Jake Shimabukuro

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Jake Shimabukuro is a virtuoso American ukulele player and composer known for his innovative, genre-blending style and viral interpretations of popular songs.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf composer
musician
person
ukulele player
activeYearsStart 1990s
associatedAct Colon
Pure Heart
birthDate 1976-11-03
birthPlace Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
ethnicOrigin Japanese Americans
surface form: Japanese American
familyName Shimabukuro
genre classical
contemporary instrumental
folk
jazz
rock
world music
givenName Jake
hasDocumentaryAbout Jake Shimabukuro self-linksurface differs
surface form: Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings
hasRelative Bruce Shimabukuro
Kimo Shimabukuro
hasWebsite https://jakeshimabukuro.com
instrument ukulele
isKnownFor genre-blending arrangements
solo ukulele performances
viral rendition of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
virtuosic ukulele technique
languageSpoken English
name Jake Shimabukuro self-link
nationality American
notablePerformance Central Park, New York viral video performance of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
notableWork Dragon (album)
Gently Weeps (album)
Grand Ukulele (album)
Jake & Friends (album)
Live (album)
Nashville Sessions (album)
Peace Love Ukulele (album)
Trio (album)
Walking Down Rainhill (album)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
surface form: While My Guitar Gently Weeps (ukulele arrangement)
occupation composer
recording artist
ukulele player
placeOfOrigin Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
surface form: Honolulu, Hawaii
recordLabel Hitchhike Records
Mailboat Records
Sony Music Entertainment Japan
surface form: Sony Music Japan
residence Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
surface form: Honolulu, Hawaii

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Jake Shimabukuro
Description of subject: Jake Shimabukuro is a virtuoso American ukulele player and composer known for his innovative, genre-blending style and viral interpretations of popular songs.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

"Songs of Joy & Peace" album hasGuestArtist Jake Shimabukuro
subject surface form: Songs of Joy & Peace
Jake Shimabukuro name Jake Shimabukuro self-link
Jake Shimabukuro hasDocumentaryAbout Jake Shimabukuro self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings