Pam Crain

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Pamela "Pam" Crain (* approx. 1939 in Calcutta ; † August 14, 2013 ibid) was an Indian jazz singer who was popular as the "Queen of Park Street" in the 1960s in the Calcutta music scene.

Life

Crain had English and Indian roots; at age 13 she joined the Dow Hill in Kurseong on as a singer. She started her career in a band that played carnatic music in Neera’s in Chowringhee. At the age of 17, she had an engagement at Club Mocambo, India's first nightclub, which opened in 1956 on Park Street in Calcutta. She sang jazz standards and was accompanied by Anton Menezes' six-piece band. Early role models were Betty Carter , Sarah Vaughan and Nina Simone . In 1971 she founded The Louis Banks Brotherhood with pianist Louis Banks and saxophonist Braz Gonsalves , which first played in the Hindustan Hotel, then in the Blue Fox Restaurant , a popular nightclub with live Western music. After spending several years in Singapore , she returned to Calcutta regularly; In 2006 she received the Pride of the Community Award .

Crain's first recordings were made in 1958; she recorded a single for Columbia with the Cecil Dorset Quintet ( Love Me Tender / Razzle Dazzle) . In 1970 EMI released an EP with the Braz Gonzalves Seven (Raga Rock) , including a cover version of Paul Butterfield's No Amount of Loving . She also recorded the album Explorations for EMI (India) with Braz Gonsalves and Louis Banks .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by Rhada Thomas
  2. ^ Obituary in Times of India
  3. ↑ A Passage in Kolkata (2010)
  4. ↑ http://www.asianwindow.com/tag/pam-crain/
  5. ↑ http://in.yamaha.com/en/artists/pianos_keyboards_instruments/louiz_banks/
  6. ↑ The Jazz, Rock & Blues Greats of India (2008) ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / indiaonfoot.com
  7. ↑ Notes in FINDING CARLTON: Uncovering the Story of Jazz in India in Jazz Lives
  8. ↑ She still roots for Calcutta - Pam Crain pride of her people (2006) in The Telegraph (India)
  9. ↑ Bimal Mukherjee, Sunil Kothari, Ananda Lal, Chidananda Das Gupta: Rasa: Music and Dance . Anamika Kala Sangam, 1995
personal data
SURNAME Crain, Pam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crain, Pamela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Calcutta
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 2013
Place of death Calcutta