Aloke Dasgupta’s journey from accountant to Rolling Stone musical collaborator
Aloke Dasgupta arrived in the U.S. as an accountant. He and his wife have since played with the Rolling Stones and the LA Philharmonic and established their own music school in Torrance by William Foss Aloke Dasgupta, who has played with the Rolling Stones, Cheap Trick, and Gwen Stefani, outside his Torrance home. Photo On a quiet street in North Torrance lives an internationally renowned performer who has jammed with the best in the business. He and his wife are accomplished musicians, boasting not only performances with the Rolling Stones, George Harrison, Gwen Stefani, and the LA Philharmonic at venues ranging from India to the Hollywood Bowl, but also major film and television soundtrack credits. Meet Aloke and Sanjukta Dasgupta, masters of Indian music equally at home on a Las Vegas stage as a meditative ashram. They have been performing and teaching music together for over twenty years and have shared an immigrant journey that has taken the couple from the most modest of beginnings to some of the world’s most hallowed stages. “I grew up near Kolkata and my uncle played sitar and taught me,” Aloke said. “By the time that I was eleven I performed in public, and as a teenager I…
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