Béla Fleck

American musician
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Also known as: Béla Anton Leoš Fleck

Béla Fleck (born July 10, 1958, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American musician recognized as one of the most inventive and commercially successful banjo players of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Fleck became fascinated by bluegrass music during his youth in New York City. He began to play banjo when he was 15 years old, inspired by the music of guitarist-singer Lester Flatt and banjoist Earl Scruggs—the performers of the theme song of the then popular television series The Beverly Hillbillies. Throughout his student years at New York’s High School of Music and Art, he studied ...(100 of 631 words)