Jake Shimabukuro
Jake Shimabukuro (born November 3, 1976 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a ukulele virtuoso and composer 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 the Japanese remake of Sideways (2009).
Well known in Hawaii 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 legendary 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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ALBUMS
- Grand Ukulele released: 2012
- Peace Love Ukulele released: 2011
- The Music of Sideways released: 2009
- Live released: 2009
- My Life released: 2007
- Hula Girls released: 2007
- Gently Weeps released: 2006
- Dragon released: 2005
- Walking Down Rainhill released: 2004
- Crosscurrent released: 2003
- Sunday Morning released: 2002
- Skyline released: 2002
Live
Released 2009- Trapped
- Piano-Forte
- Bach Two-Part Invention No. 4 in D Minor
- Me & Shirley T.
- Spain
- Five Dollars Unleaded
- Let's Dance: Prelude
- Let's Dance
- Talk Story I "Michael Jackson On Ukulele?"
- Thriller
- Orange World
- Wes on Four
- Talk Story II "Thirteen-String Japanese Koto?"
- Sakura Sakura
- Dragon
- Yeah.
- Talk Story III "From Ukulele Disco To Youtube?"
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- 3rd Stream
- Blue Roses Gently Falling
Hula Girls
Released 2007- On The Road
- Walking Down Rainhill
- The Dance
- Touch (alternate take)
- Hawaiian Eyes by Na Leo
- Opening Day
- Hula Girl (feat. Jennifer Perri)
- Heartbeat (movie version)
- Heartbeat (reprise)
- Touch
- Hula Girl (acoustic version)
- Local Boys by Na Leo
- Walking Down Rainhill (alternate take)
- Wish On My Star (feat. Jennifer Perri)
- Graduation
- Hula Girl (feat. Miho Teruya)
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by: Jake ShimabukuroWish on My Star lyrics
I wouldn't change a thing about you
I wouldn't ask the green to be blue
I wouldn't ask the birds not to fly
Or change a thing in the sky
Or turn hello to goodbye
I wouldn't ask the birds not to sing
I wouldn't ask the phone not to ring
I just couldn't ask the wind not to blow
Or a boat not to row
Or a trio to go solo
You are amazing, just as you are.
You are a flower in the spring
And a light each morning brings
And I adore you
Just as you are
You're my first star that I wish on
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