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- March(02:27)
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- [untitled](13:20)
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- Raga Aberi(05:48)
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- Soul Searcher(50:36)
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- Adagio(02:03)
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- All I Care(06:23)
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- All for You(06:36)
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- Vision(13:45)
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Shankar bio
Lakshminarayana Shankar (born April 26, 1950), or L. Shankar, was born in Madras, South India. Growing up in Sri Lanka where his father V. Lakshminaraya Iyer was a professor at the Jaffna College of Music, Shankar was exposed to Carnatic music from an early age. His father was an esteemed violinist, his mother L. Seethalakshmi played the veena and all his five older siblings were also proficient i... n music. At the age of seven he gave his first public concert. He gained considerable reputation in his early youth as an accompanist to some of the most eminent names in Carnatic music such as Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Chembai Vaithyanatha Baghavatar, Palghat Mani Iyer and Alathur Srinivasa lyer. Following the ethnic riots of 1953 his family moved back to India.
After obtaining a bachelor's degree in physics in India, Shankar moved to America in 1969 and earned a doctorate in ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University, where he met jazz musicians like Ornette Coleman, Jimmy Garrison, and John McLaughlin while working as a teaching assistant and concert master of the university chamber orchestra. In 1975 Shankar and McLaughlin founded Shakti pioneering a groundbreaking and high Full bioRead more
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