Flea

Flea fascinates me because the chaos is a disguise. The shirtless, slap-happy madman of Red Hot Chili Peppers shows is actually a trumpet kid raised on jazz, disciplined enough to enroll in university music studies in his forties just to patch the gaps in his theory. That humility, coming from a bassist many would call the most influential of his generation, says everything. Add the conservatory he co-founded to teach kids music in Los Angeles, plus a sneaky-good acting resume, and you get my favorite kind of rock star: one who treats fame as a tool for curiosity rather than a destination. Melbourne's greatest export, as far as I am concerned.

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Name (English)

Flea

Name (Japanese)

フリー

Reading

ふりー

Born

October 16, 1962 (age 64)

Origin

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Occupation

bass guitarist / actor / film actor / trumpeter / singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Tiger

High school

Fairfax High School

• Official sitehttps://www.redhotchilipeppers.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/flea333/
• Xhttps://x.com/flea333
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flea%20(musician)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%20(%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202859

Tags

• Victoria
• bass guitarist
• actor
• film actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.