As he was laying down the bass riffs for Ray Charles ... “All these fantastic chord harmonies that just, you know, took music to a whole new level on the ukulele.” But at the time, the ...

Now Lanikai is one of his main competitors. His father played the ukulele. “I got a picture of me as a baby with a ukulele,” he said. “I grew up playing rock and roll. Being a musician is a ...