![]() ![]() “I didn’t even know what YouTube was at the time, so I was totally surprised when people started telling me they’d seen a video of me playing ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps,’” he says. In 2005, Shimabukuro’s touring career really came to life with a video on YouTube. Even athletes helped fuel the intensity of his artistic fire. As he matured, Shimabukuro also found inspiration from guitar players, drummers, pianists, and singers. As a youngster growing up in Honolulu, Hawaii, Shimabukuro started playing the instrument at the age of four, learning the basics from his mother, Carol, and then developing his craft further by studying the likes of musical masters such as Eddie Kamae, Ohta-San and Peter Moon. Shimabukuro’s wholly unique approach to the ukulele started early. But at the age of 14, Jake Shimabukuro realized that he was doing something a little different with the four-stringed instrument – OK, a lot different. Almost everyone in Hawaii has strummed a ukulele at one time or another. ![]()
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