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Ravi Shankar
Indian musician and sitar player (1920–2012)
For other people named Ravi Shankar, see Ravi Shankar (disambiguation).
Ravi Shankar (Bengali pronunciation:[ˈrobiˈʃɔŋkor]; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury,[2] sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury;[3] 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer.
A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known expert of Indian classical music (in Sitar) in the second half of the 20th century,[4] and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world.
B ravi shankar biography
Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. He is also the father of American singer Norah Jones.
Shankar was born to a Bengali family[5][6] in India,[7] 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 sit