Tony Kanal

Tony Ashwin Kanal the bassist for ska-pop crossover band No Doubt.  His musical work outside of the band includes producing and songwriting with artists such as reggae singer Elan Atias and fellow No Doubt bandmate Gwen Stefani, among others.  Kanal was born in Kingsbury, a suburb of London. His father, Gulab Kanal, originally from Sukkur, Sindh , and his mother, Lajwanti, from Mumbai, were living in Britain but moved to the US in 1981.
Gulab Kanal started a shop called Kanal's Gift and Fashion, in Anaheim (near Disneyland)., and unlike the stereotypical Indian father, openly encouraged his son to express his creative urges. By age 15, young Tony was playing saxophone in his high school's jazz ensemble, but found his punk and underground rock leanings at odds with the jazz band's scrubbed, wholesome school-approved persona.

When he first saw No Doubt play at a punk club in 1987, the band announced that their bass player was leaving the band. Intrigued, he showed up to audition and was immediately accepted as No Doubt's bassist despite the fact that he'd never played in a rock band before.   Kanal eventually dated the attractive singer Gwen Stefnai. (She looks great in a bindi)  Many of the songs on the album "Tragic Kingdom" were written by Stefani about their subsequent breakup, most notably the hit "Don't Speak". Many years later, Stefani co-wrote her hit song "Cool" about their relationship as friends for her 2004 debut solo album.

Source: Wikipedia, The Times of India

Ben Kingsley

Even though he's probably best known as portraying the world's best known Indian, early in his career, this British-born actor shed his real name, Krishna Pandit Bhanji, because it was too 'foreign' sounding.

Kingsley was born in Snainton, near Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, the son of Anna Lyna Mary (née Goodman), an actress and model, and Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, a medical doctor.

Kingsley's father was born in Kenya of Gujarati Indian descent; Kingsley's paternal grandfather was a spice trader who had moved from India to Zanzibar, where Kingsley's father lived until moving to England at the age of 14.  Ben Kingsley's mother, born out of wedlock, was "loath to speak of her background"; she was the daughter of an English mother who worked in the garment district of East London, and a father who was believed by the family to have been a Russian or German Jew.

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'Chilli' of TLC

In the 90s, she was part of one of the biggest r&b groups. As the subject of a feature article in "Today's Black Woman", who knew Rozonda Ocelean Thomas is "Indian" on both sides?

She graduated from B.E. Mays High School. Her father, Abdul Ali, was of East Indian descent and her mother, Ava Thomas, is of African American and Native American descent.  Thomas, who had been raised by her mother, later allowed the Sally Jessy Raphael television talk show to air footage of her meeting her father for the first time in 1996.

Since the death of group member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes in April 2002, Thomas and Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins have occasionally performed as a duo.

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