Louis Banks was born on Dambar Bahadur Budaprithi on 11 February 1941 and is an Indian film composer, record producer, keyboardist, and singer.
17 Facts About Louis Banks
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Louis Banks has often been referred to as the 'Godfather of Indian jazz'.
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Louis Banks was born to Nepali parents Saraswati and Pushkal Budaprithi, a musician, at Calcutta and grew up in his hometown of Darjeeling.
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Louis Banks did his schooling at St Roberts School, Darjeeling.
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Louis Banks started receiving piano lessons from his father and played in his band.
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Louis Banks went to college at St Joseph's College in Darjeeling, where he continued to study piano.
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In 1977, Banks approached R D Burman, who was a frequent visitor to the Blue Fox Restaurant and asked Burman to let him join his troupe in Mumbai, Burman happily took him in.
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In Mumbai, Louis Banks was introduced to different world music genres and he was able to thrive in the rich music scene.
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Louis Banks formed a group called Sangam teaming up with Carnatic classical vocalist, Ramamani and together they performed about 60 concerts all over Europe and participated in festivals, the group however was short-lived as Ramamani was from Bangalore, while Louis was based in Mumbai and the logistics became too difficult.
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In 2005, Louis Banks formed a group Rhythm Asia with Taufeeq Qureshi on the tabla and Niladri Kumar on the sitar.
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In 1988, Louis Banks composed the tunes to the iconic Mile Sur Mera Tumhara, a short film on national integration for Doordarshan, at that time India's sole broadcaster.
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Louis Banks would go on to provide music to similar patriotic short films like Desh raag and Spread the light of freedom.
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Louis Banks formed a new band called 'Silk' with Shankar Mahadevan, Sivamani and Karl Peters.
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Louis Banks has performed at various concerts and with well-known jazz artists such as Radha Thomas and Joe Alvares.
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Louis Banks provided the score for Roshni a musical, directed by Alyque Padamsee.
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Louis Banks is working on a progressive fusion jazz album titled Labyrinth with his son's band Nexus.
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Gino Louis Banks is an accomplished drummer and member of the fusion band 'Nexus'.