RAVI SHANKAR
Name: Ravi Shankar
Born: 7 April 1920 Benares, United Provinces, British India
Pandit Ravi Shankar (born April 7, 1920, in Benares, United Provinces,
British India) is a Bengali Indian sitar player and composer. He is a disciple
of Baba Allauddin Khan, the founder of the Maihar gharana of Hindustani
classical music.
Ravi Shankar is one of the leading sitar players of the modern era. He has been
a longtime musical collaborator of tabla-players Pandit Chatur Lal and Ustad
Allah Rakha, 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.
Name: Ravi Shankar
Born: 7 April 1920 Benares, United Provinces, British India
Pandit Ravi Shankar (born April 7, 1920, in Benares, United Provinces,
British India) is a Bengali Indian sitar player and composer. He is a disciple
of Baba Allauddin Khan, the founder of the Maihar gharana of Hindustani
classical music.
Ravi Shankar is one of the leading sitar players of the modern era. He has been
a longtime musical collaborator of tabla-players Pandit Chatur Lal and Ustad
Allah Rakha, 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.