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Ravi Shankar

Also known as Pandit Ravi Shankar, Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury

Indian sitar player (1920–2012)

AI overview

Ravi Shankar was an Indian sitar player who lived from 1920 to 2012 and became one of the most famous musicians from India in the world. He matters because he introduced Indian classical music to international audiences and helped shape how people across the globe understood and appreciated Indian musical traditions.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1956
Works: 16

Top works

חכמה לעידן החדש
Patanjali yoga sutras
Shiva sutras
Ashtavakra Gita
An Intimate Note to the Sincere Seeker; Volume 3

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Film & TV

Sound · Benares, Benares State, British India [now Uttar Pradesh, India]

Ravi Shankar, whose name is often preceded by the title Pandit and "Sitar maestro", was an Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music. He was the best-known proponent of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many other musicians throughout the world.

Known for

George Harrison - All Things Pass — Self2018
Awake: The Life of Yogananda — Self2014
Cachitos de hierro y cromo — Self (archive footage)2013
George Harrison: Living in the Material World — Self (archive footage)2011
Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India — Self2010
The Beatles: The Complete Story — Self (Archive Footage)2010
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts — Self2007
George Harrison & Friends - The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited — Self2005
Concert for George — Self2003
The Song of the Little Road — Self2003

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: India
Active from: 1920
Active to: 2012

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Discography

Music of India (Three Classical Ragas)1956
India's Master Musician1958
The Sounds of India1958
Ragas & Talas1959
In London1962
Ravi Shankar In Concert1962
The Ravi Shankar Collection - Improvisations1962
The Master Musicians of India1964
Portrait of Genius1965
Shree / Sindhu Bhairavi1965

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 264,491
Total plays: 3,819,812

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
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On the Relation between the Expected Value and the Volatility of the Nominal Excess Return on Stocks
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Quotes

“Thank you, if you appreciate the tuning so much, I hope you will enjoy the playing more.”

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Official website

Ravi Shankar Foundation

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Encyclopedic overview

Pandit Ravi Shankar ( Bengali pronunciation: [ˈrobi ˈʃɔŋkor]; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known exponent of Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century, and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. He is also the father of American singer Norah Jones and British-American musician and sitar player Anoushka Shankar.

Shankar was born to a Bengali family in India, and spent his youth as a dancer touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. At age 18, he gave up dancing to pursue a career in music, studying the sitar for seven years under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.

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