Oteil Burbridge
Oteil Burbridge is an American Grammy Awardwinning multiinstrumentalist, specializing on the bass guitar, trained in playing jazz and classical music from an early age. He has achieved fame primarily on bass guitar during the resurgence of the Allman Brothers Band from 1997 through 2014. He was also a founding member of the band the Aquarium Rescue Unit, and has worked with other musicians who include Bruce Hampton, Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Bill Kreutzmann and The Derek Trucks Band, with whom his brother Kofi Burbridge is the keyboardist and flautist.
Burbridge was born and raised in Washington, D.C., to an African American family with some Egyptian heritage. His name, Oteil, means explorer or wanderer. When he and elder sibling Kofi showed talent for music, their mother encouraged them with classical and jazz courses hoping to nurture their musical inclinations and keep them out of trouble. Kofi remembers Oteils first drum set a Quaker Oatmeal box, when he was only three or four years old. Both brothers were introduced to a wide variety of instruments, and became multiinstrumentalists, with both being taught to play the piano. While Oteil gained proficiency on the bass clarinet, violin, and trumpet. However, Oteils chosen main instruments became the bass guitar and the drums, while Kofi developed a love for the flute, and keyboard instruments. Oteil Burbridge developed an interest in the theater and was the cohost of a local childrens television show called Stuff. Oteil was enrolled in the Sidwell Friends School, a wellknown elite
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