Warren Buffett plays ukulele When the billionaire isn't reading, he enjoys playing the ukulele.
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I'm going to be sitting there with a ukulele, an ironic ukulele, and be doing it.
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Say "Alexa, ask Ukulele Tuner to start tuning" (once you've installed the Ukulele Tuner skill of course).
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Well there's actually a value of someone wants to learn how to play the ukulele, but the computer doesn't know that, it's just recommending more ukulele videos.
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So when you were giving the ukulele example you talked about well maybe you should go see friends who play ukulele, you should go visit them offline.
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But if it really knew that about you instead of just saying, here's like infinite more ukulele videos to watch, it might say and here's your 10 friends who know how to play ukulele that you didn't know know how to play ukulele and you can go hang out with them.
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" She later clarified that "no ukulele was played, sadly.
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Populele: The World's First Smart Ukulele — $179 See Details
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A wild new startup is about to unleash Populele, an electric Ukulele that will teach you how to play old Uke standards like Ukulele Lady, D'yer Maker, and Tiptoe Through The Tulips.
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And in between speaking engagements — while she is idling in hotels or awaiting delayed flights — she is teaching herself to play the ukulele, strumming under the tutelage of YouTube videos and ukulele apps.
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One corner had comfy chairs with guitars and a ukulele.
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On the ukulele #richarddormer, and choir Mr. #rorymccann and myself!
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I play the ukulele and listen to lots of music.
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He loved to play his guitar and ukulele for us.
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Spam Jammers were entertained by hula dancers and ukulele music.
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One thing about ukulele comedy is that shorter is better.
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Any manic pixie dream girl can bust out a sweet indie song on the ukulele, but this course actually teaches you the music theory behind the ukulele so you can compose your own tunes.
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Arthur sang, accompanying himself on a ukulele camouflaged as a lute.
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But did you know she also plays in a ukulele trio?
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If you decide to pick up a ukulele hobby, we'll understand.
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" A: "I'd steal Maya's clothes, Josie's voice, Vic's ukulele and piano skills.
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His eldest daughter sat in the back room, quietly strumming a ukulele.
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No words, he just played ukulele and [went] off like a boss.
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Naturally, she also invited Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her ukulele along, too.
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What's going on in that moment when it recommends other ukulele videos?
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The Populele by Popuband is a $159 ukulele with a plastic fretboard.
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A teenager played his ukulele to kids to get them to sleep.
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And when Ryan Gosling whipped out his ukulele, she was done for.
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My grandfather taught me to play the ukulele when I was 5.
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Cyril began playing ukulele at 21980 and slack-key guitar at 22007.
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He has the ukulele that Jo bought him for Christmas last year.
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When was the last time you wrote a song on your ukulele?
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It was like, okay, put down the ukulele and pick up a guitar!
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She plays ukulele, hangs out with her little brother, and does goofy skits.
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I got my ukulele and am going to play something for you guys.
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In a living room across the park, Chast is playing a turquoise ukulele.
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I bring a small campfire-size one, like a ukulele, on the road.
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There's some sweet stuff in there too, of course (the ukulele cute of "Grapes").
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The performance featured one ukulele, a Taylor Swift hit and a memorable dance party.
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And if Warren Buffett can make time to play the ukulele, you can too.
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What was Mingy Jongo became Project Ukulele, which in turn transformed into Yooka-Laylee.
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Tune your ukuleleNot getting quite the right sounds out of your ukulele any more?
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She taught herself to write songs, play drums, guitar, and ukulele using online resources.
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The police come by to tell an older man to stop playing the ukulele.
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Thank God I had a guitar and not a ukulele in front of me.
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There's some that teach you to play the ukulele, there's some that teach students.
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"Stephanie had brought her ukulele and she told me she wrote songs," Mullally recalled.
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Rebecca sent us a ukulele draft of the song with the voice actors' performances.
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Instead of being distant, hyper-rich superstars, they're ukulele-playing teens sat on their bed.
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She happened to be dating a ukulele player, so Buffett took up the instrument, too.
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Grace VanderWaal: 12-Year-Old Ukulele Player Gets Golden Buzzer - America's Got Talent 2016 6.
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The young singer-songwriter and her ukulele beat 35 other contestants for the coveted prize.
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You may also picture him with a guitar, bass, or even ukulele in his hand.
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And perhaps, just perhaps, this Bluetooth-capable ukulele is the first step in that direction.
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He's played the ukulele on live television, at charity events and in front of investors.
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He has passed away, but he's one of the most popular ukulele musicians in Hawaii.
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He was a ragtime pianist and ukulele player and wrote plays for children and adults.
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Mil is Amelia Robinson, and what she trills on is quite unusual: an electric ukulele.
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She was raised in Hawaii and is more about hula and her ukulele than running.
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Still, strumming a ukulele doesn't guarantee going viral, and musical series have an iffy history.
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You can also learn the ukulele, the bass, the piano, and singing with the app.
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They both played the ukulele and the guitar, and Ari had recently taken up songwriting.
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And a third attendee purchased Madonna's ukulele for $300,000, after Madonna offered a number of sweeteners.
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The $149 ukulele has surpassed its goal on Indiegogo and is slated to ship this year.
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But I learned to play the ukulele as well, so it was all really uncharted territory.
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These days the only instrument many children are taught to play in school is the ukulele.
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Buffett has played the ukulele on live television, in front of investors, and at charity events.
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Strahan then plays ukulele and sings a creative (albeit made-up) song to the adorable youngster.
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The resulting mix of high and low tech (and sinful ukulele playing) are a real treat.
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Jay Lichty's big business idea came to him in a dream, playing a very specific ukulele.
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"It's so hard to move on this February day," sings ukulele player and singer Kay Kasparhauser.
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Then I got out my ukulele and found "God Bless America" coming out of my mouth.
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It's super textured, and it's all field recordings and stuff, mixed with this super-bright ukulele.
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Eventually, a girl he liked got him into screamo, and his aunt got him a ukulele.
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They had musical instruments in tow: Beth, a cello; Ben, a ukulele; Molly, a toy glockenspiel.
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It's a waltz that builds from modest ukulele strumming and glimmering electronics to full cinematic orchestration.
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These training bundles will take you from zero to guitar (or piano, bass, ukulele, EDM) hero.
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"The vision was to have the whole world play an ukulele," says Joe on the episode.
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VanderWaal consistently wowed both AGT judges and audiences with her earnest original songs and trademark ukulele.
