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Jake Shimabukuro
United States • b. 1976-11-03
Jake Shimabukuro is credited on 151 releases across 36 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1998–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
151
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36
Albums
4
Decades active
15
In collections
Biography
Jake Shimabukuro (born November 3, 1976) is an American ukulele player and composer from Hawaii known for his fast and complex finger work. His music combines elements of jazz, blues, funk, rock, bluegrass, classical, folk, and flamenco. Shimabukuro has written numerous original compositions, including the entire soundtracks to two Japanese films, Hula Girls (2007) and Sideways (2009), the Japanese remake of the American film of the same name. Well known in Hawai’i and Japan during his early solo career in the early 2000s, Shimabukuro became famous internationally in 2006, when a video of him playing a virtuosic rendition of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was posted on YouTube without his knowledge and became one of the first viral videos on that site. His concert engagements, collaborations with well-known musicians, media appearances, and music production have snowballed since then. In 2012, an award-winning documentary was released tracking his life, career, and music, titled Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings; it has screened in a variety of festivals, aired repeatedly on PBS, and been released on DVD.
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Credited work
151 releases · 36 albums · active 1998–2026
- Performance · 153
- Other credits · 120
- Production · 13
Studios: ParSonics (2) · Hybrid Studios (3) · Eagle Wind Sound · Capitol Studios
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