Flea's Solo Jazz Album 'Honora' Marks Return to Childhood Musical Roots

Flea experienced childhood domestic violence and substance abuse, including heroin use, which he overcame through music and personal discipline.

Michael Balzary — known as Flea — has spent more than four decades channeling childhood wounds into the kinetic fury of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but his first solo album, 'Honora,' reaches further back still, to the jazz that first cracked open his young mind before the streets, the substances, and the stadiums intervened. Released now in his sixties, the record is less a departure than a homecoming — a man returning, with hard-won clarity, to the sound that first taught him that pain could be transmuted into something luminous. It is a quiet testament to the long arc of healing, and to musi

Flea's Solo Jazz Album 'Honora' Marks Return to Childhood Musical Roots

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