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Rubin explains how last year, she decided to learn the ukulele after hearing it was fun.
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I'm just a regular 13-year-old, but I love to write music and play the ukulele.
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In addition to her songwriting chops, Raine is a multi-instrumentalist who plays piano, guitar, and ukulele.
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I feel bad for neglecting the plants yesterday, so as an apology I play ukulele for them.
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So what's the difference between a teenager—let's take the example of: You watch the ukulele video.
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She taught herself how to play the ukulele from YouTube videos – and she also plays the saxophone!
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Also Jake Shimabukuro, who is a Japanese-American guy in Hawaii who just rips on the ukulele.
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I had my concert-sized ukulele and some equipment with me, plus a few kilos of water.
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The clue says "Marilyn Monroe played one in 'Some Like It Hot,'" and the answer is UKULELE.
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His sister, a junior at Stoneman Douglas, softly sang Ariana Grande's "Ghostin," strumming chords on her ukulele.
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Sheryl Sandberg keeps her phone off at night, Jeff Bezos values laughter and Warren Buffett plays the ukulele.
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The ukulele was invented by the Portuguese, and that's our heritage that has been passed down five generations.
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If you're Elvis, you can stand on the sand, in little white shorts, and pluck at your ukulele.
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NeverShoutNever was another MySpace phenomenon and he is best described as a sentient emo fringe with a ukulele.
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Yousician, free for iOS and Android, is a fabulous place to start learning piano, guitar, ukulele or bass.
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My boyfriend is in the passenger seat, and our friend Jordan is strumming a ukulele in the back.
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Forsythe responded, ""I told her, 'No, you can win an Oscar, you can learn to play the ukulele.
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The star told Corden she wrote her first song on a ukulele when she was 7 years old.
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In fact, he hopes Mars One will let him take a small ukulele on his final journey to Mars.
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Her character, Miss Caroline, plays the ukulele and sings songs to keep the children calm — including "Shake It Off"!
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Who else pushed him to be a complete professional in all the things he did, even plinking the ukulele?
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A vacation game meant as a portal to sunshine, the ambient strum of ukulele music, and sweet plumeria scents.
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Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates likes to read before bed, while Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett plays the ukulele.
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The store's owner, Dan Courtenay, was outside, sweeping the sidewalk around a statue of Marilyn Monroe playing a ukulele.
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When she shows up with her ukulele in tow, strumming improvised songs, Kate is immediately a little put off.
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So he wrote a book of local songs for ukulele and traveled the North Island, teaching and performing them.
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But except for an occasional stutter and a ukulele as her instrument of choice, she's very much an everygirl.
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For example, you first need to have a ukulele to practice on before you learn how to play it.
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He lies sprawled on a bench in the studio, strumming a ukulele, which he sets aside to greet me.
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They do things like cover "Wonderwall" with a ukulele, or bang out bastardized violin interpretations of Jimi Hendrix songs.
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"Generally in Polynesian culture, we're raised on singing and playing guitar or ukulele and dancing and singing," he tells PEOPLE.
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Rather than storm in and attack them with that damn ukulele, she rushes to her room and packs her bags.
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"He's been playing ukulele lately," says the mother of one, who's currently working on a new record of her own.
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Full confession: I've held a ukulele before, tuned one, and learned a few chords, all of which I've since forgotten.
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So what does the tiny, ukulele-strumming singing sensation from Suffern, New York, like to do in her free time?
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The 13-year-old singer and ukulele player first stole viewers' hearts when she won America's Got Talent in 2016.
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"Generally in Polynesian culture, we're raised on singing and playing guitar or ukulele and dancing and singing," he told PEOPLE.
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Before I left, Bob showed me the framed portrait that I had shot in December of Bob with his ukulele.
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Meet Grace VanderWaal, a 12-year-old singer, songwriter, and ukulele player with talent far bigger than her tiny presence.
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Leo first meets Stargirl when she performs "happy birthday" to him on the ukulele, in the middle of the cafeteria.
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In her videos, she appears winkingly gracious to her "fans" for listening to "Friday," then performs a twee ukulele version.
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Making customers happy is a store priority and an essential element of the appeal of the ukulele itself, he said.
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One event is a ukulele caroling party at Washington Square Park's arch; if that instrument doesn't suit you, on Dec.
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Before this sippin' sista was an Emmy nominated girl, she was just another ukulele playin' lady in New York City.
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Ukulele in hand, the actress and her costars introduced themselves to the kids, and asked what songs they wanted to hear.
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The Populele U1 is a smart ukulele with a light-up fret board and a companion app that pairs over Bluetooth.
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On Wednesday, the 12-year-old singer-songwriter and ukulele player snagged the America's Got Talent title and $1 million prize.
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I'm not saying it would add much value; I'm just used to some jaunty ukulele in the background of beauty videos.
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" Mr. Pop recalled, "He wrote the [chord] progression on ukulele, and he said, 'Call it "Lust for Life," write something up.
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Because he couldn't get her a gift this year, he said, he learned to play her favorite song on the ukulele.
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My friend grabs the check since I'm lending her my ukulele (which is why we met up in the first place).
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We eat our breakfast on the porch, and then I weed the garden and sing and play ukulele for the plants.
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She also takes photos for brands like House of Sunny, NOE Garments, and Ukulele Fashion—some of whom she models for.
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Not really, but it's definitely better than going page-by-page through the Mel Bey Ukulele Method written by Roy Smeck.
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Buffett makes time for his hobby When Buffett isn't busy being the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, he enjoys playing the ukulele.
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Through all this, Livvie wrote songs to soothe her soul, and learned to play the ukulele, piano, guitar, bass and violin.
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Mr. Boggia starts playing "When You Wish Upon a Star" on his ukulele and raspily invites us all to sing along.
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Mr. Jaffee told The Globe that he was inspired as a boy by watching Arthur Godfrey strum a ukulele on television.
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It was a purchase that nearly sent shock waves through the ukulele community for fear of a shortage, Mr. Murray said.
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We all get crowned with braided palm leaf headbands, and J learns how to play a short tune on the ukulele.
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For example, Bill Gates reads before bed; Warren Buffett plays the ukulele; Sheryl Sandberg simply turns off her phone at night.
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Every Hawaiian-shirt wearing, orchid-bearing, coconut-sipping tiki nut will have packed his ukulele and flown to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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He taught me to play the ukulele when I was eight, and when I got older we upgraded to a guitar.
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When they began producing toys, their first big hits were a child-size ukulele and cap pistol called the Burp Gun.
