Artist Information A.S. Shankar hails from a family of musicians and learnt to play the ghatam from Sri. T.V.Vasan, a well-known artist in the field. He has accompanied veteran Karnatic musicians like T.N. Seshagopalan, T.V. Sankaranarayanan, Dr. N. Ramani, P.S. Narayanaswamy, O.S. Tyagarajan, Sudha Raghunathan, and others. He has also released several records and perfomed internationally.