It felt nice inside when I came across this write-up on the BBC about Patrick Ngcobo, a South African who came down passionate about South India's classical music and learnt music from Yesudas. [article]
As a child growing up in Calicut, I remember being amazed along with many friends, neighbours and elders, by a musician called Isabella Clinquart (I forget the spelling, I was very little) who performed an hour long carnatic music concert at the annual Tyagaraja Aradhana. Wonder what became of her.
John Higgins has to be one of the most well known and most loved of all non-Indian musicians who learnt and performed carnatic music with so much commitment. (He was born in Masachussets, US, and not in England like I had earlier thought.) I still try and close my eyes when I listen to him. The accent is hardly discernable.
Remarkable people.
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