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Girls Inc of Omaha once hosted a ukulele concert as a benefit for Buffett, in which they earned $344.23 in donations.
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The song's melody came from ukulele-like cavaquinhos, overwhelmed by a battery of drummers banging furiously on an array of percussive instruments.
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Wellbeing Enterprises, a social enterprise near Liverpool, helps to organise activities including ukulele lessons and tango classes for patients referred by GPs.
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This young woman does a few nervous duck faces while she's performing a relaxing ukulele cover of the best song of 2016.
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When John was 7, his father made him a ukulele from a cigar box and his mother taught him to play it.
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Robinson, who plays an electric ukulele and leads a band, habitually invites young listeners to bring their own instruments to her events.
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In 2016, Grace VanderWaal — a singing, songwriting, ukulele-strumming 12-year-old — auditioned for "America's Got Talent," and something like magic occurred.
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The clips showwomen and queer and transgender people demonstrating different activities, from cooking and ukulele playing to truck driving, and much more.
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He also accompanied himself on ukulele while singing the Coca-Cola song for a 100th birthday tribute to his favorite soft drink.
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While technicians worked on the video, one actor playing Mailer strummed a ukulele; another chatted with Ms. Tierney, who plays Ms. Greer.
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In December, she appeared at Rockwood Music Hall in Manhattan, where she played harp ukulele, accompanied by a double bass and violin.
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but a cigar box can often be many things — like the body of a ukulele.
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She also has a ukulele and a "jam basket" for her egg shakers, harmonicas and tambourines, which she encourages guests to play.
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For its first 25 seconds, "Old Town Road" could be any other rural lament, a lonely howl delivered over a plucked ukulele.
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She also appeared in ABC's Dirty Dancing remake, where she showed off her musical chops as Lisa Houseman, Baby's ukulele-playing older sister.
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Grace Vanderwaal nabbed the coveted golden buzzer from Howie Mandel with her chillingly-good ukulele performance (of a song she wrote herself!). 5.
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A few seconds later, Madonna came onstage with a ukulele, gave her former husband a kiss on the cheek and delivered a speech.
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I got to somewhat learn how to play the ukulele, I learned the tango and the meringue and the salsa and the foxtrot.
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Paralegal Angie is just as gruff as Nick Miller ever was, and Will is nearly as mushy as sing-talking, ukulele-playing Jess.
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They penned ukulele songs about boys and S'mores and other tween-to-teen concerns, and toured America and Europe opening for Kate Nash.
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He steals a piece of Anita's heart, then seduces the audience with his songs and his ukulele, hijacking the film completely and wonderfully.
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Ukulele music, fondue pots, flocked floral wallpaper and mounted antlers all mingle together in an attempt to be Swiss by way of Maui.
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"All I ever do is wait for you" is his refrain on another, a ukulele-driven collaboration with the Connecticut-based rapper Swell.
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Roz Chast and Patricia Marx, both of The New Yorker, talk about their new book, their ukulele band and, of course, their mothers.
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Fender Play for Android and iOS ($10 a month) has similar instructional videos with "bite-size" lessons for learning guitar, bass or ukulele.
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On Aloha Nights every other Saturday, the garden is staging a cultural complement of activities, including lei making, hula lessons and ukulele performances.
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The lobby was packed with a mix of families and guests who came to watch nightly hula dancing and ukulele-inflected live music.
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Take, for example, the situation that unfolded when Yusuke, an endearingly awkward ukulele prodigy, asked out Lauren, an aspiring artist and a model.
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He began playing for tips at a jam session at Charlie's Cab Stand, where he met another bright young ukulele player, Shoi Ikemi.
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They formed an instrumental duo, the Ukulele Rascals, which joined the bandleader Ray Kinney on a coast-to-coast mainland tour in 1949.
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"It came from those deluded wannabe manic pixie dream girl, ukulele-playing arseholes that I can completely recognize in myself," jokes Waller-Bridge.
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She is, among other things, engaged in a continuing art project that involves recording ukulele covers as unsolicited gifts for strangers and friends.
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This week on the Billboard album chart, Alexander Hamilton topped Mick Jagger, and a ukulele-playing 2175-year-old cracked the Top 210.
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Although best known for playing saxophones of all sizes, his arsenal also included clarinet, trumpet, violin, harmonica, panpipes, keyboards, trombone, ukulele and banjo.
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Her dad played ukulele, dobro and banjo, sisters Carrie and Lori served up some harmonies, and her uncle Tom plays guitar, bass and harmonica.
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But they, for some reason, in my one little interview, in my one little performance on my ukulele, they were like, 'You a star.
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Now, some of these kids picked up instruments like the kazoo and toy guitar in joining Buckingham on Ukulele and McVie on toy piano.
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The system uses Lego, motors, and what looks like an Arduino to bring evil songs out of that mini-guitar of death, the ukulele.
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She taught herself to play the guitar by listening to a Pete Seeger instructional record, and played the ukulele in coffeehouses around the city.
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The troupe arrived with props, a keyboard, a ukulele, a disarmingly humorous script and a handful of deeply moving songs the children had written.
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Upon his return to New Zealand from Duke, the sometime ukulele player was frustrated by the lack of sheet music for New Zealand standards.
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During her detainment Endo met her future husband, Kenneth Tsutsumi, who played the ukulele with friends to pass the time and entertain fellow detainees.
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His father, Julius, urged him to learn an instrument, so he studied piano as a child in Nigeria and later learned guitar and ukulele.
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A few seconds later, Madonna took to the stage with a ukulele, gave her former husband a kiss on the cheek and delivered a speech.
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"He just shouted at a man who boarded with a ukulele (also have questions) to COME SIT WITH ME AND MAKE SOME MUSIC," she wrote.
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"She played the ukulele and so I wanted one because she played one and I really liked it," the preteen explained on Access Hollywood Live .
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Justinegilbuena Accordion Enamel Pin, $10, available at EtsyCheck out the maker's shop to find enamel pins of other instruments, including a ukulele, violin, and piano.
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Before being cast by the Disney+ project in this major role, VanderWaal was known for her masterful singing (and original songs) and spectacular ukulele skills.
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Foulkes and the pile of found objects mirror each other, while García Nesitla accompanies them with a series of sounds produced from tuning his ukulele.
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To strains of ukulele music on the gramophone, the towheaded Idris often entertained her family by dancing the hula, happy as the center of attention.
