Shankar Family & Friends has been played on NTS in shows including Tom Furse, featured first on 15 January 2017. Songs played include Love-Dance Ecstasy, Supané Mé Āyé Preetam Sainyā and Lust.

Lakshminarayanan Shankar (born April 26, 1950), also known as L. Shankar, Shankar or Shenkar, is a violinist, vocalist and composer.

Early life L. Shankar was born in Madras, Tamil Nadu. Growing up in Jaffna, Ceylon, where his father V. Lakshminarayan was a professor at the Jaffna College of Music, Shankar was exposed to Carnatic music and other styles from an early age. His father was an esteemed violinist, his mother L. Seethalakshmi played the veena…