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biography of pt ravi shankar in 50 words

Answer 1

Date of Birth: April 7, 1920

Place of Birth: Varanasi

Birth Name: Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury

Date of Death: 11 December 2012

Place of Death: San Diego, California

Profession: Sitar player, composer, singer

Spouses: Annapurna Devi, Sukanya Rajan

Children: Shubhendra Shankar, Anoushka Shankar

Father: Shyam Shankar Chowdhury

Mother: Hemangini Devi

Siblings: Uday Shankar, Rajendra Shankar, Debendra Shankar, Bhupendra Shankar

Awards: Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Grammy Award

Pandit Ravi Shankar was an Indian musician and composer, best known for popularizing the Indian classical instrument Sitar all over the world. Shankar grew up studying music and toured as a member of his brother's dance troupe. After serving as the director of All-India Radio, he began to tour India and the United States. In the process, he collaborated with many notable musicians, including George Harrison and Philip Glass. He even collaborated with the famous band ‘The Beatles’, popularizing Sitar to a greater extent. Honored with three highest Indian civilian awards, Shankar passed away in California on December 2012, at the age of 92.

Answer 2

Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শঙ্কর) (IPA: [ˈrɔbi ˈʃɔŋkɔr]; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012), born Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury,[2] his name often preceded by the title Pandit ('Master'), was a Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music. He was one of the best-known proponents of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many other musicians throughout the world. In 1999, Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna.

Pandit
Ravi Shankar
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Shankar in 1988
Background information
Birth name
Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury
Born
7 April 1920
Benares, Benares State, British Raj
(now Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, Republic of India)
Died
11 December 2012 (aged 92)
San Diego, California, United States
Genres
Indian classical music
Occupation(s)
Musician composer
Instruments
Sitar vocals
Years active
1930–2012
Labels
World Pacific Angel HMV Apple Dark Horse Private Music East Meets West Music[1]
Associated acts
Uday Shankar Allauddin Khan Ali Akbar Khan Lakshmi Shankar Yehudi Menuhin Chatur Lal Alla Rakha George Harrison Anoushka Shankar Norah Jones John Coltrane
Website
ravishankar.org
Shankar was born to a Bengali family in India,[3] and spent his youth touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study 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 of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.

In 1956, Shankar began to tour Europe and the Americas playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Beatles guitarist George Harrison. His influence on the latter helped popularize the use of Indian instruments in pop music throughout the 1960s. Shankar engaged Western music by writing compositions for sitar and orchestra, and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992, he served as a nominated member of Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. He continued to perform until the end of his life.