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Ravi Shankar

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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar playing his sitar.
Background information
Birth name	Pandit Ravi Shankar
Born	April 7, 1920 (1920-04-07) (age 88) Benares, United Provinces, British India
Genre(s)	Indian classical music
Occupation(s)	Composer, sitar player
Instrument(s)	Sitar
Years active	1939 – present
Label(s)	Angel, Dark Horse Records, HMV, Private Music
Associated acts	Ustad Alla Rakha Yehudi Menuhin
Website	RaviShankar.org

Pandit Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শংকর, Devanagari: रविशंकर, "Pandit" (Sanskrit, "learned") is honorific), born April 7, 1920, in Benares, India is a Bengali Indian sitar player and composer; his family originates from East Bengal (later East Pakistan and now Bangladesh). He is a disciple of Baba Allauddin Khan, the founder of the Maihar gharana of Hindustani classical music.

Ravi Shankar is a leading Indian instrumentalist of the modern era. He has been a longtime musical collaborator of tabla-players Ustad Allah Rakha, Kishen maharaj and intermittently also of sarod-player Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. His collaborations with violinist Yehudi Menuhin, film maker Satyajit Ray, and the The Beatles (in particular, George Harrison) added to his international reputation.

In 1999, Ravi Shankar was awarded the Bharat Ratna award, India's highest civilian honor.

He is the brother of renowned dancer Uday Shankar, uncle of fellow Indian musician Ananda Shankar, and the father of singer Norah Jones and sitarist Anoushka Shankar, who were born in 1979 and 1981 to Sue Jones and Sukanya Shankar respectively. Ravi Shankar, student of Ustad Alauddin Khan, fell in love with his Gurus daughter Annapurna and sought permission from Alauddin Khanji to marry his daughter. The marriage between Ravi Shankar and Annapurna Devi took place when Ravi was 21 years, and Annapurna was only 14 years old. On marriage, she converted to Hinduism and received the name Annapurna (originally the name of a Hindu goddess) from the Maharaja of Maihar . The marriage lasted some twenty years (though not always happily), and produced a son, Shubhendra Shankar (1942–1992), whom Annapurna Devi trained in Sitar.

Ravi Shankar

Pandit Ravi Shankar ( Bengali: রবি শংকর, Devanagari: रविशंकर, "Pandit" (Sanskrit, "learned") is honorific), born April 7, 1920, in Benares, United ...

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The official web site for the Legendary Sitar Virtuoso Ravi Shankar, his daughter Anoushka Shankar and The Ravi Shankar Foundation

Ravi Shankar

The official web site for the Legendary Sitar Virtuoso Ravi Shankar, his daughter Anoushka Shankar and The Ravi Shankar Foundation

Ravi Shankar - Biography

If you want to burst a motherf*cker's eardrums, you need MC Ra Shanks.” ... Ravi Shankar, pictured with one of his many instruments of death from his prized sitar collection ...

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