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Ananda Shankar
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Legendary Indian fusionist composer/musician
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67 years old
Almora
India
Last Login: 4/10/2007
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| Status: | Married | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Almora, India | | Body type: | Some extra baggage | | Ethnicity: | Asian | | Zodiac Sign: | Sagittarius | | Occupation: | Musician |
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"I have had a dream to try to combine Western and Indian music into a new form, a music which has no particular name but is melodious and touching, and which combines the most modern electronic devices with the old traditional instrument, the sitar" - Ananda Shankar, 1970.
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I was born in 1942 into a musical family. My father was the famous Indian dancer and choreographer Uday Shankar who brought his dance troupe to the West in the 1930s. My mother Amala was also a great dancer and my uncle is the world-renowned sitarist Ravi Shankar.
I spent five years in intensive sitar study under Dr. Lalmani Mishra of Benares Hindu University. I then travelled to Los Angeles where I hooked up with many great musicians including Jimi Hendrix. I made a record there which became a psychedelic cult classic.
I then returned to India in the early 1970s and set up my own orchestra to create and perform a new musical synthesis of Eastern and Western music, combining traditional instruments with electronic synthesizers.
I have received many awards including a National Award for the score for the Mrinal Sen film "Chorus". My orchestra also incorporated a dance troupe which was choreographed by my wife Tanusree.
Unfortunately, I moved on to another place in 1999.
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