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The garden is also staging a full cultural complement of demonstrations and activities, from hula performances and lei-making to ukulele players and poke trucks.
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO This 13-year-old singer and ukulele player broke through as a contestant on "America's Got Talent," but don't hold that against her.
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" And he played the ukulele and sang along with the Quebe Sisters at his annual meeting in 2008, with a version of "Red River Valley.
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Eddie Kamae, who expanded the realm of possibility for the ukulele and helped lead a resurgence of traditional Hawaiian music and culture, died on Jan.
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Six years ago Warren Buffett played the ukulele on CCTV during the Chinese New Year, endearing himself to hundreds of millions of viewers in China.
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Tiny Gallery is the brainchild of artist Emma Winston who is currently writing her PhD about intersectionality among ukulele subcultures at Goldsmiths College in London.
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During the waits, Ms. Yeomans passes the time by taking out her guitar or ukulele and jamming with Mr. Leeper, who brings along his guitar.
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A neon sign above the building lit up at night, welcoming guests with the image of a guy strumming an ukulele and a swaying hula girl.
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Less than a week later, a group of performers boarded the Fremantle line train at Claremont Station with a ukulele and their voices at the ready.
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Maia, a ukulele-playing 216-year-old, is one of the rising stars of the music industry even though she's chosen to stay on its fringes.
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Mr. Godfrey — a folksy, sentimental ukulele strummer to his audiences but an imperious, tyrannical boss behind the sets — ordered all his entertainers to take dancing lessons.
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Learning to play the ukulele lead him to pick up the bass, which happened concurrently with him learning to scream real nice and form Jesus Piece.
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There's a woman who covers Brown's songs on her ukulele, who embraced Brown's music while trying to cope with her mother's alcoholism and her own depression.
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On Aloha Nights (the last one is on Saturday), the garden is staging a cultural complement of activities, including lei making, hula lessons and ukulele performances.
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Today, he often experiments with sound by recording something organic — a pluck on his son's ukulele, for example — and manipulating it into a drawn-out drone.
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Lulu, a kind of proto-Fleabag, uses truth songs to wreak havoc among her housemates, and the ukulele she carts around like a personality isn't cute.
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Throughout the season, Vanderwaal, a ukulele player, routinely wowed judges Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel and Mel B with her original songs and raw musical talent.
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For example, you could decide that you only want to spend 10 minutes on Instagram a day so that you can have more time to practice ukulele.
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" Strumming a banjo ukulele, Mr. Eckert launches into a rhythmic musical invocation which galvanizes the others into joining him to perform "this tale of lust and love.
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As the sun slowly rose, I imagined I could hear the strains of traditional Hawaiian music: a lap slide guitar and the light strumming of a ukulele.
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She brings both of those talents to the movie, singing and playing "Be True to Your School" by The Beach Boys on the ukulele in one scene.
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Exuberance may not be a local trait but, on a recent Friday night, Lothersdale Village Hall was packed for a concert by the visiting Clitheroe Ukulele Orchestra.
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On Aloha Nights every other Saturday in July and August, the garden is staging a cultural complement of activities, including lei making, hula lessons and ukulele performances.
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First, though, I wanted to check out one of Volcano Beach's beach bars, which have outrigger sails on their roofs and ukulele music on their sound systems.
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The state's traditional musicians included Eddie Kamae, who expanded the ukulele playbook and helped lead a resurgence of traditional Hawaiian music and culture; he died in January.
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After she strummed a few of her tunes on the ukulele, the pair sang her first hit song, "Ocean Eyes," which Eilish said she recorded at 13.
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Ambience brought to you by a phone video of a woman playing a ukulele and a handful of rose petals where your undressed salad normally goes pic.twitter.
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Simply were compelled to record a six-part ukulele cover of the "Friends" theme song, but done slow and in a sort of honking vintage-y voice?
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A band member departs each hour, ultimately leaving Mac alone with just his ukulele for the final portion of the show — a metaphor for the AIDS crisis.
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Fender Songs is a new iOS app from the veteran guitar manufacturer which lets you learn the chords to millions of songs on guitar, piano, or the ukulele.
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AN EX-SOLDIER who plays the ukulele, a 28-year-old from Derbyshire and a woman who grew up in Lagos may not sound like typical Tory MPs.
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Despite his own misgivings—he is now 89—Mr Lehrer still has plenty of fans, with his songs covered in genres from (ironically) ukulele folk to death metal.
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" PEOPLE was on-hand for the nuptials, which included a "lilting ukulele," tropical fruit punch toasts and a Keith Urban song — "Making Memories — to accompany the cake-cutting.
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A co-working space for start-ups in the dilapidated town centre ticks all the boxes: exposed brickwork, board games, a man with pink hair strumming a ukulele.
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Based on Jerry Spinelli's young adult novel, the movie follows a teenage nonconformist with a ukulele in tow who arrives at a high school in small-town Arizona.
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Mil, who is known for her children's music and her electric ukulele, will demonstrate the process — and immerse young listeners in it — at this celebratory show in Brooklyn.
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But at the private Punahou School in Honolulu, Bob learned the ukulele and songs of the Polynesian Islands and met Mr. Guard, with whom he formed a duet.
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Ms. Cory, the ukulele player moving by electric pony, said that she had posted that morning a picture of a man she thought was a white-pride agitator.
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If you're looking for ideas, here's a list of 15 hobbies successful people practice in their spare time, from bridge (Bill Gates) to playing the ukulele (Warren Buffett).
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Cretton's parents homeschooled their children, but Cretton elected to go to his public junior high school, mostly because it offered a ukulele class he really wanted to take.
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This Mexican-American singer's music is often described as "ukulele electropop," but with its reggaeton and ambient touchstones, it feels much more eclectic than that label might suggest.
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The elements of children's music — plinking xylophones, strummed ukulele, singsong taunts — appropriately situate these dramas in the realm of childhood fantasy, where grandiosity, absurdity, and terror coexist naturally.
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At age 5, she found an instant connection with her first guitar and then went on to learn the piano, ukulele, and just enough drums to play for fun.
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There you are, watching a nice, long YouTube video, when an ad — usually with a stock soundtrack of a jangly ukulele and a glockenspiel — annoyingly rams itself somewhere midway.
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A radically independent, fiercely feminist, ukulele-playing, gregarious dog-lover, my daughter is one of the most intriguing and strong-willed people I've ever met — even if I'm partial.
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The singer/songwriter from New York showed off her chops in front of a stunned audience when she performed an original song "I Don't Know My Name" on ukulele.
