Documentary Premieres on PBS SoCal KOCE on Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. PBS SoCal debuts Korla, a documentary that shares the story of John Roland Redd, an African-American man who reinvents himself as Korla ...

In the category of unusual entertainers, there are few who could hold a candle to Korla Pandit. There was the jeweled turban. The hypnotizing gaze into the TV camera. And the exotic organ playing that ...

This week on Global Notes we'll spotlight keyboardist Lance Kaufman, an artist who pays homage to Korla Pandit, a man many considered the "Godfather of Exotica" music. In 1996 Kaufman released the ...

Exotica icon Korla Pandit was a Hammond organ virtuoso with a signature look: Nehru jackets, smoky eye makeup, and bejeweled turbans. For their intriguing profile, codirectors John Turner and Eric ...

Marin has been home to some fascinating characters over the decades, but probably no one has been as mysterious and exotic as Korla Pandit, an organ-playing, turban-wearing sex symbol of 1950s daytime ...

It often happens that powerful truths are masked in fiction and illusion. In the case of Korla Pandit, dubbed the “Godfather of Exotica,” pretext defined the subtext of deep personal truths. Sept. 29 ...