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Victor Wooten

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Victor Lemonte Wooten, né le 11 septembre 1964 à Mountain Home, Idaho, est un musicien et bassiste américain. Artiste ayant une longue carrière solo, il a également joué dans plusieurs groupes.

Il est notamment le bassiste du groupe de country-jazz Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Victor Wooten est également membre de plusieurs groupes de fusion et de rock progressif, dont Bass Extremes (avec Steve Bailey, Derico Watson et Oteil Burbridge), The Vital Tech Tones (avec Scott Henderson et Steve Smith). Il participe à l'album Extraction (avec Greg Howe et Dennis Chambers), et le saxophoniste Bill Evans. Il a également souvent été en tournée avec d'autres groupes comme le Dave Matthews Band. Il a également participé en 2008 au SMV, un trio qu'il compose avec les bassistes Stanley Clarke et Marcus Miller, accompagnés par quelque musiciens renommés tels que Chick Corea et Poogie Bell.

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Victor Lemonte Wooten (born September 11, 1964) is an American bassist, songwriter, and record producer. He has been the bassist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones since the group's formation in 1988 and a member of the bass supergroup SMV (2008–2009) with two other bassists, Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller. From 2017 to 2019, he recorded as the bassist for the metal band Nitro.

He owns Vix Records which releases his albums. He wrote the novel The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music. He later released the book's sequel, The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues, on February 2, 2021.

Wooten is the recipient of five Grammy Awards. He won the Bass Player of the Year award from Bass Player magazine three times and is the first person to win the award more than once. In 2011, he was ranked No. 10 in the Top 10 Bassists of All Time by readers of Rolling Stone magazine.

In 2018–2019, Wooten was diagnosed with focal dystonia, a rare neurological condition, in his hands and upper body, which had been limiting his ability to play in previous years, but has since abated somewhat.

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