Victor Louis Goines is a saxophonist born on August 06, 1961 in Louisiana. He has had a successful career in jazz music, and has achieved a net worth of $1 million. He has also been featured in many biographies and has a height of 5'9". Goines has been married since 1988 and has two children. He continues to perform and teach music, and is an inspiration to many aspiring jazz musicians.
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💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M
Jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, bandleader and composer and director of jazz studies at Northwestern University. He has 800 followers on Twitter and 3,000 on Instagram.
He was born and raised in New Orleans and started studying the clarinet at eight. He received his bachelor of music education from Loyola University in 1984, and his master of music from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1990.
He's been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1993. He has toured throughout the world. He appears on Marsalis' Pulitzer Prize-winning recording Blood on the Fields and The Ever Fonky Lowdown. In addition to all the jazz legends he's played with, he's also played with Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, BB King, Diana Ross, and Stevie Wonder.
His father is a retired police officer, and two of his brothers are police officers in New Orleans.
Goines has been friends with Wynton Marsalis since he was a kid, and studied with Marsalis' father Ellis Marsalis Jr. And when he heard a recording of John Coltrane playing sax on "Countdown," "that," said Goines in an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "was a motivation for me."
