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Howard Levy
American multi-instrumentalist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Howard Levy (born July 31, 1951) is an American multi-instrumentalist. A keyboardist and virtuoso harmonica player, Levy "has been realistically presented as one of the most important and radical harmonica innovators of the twentieth century."[1]
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Born | (1951-07-31) July 31, 1951 (age 72) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
Genres | Jazz fusion, Latin, folk, funk, world |
Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, record label owner |
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Years active | 1970s–present |
Labels | Balkan Samba |
Website | www |
In 1988, Levy was a founding member of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones,[2] with whom he won a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for the song "The Sinister Minister". He also won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition in 2012 for "Life in Eleven", a song written with Béla Fleck for the Flecktones' album Rocket Science (2011). He has worked with Arab-fusion musician Rabih Abou-Khalil, Latin jazz saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera, Donald Fagen, and Paul Simon.