When Charley Yang, better known as BoyWithUke, the boy with a ukulele, first went viral on TikTok in 2021 with his song “Toxic,” he kept his face hidden behind an LED-lit mask. He kept his ...

The moniker was literal: Yang was indeed a boy who strummed a ukulele, over bouncy hip-hop ... because he wore a mask. Worried about how his music would be received, Yang made his TikTok videos ...

His disguise—a hoodie and an evolving series of masks—combined with the extremely ... chronicles his hero’s journey from the shy, ukulele-playing masked singer-songwriter to an artist ...