Victor Wooten
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Bass
Victor Wooten is an American bassist widely regarded as one of the most influential and technically innovative players on the instrument, best known as the founding bassist of the genre-blending acoustic group Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Beyond performing, he is an author and educator whose music-and-nature camps have made him a fixture of bass pedagogy.
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- Born September 11, 1964, in Mountain Home, Idaho; one of five musical brothers who performed as the Wooten Brothers.
- Founding member, in 1988, of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, alongside banjoist Bela Fleck and his brother Roy “Future Man” Wooten.
- A five-time Grammy Award winner across his work with the Flecktones.
- Voted Bass Player magazine's Bass Player of the Year three times — the first player to win it more than once.
- Released his debut solo album A Show of Hands in 1996, recorded with only a four-string bass and no overdubs.
- Author of The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music (2008) and its sequel The Spirit of Music (2021).
- Runs Victor Wooten's Center for Music and Nature at Wooten Woods, a retreat on the Duck River near Only, Tennessee.
- Named among Rolling Stone's 10 Greatest Bassists of All Time in 2011.
