L. Shankar, the Glossary
Shankar Lakshminarayana (born 26 April 1950), better known as L. Shankar, is an Indian violinist, singer and composer who also goes by the stage name Shenkar.[1]
Table of Contents
103 relations: A Handful of Beauty, Aïyb Dieng, AllMusic, Archie Shepp, Attica Blues (album), Bill Laswell, Billboard charts, Bruce Springsteen, Carnatic music, Charly García, Chennai, Cleopatra Records, Clifford Thornton, Colin Larkin, Communications Network (album), ECM Records, Electric Dreams (John McLaughlin album), Electronic dance music, Elton John, EMI, Eric Clapton, Ethnomusicology, Face Value (album), Fernando Saunders, Frank Zappa, Ginger Baker, Gingger Shankar, GMA Dove Award, Grammy Awards, Guinness World Records, Heroes (American TV series), Hindustani classical music, India, Indian classical music, Jack Lenz, Jazz fusion, Jean-Luc Ponty, John Debney, John McLaughlin (musician), John Waite, Jonathan Davis, Jonathan Davis and the SFA, Ken Parker (guitar maker), L. Subramaniam, L. Vaidyanathan, Larry Coryell, Luz Anjaneya Temple, Martin Scorsese, Mel Gibson, Music of Heroes, ... Expand index (53 more) »
- Indian rock musicians
- Jonathan Davis and the SFA members
- SXL (band) members
- Shakti (band) members
A Handful of Beauty
A Handful of Beauty is the first studio album released by the world fusion band Shakti in 1976.
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Aïyb Dieng
Aïyb Dieng is a Senegalese drummer and percussionist specializing in hand drums. L. Shankar and Aïyb Dieng are SXL (band) members.
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist, educator and playwright who since the 1960s has played a central part in the development of avant-garde jazz.
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Attica Blues (album)
Attica Blues is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp.
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Bill Laswell
William Otis Laswell (born February 12, 1955) is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and record label owner. L. Shankar and Bill Laswell are SXL (band) members.
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Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere.
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
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Carnatic music
Carnatic music, known as or in the South Indian languages, is a system of music commonly associated with South India, including the modern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. L. Shankar and Carnatic music are Carnatic violinists.
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Charly García
Carlos Alberto García Moreno (born October 23, 1951), better known by his stage name Charly García, is an Argentine singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and record producer, considered one of the most important and avant-garde figures of Argentine and Latin American music.
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Chennai
Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.
Cleopatra Records
Cleopatra Records is a Los Angeles-based independent record label that has the sub-labels Hypnotic Records, Goldenlane, Stardust, Purple Pyramid, Deadline and X-Ray Records.
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Clifford Thornton
Clifford Edward Thornton III (September 6, 1936 – November 25, 1989) was an American jazz trumpeter, trombonist, political activist, and educator.
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Colin Larkin
Colin Larkin (born 1949) is a British music writer.
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Communications Network (album)
Communications Network is a live album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Clifford Thornton.
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ECM Records
ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is an independent record label founded by Karl Egger, Manfred Eicher and Manfred Scheffner in Munich in 1969.
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Electric Dreams (John McLaughlin album)
Electric Dreams is the fifth solo album by English jazz guitarist John McLaughlin and his "One Truth Band" (featuring violinist L. Shankar, keyboardist Stu Goldberg, bassist Fernando Saunders, percussionist Alyrio Lima and drummer Tony “Thunder” Smith) released in 1979.
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Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, songwriter and pianist.
EMI
EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.
Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton (born 1945) is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
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Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos ‘nation’ and μουσική mousike ‘music’) is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context, investigating social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions involved other than sound. Ethnomusicologists study music as a reflection of culture and investigate the act of musicking through various immersive, observational, and analytical approaches drawn from other disciplines such as anthropology to understand a culture’s music.
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Face Value (album)
Face Value is the debut solo studio album by English drummer and singer-songwriter Phil Collins, released on 13 February 1981 by Virgin Records.
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Fernando Saunders
Fernando Saunders is an American musician, singer and record producer from Detroit, Michigan.
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Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader.
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Ginger Baker
Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (19 August 1939 – 6 October 2019) was an English drummer.
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Gingger Shankar
Gingger Shankar is an American singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. L. Shankar and Gingger Shankar are Tamil musicians.
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GMA Dove Award
A Dove Award is an accolade by the Gospel Music Association (GMA) of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the Christian music industry.
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Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.
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Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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Heroes (American TV series)
Heroes is an American superhero drama television series created by Tim Kring that aired on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006, to February 8, 2010.
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Hindustani classical music
Hindustani classical music is the classical music of the Indian subcontinent's northern regions.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indian classical music
Indian Classical Music is the classical music of the Indian Subcontinent.
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Jack Lenz
John Frederick "Jack" Lenz is a Canadian composer.
