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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 Hillbillies. He received his first banjo at age fifteen...

There are two artists with the name Fleck: 1) A dubstep/dub/jungle producer from Athens, Greece FLeCK is an electronic music producer and Dj, signed to Serial Killaz Recordings, member of Kings Hi Fi soundsystem and the Bristol collective Boom Sound. Born in Athens, Greece, started his music journey in the early 90's by producing breakbeat and jungle music, passing through dub and hip hop. His first official release goes back in 1999, a 12” single called “Cryogenics” released on Evil Recordings, which had a great review from the famous UK music magazine Knowledge. In 2009 published his debut album “Dub...

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones is a multi-Grammy winning, primarily instrumental group from the United States, that draws equally on bluegrass, fusion and jazz, sometimes dubbed "blu-bop". The band formed in 1988, initially to perform once on the PBS series Lonesome Pine Specials. The Flecktones have toured extensively since then, often playing over 200 concerts per year. Each of the current members of the quartet has released at least one solo album. The band's name is a play on the name of the 1960s rock band Dick Dale and the Del-Tones. History Frontman Béla Fleck plays acoustic and electric banjos,...

Fleckfumie is the Berlin, Germany duo of Nick Glöckner & Fumie Tsuji, formed 2000. Some of their releases are available on AFTERHOURS (Japan). Sites: Discogs & http://Fleckfumie.com/home.html (official). .