Howard Levy

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."

Howard Levy
Howard Levy in concert
Background information
Born (1951-07-31) July 31, 1951
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
GenresJazz fusion, Latin, folk, funk, world
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, record label owner
Instrument(s)
  • Harmonica
  • keyboards
Years active1970s–present
LabelsBalkan Samba
Websitewww.levyland.com

In 1988, Levy was a founding member of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, 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.

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