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 ...

Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting January 1st, 2007 - Buy Soundies Vol 8 The Exotic World of Korla Pandit DVD ...

Documentary Premieres on PBS SoCal KOCE on Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. PBS SoCal debuts Korla, a documentary that shares the story of John Roland Redd, an African-American man who reinvents himself as Korla ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's a weekly trial on the Internet about who may be stealing culture from whom. Earlier this week, the defendants were Iggy Azalea and white gay men. A while back, it was Macklemore and the Harlem ...

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 ...

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 ...