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Ravi Shankar (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈrobi ˈʃɔŋkor]; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, [2] sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; [3] 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer.
Alap 00:00Jor 13:40Gat I (Tala: Jhap-tal) 26:21Gat II (Tala: Ek-tal) 43:31Raga Hameer 50:13Musicians : Sitar -- Ravi ShankarTabla -- Alla RakhaTambura [Tanpu...
Aug 2, 2024 · Ravi Shankar (born April 7, 1920, Benares [now Varanasi], India—died December 11, 2012, San Diego, California, U.S.) was an Indian musician, player of the sitar, composer, and founder of the National Orchestra of India, who was influential in stimulating Western appreciation of Indian music.
Apr 2, 2014 · Ravi Shankar was an Indian musician and composer best known for his success in popularizing the sitar. Shankar grew up studying music and toured as a member of his brother's dance...
2 days ago · Ravi Shankar holds B. Tech and MBA degrees. He is married to Akanksha Shankar and they have a daughter and a son. He joined the Embassy of India, Kyiv on August 5, 2024. With PM Modi set to visit Ukraine on Friday, marking the first visit by an Indian PM since Ukraine's independence in 1991, Ambassador Shankar’s pivotal role in facilitating ...
Dec 12, 2012 · Sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar, who has died aged 92, played a leading role in promoting and popularising classical Indian music around the world. He introduced the Beatles to the...
The official website of Pushcart-prize winning poet Ravi Shankar. Correctional memoir coming 2021.
Dec 9, 2013 · The opera, on which Ravi Shankar worked with David Murphy, before Shankar's death in 2012, is a love letter to his wife Sukanya, and draws on both the personal and the mythological, blurring the lines between Shankar’s extraordinary life and the major Sanskrit epic of ancient India Mahabharata.
Dec 12, 2012 · Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso and composer who died on Tuesday at 92, created a passion among Western audiences for the rhythmically vital, melodically flowing ragas of...
Apr 7, 2020 · In a career that spanned decades and continents, Ravi Shankar single-handedly introduced Western audiences to the centuries-old classical tradition of Indian Ragas — a complex system of...