Ananda Shankar

Ananda Shankar

Ananda Shankar (born December 11, 1942 at Almora in Uttar Pradesh, India), a Bengali musician, is renowned for fusing Western with Eastern musical styles. The legendary sitarist, Pandit Ravi Shankar is his uncle. Ananda Shankar was also the son of the popular dancers, Amala and Uday Shankar. He married Tanushree Shankar. He passed away on 26 March 1999.

Education and Musical Career of Ananda Shankar

Ananda Shankar took his lessons in sitar from Dr. Lalmani Misra in Varanasi. He went to Los Angeles in late 1960 and performed with a number of modern musicians that included Jimi Hendrix.

His first self-titled album was released in 1970 after he signed up with Reprise Records. The album featured Indian classical music along with sitar-based cover versions of such popular hits as ‘Jumpin' Jack Flash’ of The Rolling Stones and ‘Light My Fire' of The Doors.

Returning to India in the early 1970s Shankar continued to experiment musically and in 1975 released his most critically acclaimed album, Ananda Shankar And His Music, a jazz-funk mix of Eastern sitar, Western rock guitar, mridangam, tabla, drums and Moog synthesizers. This was re-released on CD in 2005. Into the 1980s, his music became popular in London in the club DJ sets. ‘Dancing Drums’ and ‘Streets Of Calcutta’, two tracks from Ananda Shankar And His Music featured in Blue Juice Vol. 1., a compilation album of Blue Note Record in 1996 that became popular. He began touring in the United Kingdom collaborating with London DJ State of Bengal and others resulting in Walking On released in 2000, after Shankar’s death, with his trademark sitar mixed with hip hop and breakbeat. This was released after his death. Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories soundtrack featured his song Raghupati in 2005.

Important work by Ananda Shankar

Ananda Shankar’s work include Ananda Shankar, 1970 (LP, Reprise 6398), Ananda Shankar, 1970 (CD, Collectors' Choice CCM-545), Ananda Shankar And His Music, 1975 (EMI India) , Missing You, 1977 (EMI India), A Musical Discovery of India, 1978 (EMI India), Sa-Re-Ga Machan, 1981 (EMI India), 2001, 1984 (EMI India), Ananda, 1999 (EMI India), Arpan, 2000 (EMI India), Walking On, 2000 (Real World 48118-2, with State of Bengal), and Ananda Shankar: A Life in Music - The Best of the EMI Years, 2005 (Times Square TSQ-CD-9052).

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