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion, jazz rock, and jazz-rock fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues.
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Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) is a French jazz and jazz fusion violinist and composer.
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John Debney
John Cardon Debney (born August 18, 1956) is an American composer and conductor of film, television, and video game scores.
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John McLaughlin (musician)
John McLaughlin (born 4 January 1942), also known as Mahavishnu, is an English guitarist, bandleader, and composer. L. Shankar and John McLaughlin (musician) are Shakti (band) members.
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John Waite
John Charles Waite (born 4 July 1952) is a British rock singer and musician.
Jonathan Davis
Jonathan Howsmon Davis (born January 18, 1971), also known as JD, is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. L. Shankar and Jonathan Davis are Jonathan Davis and the SFA members.
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Jonathan Davis and the SFA
Jonathan Davis and the SFA (Simply Fucking Amazings) was an American alternative rock band, formed as a side project for Korn frontman Jonathan Davis.
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Ken Parker (guitar maker)
Ken Parker is an American luthier known for his unique archtop guitars and the Parker Fly electric guitar which came out in 1993.
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L. Subramaniam
Subramaniam Lakshminarayana (born 23 July 1947) is an Indian violinist, composer and conductor, trained in the classical Carnatic music tradition and Western classical music. L. Shankar and L. Subramaniam are 21st-century violinists, Carnatic violinists and Tamil musicians.
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L. Vaidyanathan
Lakshminarayana Vaidyanathan (லக்ஷ்மிநாராயண வைத்தியநாதன்; ಎಲ್.ವೈದ್ಯನಾಥನ್; 9 April 1942 – 19 May 2007) was an acclaimed musicologist, music director and composer, trained in the classical Carnatic music tradition. L. Shankar and L. Vaidyanathan are Tamil musicians.
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Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell (born Lorenz Albert Van DeLinder III; April 2, 1943 – February 19, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist.
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Luz Anjaneya Temple
The Mylapore Anjaneyar Devasthanam, commonly known as the Luz Anjaneya Temple, is the oldest temple of Hanuman in the city of Chennai, India.
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American filmmaker.
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Mel Gibson
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an American actor and film director.
Music of Heroes
The music of the Heroes television series was composed by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman of the duo, Wendy & Lisa.
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Natural Elements (Shakti album)
Natural Elements is a studio album by the world fusion band Shakti.
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Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
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New Age
New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s.
Nils Lofgren
Nils Hilmer Lofgren (born June 21, 1951) is an American rock musician, recording artist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
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Passion (Peter Gabriel album)
Passion (re-released as Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ) is an album released in 1989 by the English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel.
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Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter and human rights activist.
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Phil Collins
Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor.
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Phil Palmer
Philip John Palmer (born 9 September 1952) is a British rock sideman and session guitarist who has toured, recorded, and worked with numerous artists.
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Pop rock
Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre and form of rock music characterized by a strong commercial appeal, with more emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than standard rock music.
Progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s.
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Queen of the Damned
Queen of the Damned is a 2002 horror film directed by Michael Rymer from a screenplay by Scott Abbott and Michael Petroni, and based on the 1988 novel The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice, the third novel of the book series The Vampire Chronicles, although the film contains many plot elements from the novel's 1985 predecessor, The Vampire Lestat.
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Raga Aberi
Raga Aberi is an album by the Indian musician L. Shankar, released in 1995.
Ranker
Ranker.com is a website that features polls on entertainment, brands, sports, food, and culture.
Remember Shakti
Remember Shakti is a quintet which combines elements of traditional Indian music with elements of jazz.
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Richard Gibbs
Richard "Ribbs" Gibbs (born December 5, 1955) is an American film composer and music producer whose credits include Dr. Dolittle, Big Momma's House, Queen of the Damned, the television series Battlestar Galactica and the first season of The Simpsons.
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Rock music
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Ronald Shannon Jackson (January 12, 1940 – October 19, 2013) was an American jazz drummer from Fort Worth, Texas. L. Shankar and Ronald Shannon Jackson are SXL (band) members.
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Samul nori
() is a genre of Korean percussion music.
Secret World Live (film)
Secret World Live is a film filmed in two Peter Gabriel concerts in 1993, as part of his Secret World Tour to support his sixth solo album, Us.
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Secret World Tour
Secret World Tour was a 1993–94 concert tour mounted by British singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel to promote his 1992 album Us.
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Shakti (band)
Shakti is a fusion band formed by English guitarist John McLaughlin, Indian violin player L. Shankar, percussionists Zakir Hussain (on tabla) and T. H. "Vikku" Vinayakram (on Ghatam) in 1973, initially under the stage name "Turiyananda Sangit" (which translates in English to "The pinnacle delight in music").
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Shakti (Shakti album)
Shakti with John McLaughlin is the first album by Shakti, described as "another brain blowing achievement" by Agha Yasir.
