I have always loved music. It’s this strangely beautiful alien language of rhythm and tone. It’s a conversation between sound and silence. When I come across a piece I really love, I don’t just hear it with my ears. I hear it in my chest and in my bones and I can feel it brushing its fingertips across my skin.
And every now and then, I have the joy of stumbling across an artist who isn’t just an artist, but a magician as well. Jake Shimabukuro is a wizard. He’s devoted his life to playing an instrument that normally doesn’t rank on any music lover’s top ten list, the ukulele, and he casts a spell with it.
Listen as he plucks, strums, and slides his way into a recreation of the Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps
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Gods and Goddesses really exist!
Perhaps, but I think he’s a human being who devoted himself to making something beautiful.