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Lewis Pragasam
Lewis Pragasam (10 August 1957 – 18 December 2023) was a Malaysian percussionist and drummer recognized for his contributions to Malaysian jazz fusion Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, ... music. He was the founder of the progressive Jazz fusion band Asiabeat in 1979. The group achieved international fame by blending Asian ethnic rhythms and western jazz. Early life Pragasam was born on 10 August 1957 in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur. His father was of Indian origin while his mother was from Rangoon in then Burma. He did not have formal music training, but, in his later years, he was a student of Indian mridangam player Karaikudi Mani. Growing up in Brickfields, he was exposed to a melting pot of ethnicities and cultures. He would later attribute some of his works to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuala Lumpur
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