Béla Anton Leoš Fleck (born July 10, 1958) is an American banjo player. An acclaimed virtuoso, he is an innovative and technically proficient pioneer and ambassador of the banjo, playing music from …

The 15-time Grammy Award winner has been nominated in more categories than any other artist in Grammy history, and remains a powerfully creative force globally in bluegrass, jazz, classical pop, …

Bela Fleck is an American musician recognized as one of the most inventive and commercially successful banjo players of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He has written and recorded …

Béla Fleck, considered the premiere banjo player in the world, lives to improvise and loves to work with unexpected musical fusions. In high school, Béla began his experimentation by playing...

Banjoist Béla Fleck, harmonica and keyboardist Howard Levy, bassist Victor Wooten, and percussionist / drumitarist Roy “Future Man” Wooten have been creating some of the most forward-thinking music …

Dec 22, 2025 · Born and raised in New York City, Béla began his musical career playing the guitar. In the early 1960's, while watching the Beverly Hillbillies, the bluegrass sounds of Flatt & Scruggs …

Influential American banjoist whose approach merges improvisational concepts and approaches from both jazz and bluegrass. Vertigo (feat. Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Bryan Sutton) Béla …

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones is an American jazz fusion band that is known for its eclectic style and instrumentation, combining jazz improvisation with progressive bluegrass, rock, classical, funk, and …

Early in his career, banjoist Béla Fleck toured with the American progressive bluegrass band New Grass Revival. In 1988 Fleck began recording and touring with Béla Fleck And The Flecktones, a project …

Dec 11, 2025 · Congrats to GRAMMY Nominees Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda & Antonio Sánchez for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: BEATrio