Lakshmi Shankar
Sister-in-law to Ravi Shankar, mother-in-law to L. Subramaniam, Lakshmi Shankar is a remarkable singer. As a young girl she fell under the spell of dance and, encouraged by her forward-thinking mother, she studied Bharat Natyam dancing. She married the scriptwriter Rajendra Shankar, an elder brother of Ravi Shankar, and joined Uday Shankar's artistic circle during the early '40s. Ill-health forced her to give up dancing but, for us, this had the joyful effect of catalyzing her singing career. 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 book." In the 1960s she recorded an album called The Voice of Lakshmi Shankar for World Pacific. Since then she has recorded widely in varying capacities and styles including Tamil folk songs, Hindu devotional songs of all sorts, film work (including the soundtrack to Gandhi) and for television documentaries. Her work appears on many labels including EMI India and RCA.
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Discography
18 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Inde du Nord - North India: Season and Time / Les heures et les saisons (Collection Ocora Radio-France)
World - Released by Ocora Radio-France on 1 Jan 2001
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Shringar: The Many Moods of Love - Volume 3
World - Released by Music Today on 14 Mar 2006
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Songs of Devotion
World - Released by Naïve Jazz - world on 1 Jan 1990
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Dancing in the Light (Lakshmi Shankar)
Asia - Released by world village on 10 Jun 2008
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Evening Concert
Lakshmi Shankar, Viji Subramaniam, Shyam Kane
World - Released by Delos on 1 Jan 1986
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Live in London, Vol. 1
World - Released by Navras Records Ltd on 3 Dec 1992
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Songs Of The Season Vol. 3
World - Released by Music Today on 1 Jan 1993
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Songs Of The Seasons Volume 3
World - Released by Living Music India Ltd on 1 Jan 1993
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A Life Of Dedication
World - Released by Navras Records on 1 Jul 2006
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Ampel'a (NorDar)
Lakshmi Shankar, Nor Dar, Marc Johnson
Miscellaneous - Released by Jet Plak Kaset on 30 Nov 2000
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Jadoo Bharey Torey Nain - The Many Moods of Love
World - Released by Living Media India Ltd. on 9 Jun 2023
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Under The Poetree
Children - Released by Lakshmi Shankar on 7 Dec 2023
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