Prabhu Edouard

Prabhu Edouard (left) with Sabir Khan in the Musée Guimet (2012)

Prabhu Edouard (born November 1969 in Tiruchirappalli ) is an Indo-French tabla player who also works in the world music and jazz genre .

Live and act

Edouard, who grew up in France from 1975, chose the Hindustan tabla as an instrument despite his southern Indian origins , which he studied with Shankar Ghosh in Calcutta between 1993 and 1999 . He performed with musicians such as Hariprasad Chaurasia , Lakshmi Shankar , VG Jog , Aashish Khan , Debashish Bhattacharya , Tanjur Vishwanathan , Shashank Subramanyam or Kushal Das to present Hindustan music. He has also presented solo programs for tabla and also played with TV Gopalakrishnan as well as in world music contexts. He also accompanied Rohini Bhate , Astad Debu and Rajendra Gangani . He also played with Maurice Béjart and Jean-Pierre Drouet .

In the field of jazz, he first performed with Malik Mezzadri , currently with Nguyên Lê ; he also runs a duo with Joachim Kühn and the trio FEW with Renaud Garcia-Fons and Louis Winsberg . He also worked with Jordi Savall , Moriba Koïta , Saïd Shraïbi , Kudsi Ergüner , Sandip Chaterjee and Jamchid Chemiran .

Kôlam (Lokanga 2016)
Adnan Joubran Borders Behind (World Village 2014)
Nguyên Lê Songs of Freedom (Act 2011, with Illya Amar, Linley Marthe , Stéphane Galland , Youn Sun Nah , Dhafer Youssef , David Linx , Chris Speed and others)
La Capella Reial de Catalunya , Hespèrion XXI , Jordi Savall Hispania & Japan - Dialogues (AliaVox 2011, with Montserrat Figueras , Ken Zuckerman, Masako Hirao, Hiroyuki Koinuma, Ichiro Seki, Yukio Tanaka)
Enzo Enzo Têtue (Naïve 2010)
Nguyên Lê Saiyuki (Act 2009, with Mieko Miyazaki and Hariprasad Chaurasia)
Jordi Savall La route de l'orient (AliaVox 2008)
Olli & the Bollywood Orchestra Tantra (Bassofone / anticraft 2008)
Mahawash Ghazals Afghans (Accords Croisés 2007)
Christophe Wallemme Namaste (BeeJazz 2006)
Souad Massi Deb (Sony 2003)
Magic Malik Orchestra 6996 (Indigo 2000)