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Before he was the Hey Girl feminist meme and one-time internet boyfriend, he played the ukulele and stole all our of hearts for a minute in Blue Valentine.
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For Speakerfoxxx (aka Nilan), music has been an integral part of her life since she was playing piano and ukulele at age five and singing in the church choir.
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He was a far-from-ordinary young man, a scrappy, skinny kid who played the ukulele and sang, born to a small Italian-American family in Hoboken in 217.
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The ukulele became a focus by happenstance: When he was 15, his oldest brother, a city bus driver, had found one left on a seat and brought it home.
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"She was dressed like Annie Hall, she played the ukulele, and it didn't hurt that she had a voice like a nuclear weapon," recalled Rachel Chavkin, the show's director.
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"I was kind of lost," Chris Stowe, a retired Marine who studied oil painting and learned how to play the ukulele in the program, said in a telephone interview.
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Amber, whose house it was, had an organ, which she played with big florid hand gestures and a big florid smile; Hank had a trumpet, and Jim a ukulele.
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Well, you don't have to since Driscoll's mom, Katrina posted a clip of Sheeran to Facebook playing "Photograph" on the ukulele while Melody rocks back and forth to the music.
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MANILA - Customers can sip coffee while listening to music or take part in a performance at the Uke Box Caffe, where ukulele lessons and rentals are also on the menu.
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The two actors celebrated 30 years of marriage on Tuesday and gave their fans a treat with a Bee Gees duet of "To Love Somebody" with both playing the ukulele.
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I play the ukulele by myself — I can't really do it in front of a lot of people — and I like to sing in my spare time when nobody's around.
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And now, thanks to a new BBC charity album coming this November, it turns out she can slay some ukulele Portishead covers with her Fleabag co-star, Olivia Colman, too.
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Twelve-year-old Grace Vanderwaal stole Simon Cowell's heart while plucking her ukulele, but the adorable America's Got Talent winner might not have been as victorious without her piggy bank.
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Mr. Joseph sings and raps, occasionally pounding at a piano or plunking a ukulele or a bass live, and Mr. Dun bashes the drums and triggers their intricate backing tracks.
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That evening, tiki torches were lit along the Fairmont's pathways, and ukulele music swelled from the hotel restaurant, mingling with the sound of waterfalls and the whisper of palm fronds.
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In an interview with HuffPost, Nyong'o said the ukulele lessons were "frustrating" at first, but after a few weeks she was able to get more into the swing of things.
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The song's peaceful, tinkling guitar riffs (it was composed by a guitalele, a ukulele with six strings, while Styles was on tour) perfectly capture his remorse and change of heart.
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Mil's Trills Winter Bash (Sunday) Not many ensembles are built around an electric ukulele, but that instrument is the specialty of Amelia Robinson, founder of the children's music series Mil's Trills.
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Instead, it was a much softer, more introspective Yeah Yeah Yeahs record that is perhaps closer to the ukulele-wielding Karen O than the animalistic Karen O performing "Art Star" 2004.
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"When things weren't going so well in the house, I would always go to my room and play my music or my guitar or my ukulele," the Miami, Florida, native said.
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Perhaps one day we won't associate the ukulele with the howls of a thousand demons massing for the destruction of our souls and instead associate it with only rainbows and light.
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The current beneficiary of this evergreen phenomenon is Einer Bankz, who has parlayed his ukulele skills into off-the-cuff collaborations with Chance the Rapper, Trippie Redd and YG, among others.
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"I've felt 26 or 2800 the last few years," he said, sitting in his preferred love seat in his living room, surrounded by collapsing piles of books and his ukulele collection.
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"It was not as tough as I thought it would be," pitcher Jake Agnos, 21, said of the ukulele, which he borrowed from one of his spring training roommates, Evan Voliva.
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A single pluck from his young son's out-of-tune ukulele might, for example, serve as the basis for a 20-minute drone that's then edited with other sounds and rhythms.
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Neighborhood Joint Ukulele devotees know that good things come in small packages, in all manner of shapes and styles, which is where the UkeHut in Long Island City, Queens, comes in.
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Even Eddie Vedder, the frontman for Pearl Jam, released "Ukulele Songs," a 2011 solo record devoted to the instrument, after its sounds seduced him while he was on vacation in Hawaii.
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Its rich culture of dance and music include the unique foot and arm movements of the hula dance, the ukulele and variations on the guitar, such as the slack-key method.
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While Emme and Ella, 10, sweetly sing in unison, Natasha, 14, joins in on the Elvis Presley classic "Can't Help Falling in Love" while simultaneously showing off her talents on the ukulele.
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So back to the Heroes beach we go to see who will be the latest recipient of the Sonja Christopher Golden Ukulele award as the first person voted out of the season.
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The 60-year-old actor shared a video of himself singing Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You" on a ukulele that he said was a gift for his wife, actress Kyra Sedgwick.
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And don't aggravate the artist's hyperacusis, a hearing disorder in which ordinary sounds can be painful, and the reason that Merritt switched from guitar to ukulele and Gonson from drums to piano.
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"Stargirl" (2020)"America's Got Talent" winner, singer, and ukulele player Grace VanderWaal stars as Stargirl Caraway in the teen drama "Stargirl" inspired by the book of the same name by Jerry Spinelli.
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There are still vestiges of self-professed theater-kid energy around her: a ukulele on the wall, "always show tunes" on the piano, a love of performing, play, and shocking little twists.
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A three-minute video posted to Twitter Sunday afternoon shows Gabbard in the back of her campaign bus alongside her husband, who sings the song with Gabbard while playing a ukulele. Imagine.
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On Aloha Nights every Saturday in June and every other Saturday in July and August, the garden is staging a cultural complement of activities, including lei making, hula lessons and ukulele performances.
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As sunlight streamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the 10,000-square-foot space, one young woman in a pink jumpsuit jammed on an acoustic guitar while another played a ukulele.
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I was onstage at Second City, and I thought it would be helpful if I could play the ukulele or the guitar in one of the sketches, the one called 'Grandma's Records.
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Inside Kiernan Music, the luthier and owner Brian Kiernan sells dozens of models of Hawaii's signature instrument, the ukulele — from tiny sopranos to large baritones; locally made koa-wood ukes top $1,000.
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Back in the 1960s and 1970s editions of the golden age of television, you couldn't swing a ukulele without running into the singer DON HO on someone's variety show, including his own.
