1. Shankar Tucker rose to fame with the popularity of his YouTube music channel "The ShrutiBox".
12 Facts About Shankar Tucker
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Shankar Tucker was born as Ambrose Tucker to sculptor William G Tucker, and his artist wife, Pamela "Kamini" Avril.
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Shankar Tucker started to learn classical clarinet at age 10.
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Shankar Tucker attended the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School.
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Shankar Tucker earned a scholarship to the New England Conservatory of Music in 2006 from an appearance on From the Top, the nationally syndicated youth radio show.
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Shankar Tucker became deeply interested in improvisation, both in jazz and classical Indian music, while he continued to study and perform Western classical music at such venues as Symphony Hall, Boston and Jordan Hall.
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Shankar Tucker was accepted as a student by the world-famous Hindustani flute player Hariprasad Chaurasia at his Vrindaban Gurukul in Mumbai in the summer of 2010.
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Shankar Tucker recorded an album of his fusion compositions entitled Uplift, which was premiered on Amma's 2009 US tour.
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Shankar Tucker's ensemble has had the distinction of performing at the White House Diwali function of 2012, hosted by Vice President Joe Biden.
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Shankar Tucker was featured in articles in The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, and The Hindu.
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Shankar Tucker himself plays a wide range of instruments in his recordings: piano, bass, kanjira, tabla, and other percussion instruments.
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Shankar Tucker was an invited speaker at TEDxGateway conference in Mumbai and TEDxCEG in Chennai.