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Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan (7/5/1882 - 2/5/1927)
...Every soul became for me a musical note, and all life became music.... One must put oneself in harmony with oneself.... I played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the only Musician existing. Since then I have become His flute, and when He chooses He plays His music....
At the age of twenty, Hazrat Inayat Khan gave up singing and playing music on the vina to teach people to tune their souls to the music of life. He met and learned from a Sufi teacher who he recognized from his dreams. When his teacher passed on, he left India to become one of the first teachers of Sufism in the West, and founded the Sufi Order in the West (now called the Sufi Order International). (His grandfather, Moula Baksh, founded Gayanshala, which is now the music faculty of the University of Baroda; and his son, Pir Vilayet Inayat Khan, was one of the founders of the Omega Institute.) The days of his birth, death and leaving of India to bring Sufism to the West are still celebrated throughout the world.Quotes from Hazrat Inayat Khan's "The Mysticism of Sound & Music"
Lakshminarayana Shankar (4/26/1950 - )
I am a servant of music. My life is for music. I believe in reincarnation. I know we have lived many lives. I believe that I have been a musician in previous lives, and in fact, I really believe that I have played with Zakir.
L. Shankar cofounded Shakti with guitarist John McLaughlin and Indian percussionists Ustad Zakir Hussain and Sri Thetakudi Harihara "Vikku" Vinayakram in the '70s, and later played with the likes of Frank Zappa, Peter Gabriel and Eric Clapton. In 1980 he invented the ten-stringed, double-necked electric violin, which has the full range of an orchestra. (Ironically, it was built by guitar manufacturer Ken Parker, an opponent of the seven-string guitar who has publicly promised to never build one.)
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