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Suddenly you're at some backpacker's hostel in Laos, listening to an asshole strumming "Wonderwall" on their travel ukulele, and an unpleasant thought blunders into your head: Am I too old for this?
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But a ukulele doesn't have to be as high quality to be playable, and I think the Populele strikes a nice balance of price and quality — it'll launch for around $150 in February.
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Sugar usually composes the music for Steven Universe on a ukulele, but for "It's Over, Isn't It," she knew that wouldn't work for how she wanted the song to reflect Pearl's chaotic mindset.
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Once things had settled down, the family appears to have enjoyed a lovely dinner and "to cap it off" Hashian's mother performed a Polynesian hula as The Rock's mom strummed the ukulele and sang.
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Cartoon Network will chat about its upcoming season of the animated show with creator Rebecca Sugar (who will bring her ukulele) along with cast members Estelle, Michaela Dietz, Deedee Magno Hall, and Zach Callison.
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An ask: Just… just don't call this place with its soft openings, its book signings, its "here's a ukulele for the table," and its photos on-loan from-the-Govinda-Gallery a true dive.
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MARX I went to a wedding and the guests were asked to bring an instrument and I can't play a musical instrument but I thought, How hard can it be to play a ukulele?
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Yousician (for Android, iOS, Windows and MacOS) uses videos, animations and performance feedback to teach guitar, bass, piano, ukulele or voice; monthly plans start at $20 a month; cheaper annual plans are also available.
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The Sons of Hawaii originally featured Gabby Pahinui on vocals and slack-key acoustic guitar, with Mr. Kamae on ukulele, Joe Marshall on upright bass and David Rogers, known as Feet, on steel guitar.
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He keens some of Masters's darkest verse in a harsh tenor ("She drained me like a fevered moon/That saps the spinning world") while angrily strumming a tin can ukulele in his long johns.
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The 12-year-old ukulele player, who had the honor of being the closing act, wowed everyone with a performance of her original song "Clay" on night one of the America's Got Talent finale Tuesday.
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Ukulele covers of "This Must Be the Place" abound on YouTube, as do Remain in Light T-shirts at music festivals; Heads posters to this day adorn the bedrooms of indie fans across the globe.
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The version that appears in the movie itself is curiously muted, performed on a ukulele by a member of the circus troupe not when Dumbo is separated from his mother, but when they are reunited.
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Tonight, more than 9,000 people will fill Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver to listen to Vance Joy, an Australian singer-songwriter with a name like a game-show host and an abiding love for ukulele.
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He's also a nerd who leans hard into Austin's insufferable hipster image, promising free tacos to anybody who entertains the people behind them in line with a ukulele that the shop keeps in the window.
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On Friday, the pop star dropped The Love Train, a new EP that includes Trainor's own ukulele-backed wedding song "Marry Me." But the Grammy winner hadn't planned on sharing the track with the world.
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Ms. Robinson, who specializes in the electric ukulele, has dedicated her album to the spirit of play, and Namaste With Nat will get the audience in the mood with a preconcert all-ages yoga session.
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Complete with melodica, xylophone, kazoo, ukulele, and lemon shaker, Fallon and Co. picked up the beat and brought a brighter tone to the song, which turned the slow, body-grinding track into a lively salsa number.
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Nick Uhlig, who knew the family through his cousin's marriage to one of the Holcombes' children, told the Associated Press that Bryan also volunteered, and would go to prisons and sing with a ukulele to inmates.
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Although Vanderwaal — who stole America's hearts with her ukulele and array of original songs — plans to give most of her winnings to charity, she's understandably excited about the prospect of living out this classic childhood fantasy.
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As a staunch believer in non-existent superstitions I feel that the ukulele is a very dangerous, sensual instrument that could lead to the ruination of our young people and rend the very fabric of society.
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Songs like "Heart Attack" and "Honesty" are designed for dancing; even slower songs like "Coast to Coast" have a more contemporary pop feel than previous records, which were filled with ukulele and metallic tings and pings.
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The organization also has a puppet group that presents theatrical performances, a bluegrass group, a ukulele group and a Lake Writers group that holds monthly round-table meetings and presents evenings of stories, poems and memoir excerpts.
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I will tell you from experience it is surprisingly easy to learn several of those songs on ukulele, so if you have the whole day … well, you can be really singing along by the last two airings.
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So two months ago, on a hill overlooking the mountains at sunset, I read a love letter and played "Rivers and Roads" on the ukulele before I dropped to a knee and asked her to marry me.
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This show, presented by the BK Women's Songwriting Lab, will feature performances by Mil's Trills, starring Amelia Robinson and her electric ukulele; the singer-songwriter Suzi Shelton, whose topics have included tomboys and divorce; Katie Mullins, a.k.a.
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Whether you think he's the hottest Pod dweller since sliced bread or the dorkiest lug this side of the Mississippi (we saw that ukulele, justice for LC!), we can all agree Amber has fallen for this dude.
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Restaurants feature live music in genres like ukulele and slack key guitar, roots reggae and pop music by local performers, and shops sell trendy products like artisanal island chocolate and reproductions of 1930s to '50s Hawaiian shirts.
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In bookshops, for every copy of Mr Trump's auto-hagiography, "The Art of the Deal", or Kim Kardashian's book of auto-pornography, "Selfish", there are scores of tributes to a ukulele-playing Nebraskan who reads accounts for fun.
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She recorded Visions entirely on Garageband, and in order to make 2015's Art Angels the way she wanted she learned how to play the guitar, drums, ukulele, and violin, in addition to producing and engineering it alone.
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"If you ask people the question, 'What would you do if you didn't have to worry about finances and you had your basic needs met?' the answers are amazing," Ing says, while strumming a ukulele on a beach.
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And then a smiling girl (Grace VanderWaal) in brightly-colored clothes appears next to Leo's table in the cafeteria, announces herself as "Stargirl," and sings "Happy Birthday" to him in a beautiful, melodic voice (complete with ukulele accompaniment).
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But even before forming the Sons of Hawaii, Mr. Kamae had established a reputation for his head-turning proficiency on ukulele, a four-stringed instrument previously relegated to basic strummed accompaniment (or, on the mainland, exotic novelty purposes).
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Well, if the Washington football team's camp rookie skits are any indication of future playing time (they aren't), former Sooner Nila Kasitati will be starting from day one—his ukulele version of John Legend's "All of Me" killed it.
