L. Shankar
L. Shankar ( Lakshminarayana Shankar, born April 26, 1950 in Madras) is an Indian violinist and composer.
Life
Shankar grew up in Ceylon, where his father V. Lakshminarayana, a trained classical South Indian music violinist and singer, at the Music College of Jaffna taught. He learned to play the violin and came first at the age of seven years in a Ceylonese temple publicly.
After he had been with for several years various Indian singer, he founded with his brothers L. Vaidyanathan and L. Subramaniam a trio that occurred throughout India. In 1969 he went to the USA where he studied ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University.
There he met jazz musicians like Ornette Coleman, Jimmy Garrison, and John McLaughlin know. With McLaughlin 1975 he founded the group Shakti, one of the early groups in which Eastern and Western musical traditions came together. It created three albums of fundamental importance: Shakti (1975 ), Handful of Beauty ( 1976) and Natural Elements (1977).
After the dissolution of the band, he was a short time violinist Frank Zappa and then formed the group The Epidemics and released a series of albums as a bandleader. With Peter Gabriel, he wrote the soundtrack for the film The Last Temptation of Christ (1989 ), for which he won a Grammy. In the following years, he worked on several albums Gabriel. Since 1996 he has worked with the violinist Gingger as a duo Shankar & Gingger.
In addition, Shankar also performed with Elton John, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, Yoko Ono, Stewart Copeland, John Waite, Steve Vai, Ginger Baker, Nils Lofgren, Sting and Peter Gabriel.
Discography
- Indian Composer
- Interpreter of classical Indian music
- Violinist
- Fusion musicians
- Person ( Chennai)
- Born in 1950
- Man