Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Sources on Amrit Gajjar (Dilruba player on 'Within You, Without You')

Information on Amrit Gajjar is drawn from his 1982 US Social Security application records at Ancestry.com and articles in the Indian press taken from this video on Facebook, which includes a photo of Gajjar with George Harrison at one of the 'Within You, Without You' sessions. He was born Amritlal Vaji Gajjar in Kampala, Uganda, on October 21, 1929, to Valji Gajjar and Puriba Sachania and raised in Kenya. Although his obituary claims he moved to the UK in the 1960s, a person with his exact name appears on the UK electoral register of 1954 living at 12 Norland Square in Notting Hill, London. All his children were born in the UK, his wife having been born in 1950. He moved in early 1982 to the US and became established on the west coast as a master musician, performing in numerous concerts. He died of cancer in San Jose, California on June 25, 1996, just after an album of his work, arranged by Asim Mehta, had been completed.

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