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The Jamaican reggae of The Upsetters was blended into Françoise Hardy's French pop singing on one episode, and on another, Rufo Garrido's Caribbean saxophone met the Hawaiian ukulele of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (whose name Strummer took great care in pronouncing).
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One side is home to a flourishing creator network, where makeup gurus, scientists, activists, gamers, comedians, ukulele players, and any other sub-community you can think of upload a diverse smorgasbord of material for a dedicated and eager audience.
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They tend to disadvantage parents with children too young for the kids' club — as a mother of a toddler, I don't have many extra vacation hours to devote to the ukulele lessons or mixology classes I'm supposedly paying for.
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One of his more intriguing ventures began on road trips with the Senators: It resulted in the formation of a choral group, with Wolff on his ukulele, and players like Jim Lemon, Roy Sievers and Tex Clevenger singing along.
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Audiences saw in Deschanel an even more cutesy spin on the trope, with her massive, doe-like eyes, affinity for retro, super femme dresses, and love for the kind of singing that always sounded like it needed a ukulele accompaniment.
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The Mini is a smaller, ukulele-sized acoustic guitar while the Pro comes in an acoustic model or a fully electric hellbeast that can turn your first grader into Nikki Sixx (or John Mayer) with a little practice and some pyrotechnics.
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The 12-year-old winner of this season of America's Got Talent writes original songs, sings and plays the ukulele, and singers all over YouTube are already posting covers of Vanderwaal's music, which the show's judges have raved about all season.
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Lynzy Lab Stewart shared a ukulele-backed song titled "A Scary Time" in which she sings about male privilege and the many reasons women have to fear men, ranging from being raped to feeling belittled for speaking out about sexual assault.
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Grace VanderWaal, a 423-year-old known for winning the "America's Got Talent" televised talent show (trusty ukulele in tow), will make her acting debut in "Stargirl," a bespoke little musical about being yourself and the thrill of young love.
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I love cooking restaurant food at home – getting into the kitchen to make like a ukulele cover band, striving just to hit a few of the right notes, just enough of them to let me and maybe others recognize the song.
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He is the volunteer president of the Tampa Bay Ukulele Society, a nonprofit with 2,000 members, and devotes about three hours a day to the group, which offers music programs in local libraries and hospitals and also raises funds for charity.
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After learning how to play the ukulele, Mr. Dale developed a musical signature influenced by the traditions of his father, who was Lebanese, and his mother, who was from Eastern Europe, and by the flamboyant big-band drummer Gene Krupa.
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The story follows Dave (Alexander England), a wannabe rock guitar player who volunteers to chaperone his nephew's kindergarten field trip to up his proximity to Miss Caroline (Lupita Nyong'o), a dedicated teacher with a penchant for entertaining students with a ukulele.
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Mr. Edgecomb said his essay will be about the show's final hour, which featured Mr. Mac — depleted, but upright — alone on his ukulele just like in his early days at the Slide, an old-school gay bar in the East Village.
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Make a few greeting cards, work the wine harvest, crochet some blankets, produce a documentary, start a consulting business, plant a garden, organize an adult summer camp, or record an album of ukulele songs and give it away for free.
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"I think once you really see their faces, see the cheeky chappy playing a bottle as if it's a ukulele, identify the sturdy one or the stern one, you catch their personalities so much better," Jenny Waldman, director of 14-18 NOW, says.
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The result is a record full of French-and-Latin inspired takes on recognizable songs like "Miss You" by The Rolling Stones and "Moon River," the melancholy tune made famous by Audrey Hepburn and her ukulele in 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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Her top 10 songs includes "Oklahoma" from the musical of the same name by Rodgers and Hammerstein and "Anything You Can Do" from Annie Get Your Gun and the popular classic number "Leaning on a Lampost," sung by British ukulele player George Formby.
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The current version of Youtubers Life only has the Pewdiepie-type, Let's Player mode available, meaning the celebrity lifestyles of makeup tutorial makers, ASMR role-players, unboxers, and the human punching bags who do shoebox ukulele covers are hopefully on the way.
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Udemy, which provides a marketplace offering some 573,257 different online learning courses from business analytics to ukulele lessons, has picked up $2000 million from a single investor, Benesse Holdings, the Japan-based educational publisher that has been Udemy's partner in the country.
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Leo has a change of heart when he meets "Stargirl" (Grace VanderWaal), a quirky new student whose bright clothes, unapologetically confident personality, and penchant for playing the ukulele in the middle of the football field shakes up the status quo at his school.
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They would spend nights sharing a bottle of wine and playing a terrifyingly intimate game they called "truth songs," where Ms. Waller-Bridge would pluck out a melody on her ukulele and every word they sang was required to be the absolute truth.
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Please, just watch, via BBC: We've known Waller-Bridge has some kind of deep connection with the ukulele ever since one popped up over and over in her original Fleabag monologue, but now, finally, we get to watch her shred the uke in person.
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Mel B's golden buzzer went to 13-year-old singer Laura Bretan, Howie Mandel pressed the coveted button for 12-year-old ukulele player Grace VanderWaal and Heidi Klum selected 20-year-old pizza delivery man-turned-vocalist Sal Valentinetti for her golden choice.
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At Unstad Arctic Surf, the decorative vibe is decidedly hang-loose and tropical, with Polynesian carvings on the walls, a souvenir Waikiki license plate and a ukulele in a stairway and a mannequin wearing a grass skirt and coconut bra in the dining room.
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Taking off his (collarless) jacket would be his only wardrobe change, he announced, and most of his stage moves simply involved switching instruments: bass, acoustic and electric guitars, grand and upright pianos, even a ukulele (taking on the chromatic challenge of George Harrison's "Something").
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One day in June 1958, Wolff, playing the ukulele, appeared on the Washington Mall with Sievers, his fellow outfielders Jim Lemon and Albie Pearson and a couple of Senators pitchers and joined them in song for the NBC-TV "Today" program, hosted by Dave Garroway.
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" Tech elites who are looking for more than extra zeros in their bank statements are finding it in an unlikely place: so-called songversations, emotion-heavy gatherings that combine philosophical rap sessions with improvised music, run by a ukulele-strumming songstress who describes herself as a "heartist.
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The charismatic Nyong'o is easily the best part of this feeble Australian horror comedy, arriving Friday to Hulu, as Miss Caroline, a Taylor Swift-crooning, ukulele-strumming teacher who turns fierce when her class is attacked by zombies while on a field trip to a petting farm.
