Louis Banks  stays in Santacruz, Mumbai. He has his music studio there. Louis is 73 ( 2014 ) now. He has 31-years old son Gino. Gino has taken up drums. Louis himself is the finest pianist. Both of them play togethter . Louis used to perform all over the world in the 1980’s. Bank’s musical lineage spans six generations, with some members having performed for Nepal’s royal family. They are Nepalis. In the early 1940s, his dad was invited to perform in Kolkata, and then settled there. His father Pushkar Bahadur changed his name to George Banks. This went well with the American jazz band. His son Dambar Bahadur Budaprithi was renamed Louis Banks, after legendary jazz musician Louis Armstrong. He later moved from Kolkata to Darjeeling, and learnt piano and trumpet. His parents moved back to Kathmandu, and Louis became a teacher. He got an offer to play at Kathmandu hotel. Later, a few Kolkata hotels invited him to play. He made Kolkata his home, and formed Louis Banks Brotherhood. R.D. burman heard him there , and offered him Shashi Kapoor’s Mukti in mid-70s. He continued in Kolkata, but the music was fading there. He shifted to Mumbai and played music at Sea Rock, Bandra. He used to work with R.D. Burman. He dropped out of Hindi films once he started to compose advertising jingles. His most memorable composition was Miley sur mera tumhara. His wife is Loraine. Louis has formed new group Reality. He has notebooks where he has written his music, some of these date back to the 1970s. They find Hindi film music okay, but it does not allow alternative music to come up. They sell music CDs at the concerts. People do not buy music from the music stores. Jazz and classical music has  lost audience. It is cultural bankruptcy.