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The most famous ‘Indian’ on 1950s American TV The Times of India 2015-10-04 Malini Nair Korla Pandit was the first African American to have a TV show to himself – by pretending to be an exotic Indian musician The story is almost unbelievable. In the US of the 1940s, a light-skinned African American youth discovers…
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New Documentary Reveals the Strange Life of Korla Pandit NBC Bay Area (KNTV) San Jose, California 2015-08-27 In the category of unusual entertainers, there are few who could hold a candle to Korla Pandit. And now a new documentary will feature his life. Joe Rosato Jr. reports.
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The few old schoolmates who ran into him had to pretend they’d never met. He was often seen around town with one of his best friends. the Indian-born actor Sabu, an alliance that brings to mind the “arranged” Hollywood marriage of a closeted gay actor. Black novelist Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars, about a…
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Korla Appleberry Pictures San Rafael, California April 2005 A Film by John Turner & Eric Christensen Korla Pandit was a spiritual seeker, a television pioneer and the godfather of exotica music. Known for his hypnotic gaze, Korla captured the hearts of countless Los Angeles housewives in the 50s with his live television program that featured…
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To consider the life of Korla Pandit—and that’s what I will call him because that is who he became—is to consider the weight of wearing a mask for 50 years. It is to grasp the fear of exposure, of a revelation that would have killed his career. One slip and he would have gone from…
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He was a handsome holy man, an organ virtuoso, a star from the East. Korla Pandit mesmerized generations–while keeping a secret until his dying day
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How a Black Man From Missouri Transformed Himself Into the Indian Liberace The New Republic 2015-09-12 Liesl Bradner Photo: John Turner Before Liberace, there was Korla Pandit. He was a pianist from New Delhi, India, and dazzled national audiences in the 1950s with his unique keyboard skills and exotic compositions on the Hammond B3 organ.…