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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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Marcus Miller News )〕 Wooten has also written a novel titled "The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music".〔Salina Journal (2010)〕 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. ==Early life== 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 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 that introduced him to Béla Fleck, with whom he still collaborates musically.〔McDonald, Sam (February 21, 2000) ("High Profile: Victor Wooten" ), Daily Press〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victor Wooten」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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