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Ravi Shankar

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Also known as Pandit Ravi Shankar, Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury

Indian sitar player (1920–2012)

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Ravi Shankar (1920–2012) was an Indian composer, film director, politician, and conductor who played the sitar. Born in Varanasi, he held citizenship in the British Raj, the Dominion of India, and India. His musical work focused on Hindustani and Indian classical music, and he was associated with record labels including His Master's Voice, Private Music, Apple Records, and Dark Horse Records. Shankar served as a member of the Rajya Sabha and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He received several honors, including the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Praemium Imperiale. Shankar was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score. He was married to Annapurna Devi and had children named Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar. He resided in Varanasi and Encinitas before dying of natural causes in San Diego.

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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
composerconcertofilm scorefilm soundtrackhindustani classicalindian

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
264,491
Total plays
3,819,812

Tags

Indiansitarindian classicalworldWorld Music

Similar artists

Anoushka ShankarAli Akbar KhanHariprasad ChaurasiaZakir HussainAnanda Shankar

Ravi Shankar (7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012), often referred to by the title Pandit, was a multiple Grammy Award-winning Indian musician best known for his virtuosity on the sitar. Shankar was awarded the three highest national civil honours of India: the Padma Bhushan, in 1967, the Padma Vibhushan, in 1981, and the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. He has received honours from the UNESCO International Music Council, three Grammy Awards, a Magsaysay award, a Légion d'honneur and was nominated for an Academy Award. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ravi+Shankar">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. New response evaluation criteria in solid tumours: Revised RECIST guideline (version 1.1)

    · 2009 · cited 25,066x

  2. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

    · 2016 · cited 23,623x

  3. 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

    · 2020 · cited 15,951x

  4. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

    · 2022 · cited 13,855x

  5. On the Relation between the Expected Value and the Volatility of the Nominal Excess Return on Stocks

    · 1993 · cited 11,326x

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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

ravishankar.org →

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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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