Howard Levy

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Howard Levy
Howard Levy in concert
Background information
Born	(1951-07-31) July 31, 1951 (age 73) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Genres	Jazz fusion, Latin, folk, funk, world
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer, record label owner
Instruments	Harmonica keyboards
Years active	1970s–present
Labels	Balkan Samba
Website	www.levyland.com

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."^[1]

In 1988, Levy was a founding member of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones,^[2] 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.