Ravi Shankar
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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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- Born
- 1956
- Died
- 2012-12-11
- 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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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.
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- 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
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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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