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Mr. Wolff, who broadcast on radio as well as TV for the Senators, also did their pregame and postgame shows, pitched batting practice and, playing the ukulele, teamed with several ballplayers to form the Singing Senators, who once displayed their amateur musical talents on NBC's "Today" show.
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Klum, 44, shared her excitement about the upcoming episode featuring her ex-husband on Monday by posting on her social media accounts, "Love goofing around with Seal on AGT #JudgeCuts!" along with a video of the two singing a silly duet together to the tune of a ukulele.
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Although, come on: 246 songs spanning 240 years for 24 straight hours, including small breaks for him to eat, hydrate and use the loo, and starting in 1776 with a great-big band and ending with Mr. Mac, alone in 18563, doing original songs on piano and ukulele.
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Although Midler became known for the swift, self-mocking stage patter of her creation the Divine Miss M—she's looser and more cynical than Dolly Parton—she sometimes lets the island girl come out, and her ukulele playing while she sings a Hawaiian song is soft, slow, and tender.
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Wielding instruments as if they were toys, the Skivvies' leaders Nick Cearley ("All Shook Up"), who played the ukulele, melodica and guitar, and his mischievous curly-headed partner Lauren Molina ("Rock of Ages"), on electric cello and kalimba, treated the stage like a glorified sandbox for grown-up children.
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One of Josh Kaufman's discoveries when he was learning the ukulele was that most of the pop songs involved just four chords: G, D, E-minor and C. By mastering these four chords, he was able to play most of the pop songs in the past five decades.
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While her words explore the darkest corners of herself, the music explores something more traditional, seeing pedal steel, mellotron (a 1960s keyboard favored by the Beatles in their more experimental recordings), ukulele, harp, cello, and tenor sax all making appearances — none of which are particularly popular in most modern pop recordings.
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There were a few moments during the occupation—like when a guy in Morbid Angel gym shorts stopped by, or when various folks brought out a guitar, or a ukulele, or an accordion (?)—that reminded me that, oh yeah, music exists, but by and large, my ears have been on hiatus.
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But my mom put together a little private ceremony and my teachers came and some of them spoke and I spoke and Lulu Wilson, the girl who played my little sister in Ouija — I've been really close with her and her family — she played the ukulele and wrote a song.
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When the racket of whistle and applause wanes, Andy Wilkinson sets the ukulele at his feet, spreads a notebook across the lectern and—as he gazes into a 230-seat auditorium—launches headlong into the prologue of his keynote address at the 231rd annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.
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Having fully embraced her recent motherhood, Amy Lee just released an album of lullabies so children may also experience this sense of existential comfort, lending the vocal chords that brought you "Wake me up inside!" to ukulele-driven songs with lyrics like "There's a monkey in the band, the muffins are sleepy".
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If you had told me in the "screw mediation, I'm getting a lawyer" days that, someday, we would thank one another (without sarcasm!) for handling some tedious kid task, or that we'd sit together at a recital laughing and applauding our child's ukulele prowess, I'd have said you were sniffing too many Sharpies.
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They kept busy with activities ranging from playing video games (MLB The Show was the most popular) to filming home workout videos (which included racing against ducks and chickens) to binge watching movies (one player was watching all 22020 Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films in order) to learning to play the ukulele.
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Except for a few years at WQEW in the 1990s, he stayed at WFUV, playing songs from his vast personal library of 78s, taking not a lot of money, giving lots of listeners a happy education in Sophie Tucker, Cab Calloway, Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike) and Isham Jones.
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Th crowd was more diverse, in terms of age and race, than I had expected from a Sanders event (or a RHCP concert, for that matter); a pre-show video montage of social and political leaders set to a live, ukulele rendition of "This Land Is Your Land" leaned heavily on non-white icons.
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"I can't walk to my car late at night while on the phone, I can't open up my windows when I'm home alone, I can't go to a bar without a chaperone and I can't wear a mini skirt if its the only one I own," Stewart sings to the picking of a ukulele.
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But Mr. Joseph re-emerged in a flowered shirt, ukulele in hand, furiously strumming the Violent Femmes-like "We Don't Believe What's on TV." A too-long set of older songs on a B stage in the rear of the arena felt half-considered compared to the elaborate gestures the band pulled off up front.
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"I hope that kids would go home and they would read and they would discover things that they're interested in doing, and go on YouTube and figure out how to play the ukulele, or go and research what's going on with Space X, or talk to their friends or get outside and play," Felicello said.
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Over the course of three hours, he also sang a mash-up of Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" and Diamanda Galás's "Let's Not Chat About Despair"; accompanied ballads of his own composition on a cigar-box ukulele; and described the dream, involving Pegasus and the actress Maggie Smith, that supposedly provoked his first nocturnal emission.
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Trivia Crack (freemium) for Android and iOS4) YousicianScreenshot: GizmodoYou need to have an instrument and some modicum of musical talent for this one, and somewhere you can sit and play while watching a video—but if you fit all of those criteria, then Yousician is a great way to learn new tunes on your piano, guitar, bass, or ukulele.
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Interspersed throughout, the songs — from such indie bands as Neutral Milk Hotel and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, arranged by the show's music director, Jeff Cox — let the cast and director, Michael Doliner, demonstrate their chops on vocals as well as cello (Anya Gibian), electric guitar (Sara Jecko), violin (Jessica Greenwald), ukulele (Kat Blackwood) and piano (Mr. Doliner).
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VanderWaal is constantly asked about things that happened to her when she was 12, even though, at 16, her priorities are more normal things like getting her license, finishing her sophomore year of high school, and, oh yeah, completing her album and wondering if she'll ever be more than just the girl with the ukulele from AGT.
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A self-described "spastic and kind of quirky" nerd who got teary-eyed after getting a C on a math test, she studied architecture, dance and circuitry, learned ukulele in class and even played in a school rock band, singing songs like Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle," which came out the year after she was born.
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His home is filled with the kind of things you'd expect—racks of dresses from Susie's clothing label The Vampire's Wife, shelves packed with well-loved books—and some things you might not necessarily expect, like a pillow hand-stitched with the lyrics to Push the Sky Away cut "Wide Lovely Eyes" or a pile of children's instruments, including a SpongeBob SquarePants ukulele.
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Rather than viewing each social network as an after-the-fact marketing arm for her music, she has taken to each on its own terms, creating a constellation of content that has made her not only an emerging pop star, but an unintentional — or at least innate — influencer fluent in short-form comedy clips (TikTok), video game streaming (Twitch), instructional ukulele videos (YouTube) and more.
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