The Ukulele/Jake Shimabukuro

In my musical autobiography, I made a disparaging comment about Dennis Kamakahi’s son only playing the ukulele. It’s a little wimpy, I said, compared to slack key. Mike Seeger’s wife noted this and seemed to want to sell me on the ukulele. I had to defend my appreciating the unique qualities of the ukulele by mentioning Jake Shimabukuro. To my horrow, no one in the room including Mike Seeger had ever heard of Shimabukuro, who I would venture to say is probably the best ukulele player in the world today. The youtube clips of him show him as he looks today (in his 30s) and he stills looks good. But for me quintessential Shimabkuro was when he was younger with his glasses. I can't find any clips of him from when he was younger but here's a recent video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=O9mEKMz2Pvo