http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/bill-tapia ... -ar-gammalUkulelespelaren Bill Tapia avled på fredagen i Los Angeles, USA, en månad innan han skulle fylla 104 år. För ett halvår sedan släppte han sitt senaste album.
Tapia föddes på Hawaii och har spelat med stjärnor som Louis Armstrong och Bing Crosby.
Han inledde sin karriär med att spela för soldaterna i första världskriget och undervisade filmstjärnor som Clark Gable och Shirley Temple när ukulele-feber drabbade USA. Han gjorde comeback vid 96 års ålder.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16021947Ukulele player Bill Tapia, who performed with the likes of Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Elvis Presley, has died aged 103.
A statement posted on his website said he was "widely believed to be the oldest performing musician ever to take to the stage".
The musician, who received his first ukulele aged 7, died at his home in California.
He began his career entertaining World War I troops in 1918.
The obituary on his website said he was the "last living link to the earliest days of both jazz and the ukulele as a popular instrument".
A professional musician by the age of 10, he released his first CD, Tropical Swing, in 2004 aged 96.
The Honolulu-born musician, who was also known as Tappy, passed away just six months after releasing a live album celebrating his 100th birthday.
He was inducted into the Ukulele Hall of Fame in 2004 and received a lifetime achievement award from the Hawaiian Academy of Recording Arts earlier this year.
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