Jake Shimabukuro

Jake Shimabukuro hasn’t stopped playing the ukulele since his mother taught him to strum at age four. In 2006, Shimabukuro was one of the first people to go “viral” on the newly created platform YouTube, when a video of him playing “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” in Central Park was posted to the site without his knowledge. From covers to original tunes like “When the Masks Come Down,” Shimabukuro modernizes the Hawaiian instrument in fresh and unexpected ways.