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Jake Shimabukuro

Hawaiian ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro was born in Honolulu on November 3, 1976. He learned to play the instrument from an early age with his mother, and never left it, playing in cafés until 1998, when he met the members of Pure Heart, with whom he recorded two albums and won five Na Hoku Hanohano Awards. He then followed Lopaka Colón and produced an album under the Colón name, before embarking on his own successful career. The first Hawaiian artist signed by Epic Records, a division of Sony Music, he also became popular in Japan with a series of albums in which he displayed...