Hailing from a gifted Hindustani classical music background, his grandfather was the legendary Ustad Allauddin Khan, the founder of the Maihar Gharana.
[2] In 1971, within two years of his arrival in the US, Shubho Shankar performed in a concert for the first time, playing with his father at New York's Carnegie Hall.
[2] He gave lessons in sitar playing, singing and flute in Orange County, San Diego and Los Angeles.
[3] He worked as a clerk in a liquor store, painted pictures, and drew illustrations for telephone directories, in order to support his wife and two children.
[2] Shankar died of pneumonia at Los Alamitos Medical Center following an illness of several months at his home in Garden Grove.