Name	Louis Banks
Height
Naionality	Indian
Date of Birth	February 11, 1941
Place of Birth	Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Famous for	Composer, Record producer, Music director, Singer, Instrumentalist, Arranger

Louis Banks is a Grammy Award nominated film composer, record producer, jazz musician-keyboardist and singer. Proficient in genres like Indipop, modern progressive and contemporary jazz and Indo jazz fusion, he has often been referred to as the Godfather of Indian Jazz.

After college Banks moved to Kathmandu with his father's band and decided to become a full-time musician, it was there he discovered Jazz music. In the late 1960s, as a band member of the legendary 'Weather Report' band, he performed at the Soaltee Hotel in Kathmandu, for three years. During his stay there he rejected an offer from R.D.Burman to work with him in Bombay. Not happy in Kathmandu, Banks moved base to Calcutta in 1971, where he met singer Pam Craine and saxophonist Braz Gonsalves and formed the The Louis Banks Brotherhood. The band began performing at the Hindustan Hotel which led to an invitation to play at the Blue Fox Restaurant, a popular night club famous for its patronage of live western music. From there on he was able to get work composing advertisement jingles and stage musicals.