| Names |
Pandit RAVI SHANKAR |
| Date of Birth |
April 07, 1920 |
| Date of
Death |
December 11, 2012 |
|
Identity |
Indian Sitar Maestro, Music Director and Composer |
| Special Achievements
/ Events |
- Born at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, his birth name
is Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury.
- He has been described as the best known contemporary
Indian musician.
- He spent his youth touring Europe and India with the
dance group of his brother Uday Shankar.
- He learned sitar playing 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 at All India Radio, New Delhi,
from 1949 to 1956.
- In 1956, he began to tour around the world playing
Indian classical music thereby increasing its popularity in
the 1960s.
- He engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar
and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s.
- From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of the
upper chamber of the Parliament of India.
- He was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the
Bharat Ratna, in 1999, and received three Grammy Awards.
- While in USA, on 6 December 2012, Shankar was admitted
to hospital after complaining of breathing difficulties.
- He died on 12 December at San Diego, California, USA.
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