The Limeliters launched their career in 1959 at San Francisco's famous
Hungry I and before long, he, Lou Gottlieb and Glenn Yarbrough, the
founding members, emerged as one of the dominant voices of the early
1960s folk music scene.
Alex Hassilev was born in Paris, France, of Russian parents and was
educated at Harvard and the University of Chicago. He is an
accomplished actor with a number of film and television appearances to
his credit. He is also an unusually gifted musician switching from the
guitar to the banjo with the ease of a master. This, plus his robust
baritone voice are two reasons why The Limeliters, in the words of one
critic "...make the three voices and three instruments sound like
twenty".
He speaks fluent French, Russian and Spanish and has contributed many
foreign language songs to the Limeliters' repertoire. For over thirty
years he has been a successful record producer and songwriter, and
today he continues to produce many of the Limeliters' recordings.