1. Jim Beloff was born on December 25,1955 and is an American musician.
10 Facts About Jim Beloff
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Jim Beloff established Flea Market Music, publisher of the Jumpin' Jim's ukulele songbook series.
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Jim Beloff is a singer-songwriter and has recorded several solo CDs as well as two with his wife, Liz.
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Jim Beloff is a graduate of Hampshire College where he focused on musical theater.
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Jim Beloff then changed companies to Billboard Magazine and became associate publisher.
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Many credit Jim Beloff with being the driving force behind the recent resurgence of the ukulele.
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Not finding any current music available for the ukulele, Jim Beloff discovered a dealers' cache of unused music from decades earlier.
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Jim Beloff offers over two dozen music books covering many genres.
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Jim Beloff has sold over 55,000 instruments since the first prototype.
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In 1995, Jim Beloff produced the first annual UKEtopia concert at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California.