NAME: MICHAEL PETER BALZARY

BORN: OCTOBER 16^TH 1962 MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA

HEIGHT: APPROXIMATLY 5' 9"

WEIGHT: UNKNOWN

EYES: BLUE

HAIR: IT ALL DEPENDS WHEN YOU SEE IT

INFLUENCES: JIMI HENDRIX, MILES DAVIS, ORNETTE COLEMAN, DEFUNKT, FUNKADELIC, THE METERS, JAMES BROWN

MISC. NOTES: STARTED PLAYING DRUMS THEN SWITCHED TO TRUMPET. MOVED WITH HIS FAMILY TO L.A. IN '72. MARRIED HIS GIRLFRIEND LOESCHA IN THE SUMMER OF '86. HER NAME IS TATTOOED ABOVE FLEA'S LEFT NIPPLE. THEY HAD A DAUGHTER, CLARA . THEY PARTED DURING THE RECORDING OF MOTHERS MILK. THEN THEY WERE DIVORCED IN '90. HE PLAYS A SIGNATURE MODEL BASS BY MODULUS GUITARS, CALLED THE FLEA-BASS. FLEA WAS THE BASE PLAYER OF THE YEAR IN '96.

MOVIES: FLEA APPEARS IN THE MOVIES SUBURBIA, THRASHIN', STRANDED, BLUE IGUANA, BACK TO THE FUTURE II AND III, LET'S GET LOST, MY PRIVATE IDAHO, MOTORAMA, ROADSIDE PROPHETS, DEMOLITION MAN, WILD SIDE, THE SON IN LAW, JUST YOUR LUCK, AND THE YET UNRELEASED FILM BY THE COEN BROS., THE BIG LEBOWSKI.