Victor Wooten
| Victor Wooten | |
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Wooten playing at the Belly Up in 2006.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Victor Lemonte Wooten |
| Born |
September 11, 1964 Mountain Home, Idaho, United States |
| Genres | jazz fusion, funk, funk rock, hip hop, progressive metal |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, producer, author |
| Instruments | bass, fiddle, cello, drums, keyboards, guitar |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Associated acts | Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Steve Bailey, Vital Tech Tones, SMV, Greg Howe, Chick Corea Elektric Band, Octavision |
| Website | www |
| Notable instruments | |
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Fodera Monarch Fodera Monarch Yin-Yang (4 string) Steinberger bass guitars |
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Victor Lemonte Wooten (born September 11, 1964) is an American bass player, composer, author, producer, and recipient of five Grammy Awards.
Wooten has won the "Bass Player of the Year" award from Bass Player magazine three times in a row, and was the first person to win the award more than once. In 2011, he was named #10 in the "Top 10 Bassists of All Time" by Rolling Stone. In addition to a solo career and collaborations with various artists, Wooten has been the bassist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones since the group's formation in 1988.
In 2008, Wooten joined Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller to record an album. The trio of bassists, under the name SMV, released Thunder in August 2008 and began a supporting tour the same month.
Wooten has also written a novel titled "The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music". On his website he has stated that he is currently writing a sequel and intends to release at least three more books.
Wooten also operates his own record label, Vix Records, on which he releases his own music.
Born to Dorothy and Elijah Wooten, Victor is the youngest of the five Wooten Brothers; Regi, Roy, Rudy and Joseph Wooten, all of whom are musicians. Regi began to teach Victor to play bass when he was two, and by the age of six, Victor was performing with his brothers in their family band, The Wooten Tootin' Brothers Band. As a United States Air Force family, they moved around a lot when Victor was very young, finally settling in the Warwick Lawns neighborhood of Newport News, Virginia in 1972. He graduated from Denbigh High School in 1982. While in high school, Victor and his brothers played in the country music revue at Busch Gardens theme park in Williamsburg, Virginia. In 1987, he traveled to Nashville, Tennessee to visit friends that he made at the theme park, one of whom was a studio engineer who introduced him to Béla Fleck, with whom he still collaborates musically.
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