"May says he's open to new sounds and ideas - maybe a detour into R&B or electronic music, he says - but for now, he'll keep playing ukulele until people realize it's not a joke.Since he's playing in Beantown, I suspect Craig is already standing in line for tickets. Link'I do think the ukulele deserves to be taken more seriously,' he says. 'It's misunderstood, but that's one of the reasons I wanted to play it in the first place.'"
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Don't recall any people using success in the uke world as the launching-pad for a non-uke musical career, but he may just be the first, & if other young players start to feel that the ukulele cannot meet their creative needs adequately, we may see more follow suit, & a new paradigm established, as it were (not at all the same thing as a famous guitarist playing a uke for a bit before "moving up").
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