Béla Fleck

Person · Open Library

Works

4

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Film & TV

New York City, New York, USA

Béla Anton Leoš Fleck is an American banjo player. An acclaimed virtuoso, he is an innovative and technically proficient pioneer and ambassador of the banjo, bringing the instrument from its bluegrass roots to jazz, classical, rock and various world music genres.

Known for

• A Kentucky Treasure: The J.D. Crowe Story — Self2021
• Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music — Self - Musician2019
• Flamekeeper: The Michael Cleveland Story — Self2019
• Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind: The Carolina Chocolate Drops' Story — Self2019
• The Porchlight Sessions — Self2017
• Revival: The Sam Bush Story — Self2015
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self2015
• Zakir Hussain: The SFJazz Sessions — Béla Fleck2014
• The Librarian and The Banjo — Self2013
• Give Me the Banjo — Self2011

via TMDB

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

136,709

Total plays

1,912,326

Béla Fleck (born July 10, 1958 in New York City, New York) is an American virtuoso banjo player. He is most well known for his work with the band Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, which he has described as "a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz." Fleck, who is named after famous Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, was drawn to the banjo when he first heard Earl Scruggs play the theme song for the television show Beverly Hillbilli

via Last.fm · Béla Fleck

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

New York City

Spouse

Abigail Washburn

Occupation

bandleader

Genre

bluegrass music

Instrument

voice

Record label

Rhino

Official website

www.belafleck.com

Image

Belafleck.jpg

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