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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --><br />
| name = L. Shankar<br />
| image = L Shankar.jpg<br />
| caption = Shankar in 1978<br />
| background = solo_singer<br />
| birth_name = Lakshminarayana Shankar<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|04|26|df=yes}}<br />
| origin = [[Ceylon]] <small>(current-day Sri Lanka)</small><br />
| birth_place = [[Madras]], India<br />
| genre = {{hlist|[[Pop music|Pop]]|[[rock music|rock]]|[[Indian classical music|Indian classical]]|[[world music]]}}<br />
| occupation = {{hlist|Musician|composer|producer}}<br />
| instrument = {{hlist|Violin|keyboards|vocals}}<br />
| years_active = 1972–present<br />
| label = {{hlist|[[Cleopatra Records|Cleopatra]]|[[Purple Pyramid Records|Purple Pyramid]]}}<br />
| associated_acts = {{hlist|[[Shakti (band)|Shakti]]|[[Frank Zappa]]|[[Peter Gabriel]]}}<br />
| website = {{url|lshankar.com}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''Lakshminarayana Shankar''' (born 26 April 1950),<ref name="LarkinJazz">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-580-8|page=356}}</ref> better known as '''L. Shankar''', '''Shankar''' and '''Shenkar''', is an Indian [[violin]]ist, singer and composer.<br />
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==Early life, family and education==<br />
Shankar was born in [[Madras]], India,<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> and raised in [[Ceylon]] (current-day Sri Lanka), where his father [[V. Lakshminarayana]], a violinist and singer, worked as a teacher at the [[Jaffna]] College of Music.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=L. Shankar - Singer, Violinist, Composer, and Producer |url= http://lshankar.com/|access-date=2020-11-21|website=lshankar.com}}</ref> He learned to play the violin and first performed in public in a Ceylonese temple at the age of seven.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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In 1969, he went to the United States, where he studied [[ethnomusicology]] at [[Wesleyan University]].<ref name="LarkinJazz"/><br />
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==Career==<br />
After performing with various Indian singers for several years, Shankar founded a trio with his brothers, L. Vaidyanathan and L. Subramaniam, that performed throughout India. <br />
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While attending college at Wesleyan University, he met jazz musicians like [[Ornette Coleman]], [[Jimmy Garrison]], and [[John McLaughlin (musician)|John McLaughlin]].<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> With McLaughlin, Shankar founded the group [[Shakti (band)|Shakti]] in 1975, one of the early groups in which Eastern and Western musical traditions met.<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> They released three albums: ''[[Shakti (Shakti album)|Shakti]]'' (1975), ''[[A Handful of Beauty]]'' (1976), and ''[[Natural Elements (Shakti album)|Natural Elements]]'' (1977).<br />
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After the band dissolved, Shankar was a violinist with [[Frank Zappa]] for a short time, and then founded the group The Epidemics and released a number of albums as a band leader.<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> With [[Peter Gabriel]], he wrote the soundtrack for the film ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ (film)|The Last Temptation of Christ]]'' (1989),<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> for which he received a [[Grammy Award]]. In the following years, Shankar worked on several of Gabriel's albums. Since 1996, he has been working with the violinist Gingger as the duo Shankar & Gingger.<br />
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Shankar has also performed with [[Elton John]], [[Eric Clapton]], [[Phil Collins]], [[Bruce Springsteen]], [[Van Morrison]], [[Yoko Ono]], [[Stewart Copeland]], [[John Waite]], [[Charly García]], [[Steve Vai]], [[Ginger Baker]], [[Nils Lofgren]], [[Jonathan Davis]] and The SFA and [[Sting (musician)|Sting]].<br />
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==Discography==<br />
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* ''[[Shakti (Shakti album)|Shakti]]'', with [[Shakti (band)|Shakti]] (1975)<br />
* ''[[A Handful of Beauty]]'', with Shakti (1976)<br />
* ''[[Natural Elements (Shakti album)|Natural Elements]]'', with Shakti (1977)<br />
* ''[[Touch Me There]]'' (1979)<br />
* ''[[Who's to Know]]'' (1980)<br />
* ''[[Vision (Shankar album)|Vision]]'' (1983)<br />
* ''[[Song for Everyone]]'' (1985)<br />
* ''[[The Epidemics]]'' (1986)<br />
* ''Evening Concert'' (1986)<br />
* ''Do What You Do (''1986'') ''<br />
* ''Eye Catcher (''1987'') ''<br />
* ''Pancha Nadai Pallavi'' (1989)<br />
* ''M.R.C.S'' (1989)<br />
* ''Nobody Told Me'' (1990)<br />
* ''Soul Searcher'' (1990)<br />
* ''Raga Aberi'' (1995)<br />
* ''Enlightenment (''1999'') ''<br />
* ''Live in London, Vol. 1'' (2000)<br />
* ''Eternal Light'' (2000)<br />
* ''One in a Million'', with [[Gingger Shankar]] (2001)<br />
* ''Celestial Body'' (2004)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/celestial-body-mw0000476551|title=Celestial Body - Lakshminarayana Shankar &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref><br />
* ''Open the Door'' (2007)<br />
* ''In a Box'' (2012)<br />
* ''The Revelation'' (2013)<br />
* ''Champion'' (2014)<br />
* ''Transcend'' (2015)<br />
* ''Face to Face'' (2019)<br />
* ''Chepleeri Dream'' (2020)<br />
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==Filmography==<br />
* ''Bombay Jazz'' (1992, documentary)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03qzz41|title=BBC World Service - The Documentary, Bombay Jazz|website=BBC|access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bluerhythm.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/bombay-and-jazz-a-documentary-1992/|title=Bombay and Jazz – A documentary 1992|website=Bluerhythm.wordpress.com|date=12 June 2011}}</ref><br />
* ''[[Secret World Live (film)|Secret World Live]]'' (1994) (violin, backing vocals)<br />
* ''[[Heroes (U.S. TV series)|Heroes]]'' (2006–2009, TV series) (vocals)<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://lshankar.com Official website]<br />
*[http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/mclaughlin/art/shankar.html Article from ''DownBeat'' magazine (1978)]<br />
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