track from which he takes the album's title, George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," unfolding the vulnerable undertow of Harrison's epic lam... |
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Live $11.13 Ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro has taken the four-string, two-octave instrument to places no one has gone before, performing awesome music that ranges from Jazz, Blues and Rock to Bluegrass, Classical and Folk. His live concerts are an out-of-the-box blend of stunning virtuosity, deep musicality and a natural entertainer's flair. Jake now has his own record label, and tours extensively in the U.S... |