Lakshmi Shankar

   
Artist: Lakshmi Shankar

   Genre(s): 
Easy Listening
   Other
   Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Live In London September 1992

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 3


   
 Songs of Devotion

   Year:    
Tracks: 7


   
 Les Heures et les Saisons

   Year:    
Tracks: 6


   
 Amrut Ras

   Year:    
Tracks: 8

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Sister-in-law to Ravi Shankar, mother-in-law to L. Subramaniam, Lakshmi Shankar is a remarkable singer. As a whitney Moore Young Jr. daughter she felled seam below the spell of dancing and, encouraged by her forward-thinking mother, she studied Bharat Natyam saltation. She married the scriptwriter Rajendra Shankar, an elder buddy of Ravi Shankar, and linked Uday Shankar's artistic circle during the early '40s. Ill-health forced her to give up saltation only, for us, this had the joyful event of catalyzing her tattle life history. Around 1946-47 she worked on the historic adaptation of Pandit Nehru's Discovery of India, a work that prompted Nehru to say, "The ballet's better than my rule book." In the 1960s she recorded an album called The Voice of Lakshmi Shankar for World Pacific. Since then she has recorded widely in variable capacities and styles including Tamil folk songs, Hindu devotional songs of all sorts, photographic film work (including the soundtrack to Gandhi) and for boob tube documentaries. Her work appears on many labels including EMI India and RCA.