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Howard Levy was born on 31 July, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., is an American multi-instrumentalist. Discover Howard Levy's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Occupation Musician, composer, record label owner
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 31 July, 1951
Birthday 31 July
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1951

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."

1970

He discovered the overblow and overdraw techniques for chromatic playing in 1970.

These allow a harmonica player to obtain all the missing chromatic notes in the Richter-tuned diatonic harmonica.

1988

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".

In 1988, Levy co-founded Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.

He won a Grammy for Pop Instrumental for the song "The Sinister Minister".

1990

In the 1990s Levy founded Trio Globo with Eugene Friesen and Glen Velez.

He leads another band, Acoustic Express and is music director of the Latin jazz group Chévere de Chicago.

He is the founder of Balkan Samba Records.

The roster includes Chévere de Chicago, Alberto Mizrahi and Trio Globo, Fox Fehling, and Norman Savitt.

Levy has toured or recorded with Kenny Loggins, John Prine, Ben Sidran, Bob Gibson, Bobby McFerrin, Bryan Bowers, Chris Siebold, Chuck Mangione, Claudio Roditi, David Bromberg, Styx, Dennis DeYoung, Dolly Parton, Donald Fagen, Holly Cole, Jerry Butler, Mark Nauseef, Miroslav Tadic, Paquito D'Rivera, Pete Seeger, Steve Goodman, Terry Callier, and Tom Paxton.

Levy favors an equal temperament tuning and plays harmonicas customized by Joe Filisko.

As leader or co-leader

With Béla Fleck and the Flecktones

With Samo Salamon

1992

He left the band in 1992.

Levy toured with Kenny Loggins and appeared on his album Outside from the Redwoods.

1995

In 1995, he performed the "Harmonia Mundi Suite for Harmonica and Chamber Ensemble" in Chicago.

2001

He composed a concerto for harmonica in 2001 and performed it with orchestras in the U.S. and Europe.

2011

Levy returned to the Flecktones in 2011, touring and recording the album Rocket Science (2011).

2012

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.

Levy was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied piano and pipe organ.

For two years, he went to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and participated in the jazz band.

He is the Harmonica Lessons instructor for ArtistWorks.

Levy plays in many genres: jazz, classical, rock, folk, Latin, blues, country, and world music.

He drew attention for his chromatic playing style on a regular diatonic harmonica.