Joshua David Bell (born 9 December 1967) is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist. Childhood Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, the son of a psychologist and a therapist. Bell's father is the late Alan P. Bell, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Indiana University, in Bloomington, a former Kinsey researcher.[LINK: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/995.html] Joshua Bell to return home for benefit performance. Indiana University Media Relations. Retrieved January 28, 2007. Bell began taking violin lessons at the age of four after his mother discovered her son had taken rubber bands from around the house and stretched them across the handles of his dresser drawer to pluck out music he had heard her play on the piano. His parents got him a scaled-to-size violin for their then five-year-old son and started giving him lessons. A bright student, Bell took t

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