Organist Korla Pandit was an alluring enigma a television pioneer and the godfather of exotica music He never spoke a word on 900 episodes of his groundbreaking 1950s TV program but captured the hearts of countless Los Angeles housewives with his soulful hypnotic gaze and theatrical performance of popular tunes and East Indian compositions on the newly developed Hammond B3 organ In the 90s he resurfaced as a cult figure with the tikilounge music aficionados and ended up immortalized in the film Ed Wood Often pegged as a man of mystery Korla lived up to that billing when he took an amazing secret with him to his grave in 1998one that is finally revealed in KORLA
