Eric Christensen grew up in San Francisco in the 1950s and remembers his mother, “like a lot of women then, being transfixed by Korla Pandit on television. He wore a jeweled turban and had these ...

In the category of unusual entertainers, there are few who could hold a candle to Korla Pandit. There was the jeweled turban. The hypnotizing gaze into the TV camera. And the exotic organ playing that ...

Marin has been home to some fascinating characters over the decades, but probably no one has been as mysterious and exotic as Korla Pandit, an organ-playing, turban-wearing sex symbol of 1950s daytime ...

It often happens that powerful truths are masked in fiction and illusion. In the case of Korla Pandit, dubbed the “Godfather of Exotica,” pretext defined the subtext of deep personal truths. Sept. 29 ...

Ready to watch 'Soundies Vol 8 The Exotic World of Korla Pandit' on your favorite screen? Here’s where you can watch it, including streaming services and cable providers with rental, purchase, and ...

Exotica icon Korla Pandit was a Hammond organ virtuoso with a signature look: Nehru jackets, smoky eye makeup, and bejeweled turbans. For their intriguing profile, codirectors John Turner and Eric ...

This week on Global Notes we'll spotlight keyboardist Lance Kaufman, an artist who pays homage to Korla Pandit, a man many considered the "Godfather of Exotica" music. In 1996 Kaufman released the ...

The Boone County Historical Society Museum and former Columbian John Redd, who used the stage name Korla Pandit during a 20-year television career in Hollywood, will be featured at 8 p.m. Thursday on ...

Organist Korla Pandit was an alluring enigma a television pioneer and the godfather of exotica music He never spoke a word on 900 episodes of his groundbreaking 1950s TV program but captured the ...

Now, we have come across a story from the Jim Crow era about cultural mimicry between people of color. In mid-20th century America, the turban was a tool that people of color used for "confounding the ...