Tulsi (musician)

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Tulsi Sen Gupta is an American player of the tambura. She played on a number of albums by Alice Coltrane in the early 1970s (credited simply as "Tulsi"). She also appeared as part of the Alice Coltrane Group at Carnegie Hall (21 February 1971).

Coltrane wrote of Tulsi, in the liner notes of the 1970 album Journey in Satchidananda: Tulsi's tamboura [...] is played with as high a degree of sensitivity as any I have heard from any instrumentalist native to the East."

Tulsi now lives in Jersey City, New Jersey with her husband Ashish, is involved in running the Cultural Association of Bengal, New York, and with the performance and recording of Indian classical music. She also translates booklet notes and other material for concerts and recordings from Bengali into English.