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Simon Phillips (drummer)
Simon Phillips (born 6 February 1957) is an English jazz fusion and rock drummer, songwriter, and record producer, based in the United States.
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Song for Everyone
Song for Everyone is an album by Indian violinist L. Shankar recorded in September 1984 and released on ECM the following year.
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Sri Chinmoy
Chinmoy Kumar Ghose (27 August 1931 – 11 October 2007), better known as Sri Chinmoy, was an Indian spiritual leader who taught meditation in the United States after moving to New York City in 1964.
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Stage name
A stage name or professional name is a pseudonym used by performers, authors, and entertainers—such as actors, comedians, singers, and musicians.
Steve Vai
Steven Siro Vai (born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer.
Stewart Copeland
Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician and composer.
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Sting (musician)
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known professionally as Sting, is an English musician, activist and actor.
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Stu Goldberg
Stuart Wayne "Stu" Goldberg (born July 10, 1954 in Malden, Massachusetts) is an American jazz keyboardist.
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SXL (band)
SXL was a jazz fusion ensemble, formed in 1987 by composer Bill Laswell.
SXL Live in Japan
SXL Live in Japan is a live performance album by world music and jazz fusion ensemble SXL, released in 1987 by CBS/Sony Japan.
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T. H. Vinayakram
Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram (born 11 August 1942), also known as Vikku Vinayakram, is an Indian percussionist. L. Shankar and T. H. Vinayakram are Shakti (band) members.
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.
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The Epidemics
The Epidemics is an album by Indian violinist L. Shankar and British vocalist, keyboardist and composer Caroline recorded in February 1985 and released on ECM the following year.
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The Last Temptation of Christ (film)
The Last Temptation of Christ is a 1988 epic religious drama film directed by Martin Scorsese.
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The Orchard (company)
The Orchard Enterprises NY, Inc., doing business as The Orchard (also known as The Orchard Music), is an American music and entertainment company, specializing in media distribution.
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The Passion of the Christ (soundtrack)
The Passion of the Christ is the soundtrack, on the Sony label, of the 2004 Academy Award-nominated film The Passion of the Christ starring James Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern and Monica Bellucci.
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Touch Me There
Touch Me There is the debut solo album by L. Shankar, released in 1979 on Zappa Records.
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V. Lakshminarayana
V. L. Shankar and V. Lakshminarayana are Indian violinists.
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Van Morrison
Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Northern Ireland whose recording career spans seven decades.
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Violin
The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.
Vision (Shankar album)
Vision is an album by Indian violinist L. Shankar recorded in April 1983 and released by ECM in 1984.
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Wendy & Lisa
Wendy & Lisa (briefly known as Girl Bros.) is a music duo consisting of Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman.
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Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut, United States.
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Who's to Know
Who's to Know is the second studio album by violinist Shankar, recorded in November 1980 and released on ECM the following year.
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World music
"World music" is an English phrase for styles of music from non-Western countries, including quasi-traditional, intercultural, and traditional music.
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World of Music, Arts and Dance
WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) is an international arts festival.
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Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono (Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana オノ・ヨーコ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist.
Zakir Hussain (musician)
Zakir Hussain (born 9 March 1951) is an Indian tabla player, composer, percussionist, music producer and film actor. L. Shankar and Zakir Hussain (musician) are jazz fusion musicians and Shakti (band) members.
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Zappa Records
Zappa Records is an American record label based in Los Angeles which was founded by Frank Zappa in 1977.
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1958 anti-Tamil pogrom
The 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom and riots in Ceylon, also known as the 58 riots, refer to the first island-wide ethnic riots and pogrom to target the minority Tamils in the Dominion of Ceylon after it became an independent dominion from Britain in 1948.
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36th GMA Dove Awards
The 36th Annual GMA Dove Awards, also called the 36th Annual GMA Music Awards, were held on April 13, 2005 recognizing accomplishments of musicians for the year 2004.
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See also
Indian rock musicians
- Amit Saigal
- Bharat Swamy
- Bif Naked
- Darshan Doshi
- Digvijay Bhonsale
- Jaimin Rajani
- Kapil Srivastava
- Kunal Datta (musician)
- L. Shankar
- Lou Majaw
- Nandu Bhende
- Prakash John
- Prithibi
- Rahul Ram
- Ramana Gogula
- Remo Fernandes
- Shruti Haasan
Jonathan Davis and the SFA members
- Jonathan Davis
- L. Shankar
- Michael Jochum
- Miles Mosley
- Ray Luzier
- Shane Gibson (musician)
- Wes Borland
- Zac Baird
SXL (band) members
- Aïyb Dieng
- Bill Laswell
- L. Shankar
- Ronald Shannon Jackson
Shakti (band) members
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Shankar
Also known as El shankar, El shenkar, L shankar, L shenkar, L. shenkar, Lakshminarayana Shankar.
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