Write a biography
on pandit Ravi Shankar
(Wethin 100 words) based on the hints geven
below
[Hints: - Introduction - The maestro of the maestros
of the Indian classical music,
Rith - 7 April,
1920 in Varanasi , Parents - Shyam Sankar
Chowdhury and Hemangini Chowdhury; Music
Allaudin Khan, an exponent of Maihar Gharang
harmonised the East and the west, composed
music in Satyajit Rays "pathar panchali
Performed in and outside the country with
experts like Zubin Mehta , Jehudi Menuhin,
Famous fore Exponent of the Sitat: Musician
composer of Hindustani classical music
Influenced by: Ali Akbar Khan , ustad Allarkhan
pandit uday Shankar -- his brother
and great
domcer; Achievement:- Grammy Award, Padma
Bhushan, Bharat Ratha, Desikattam; Famous book:-
Rag Anurag , Death: December 11, 2012 at
stipps Memorial Hospital in San Diego,
California
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Ravi Shankar, in full Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury, (born April 7, 1920, Benares [now Varanasi], India—died December 11, 2012, San Diego, California, U.S.), 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.Born into a Bengali Brahman (highest social class in Hindu tradition) family, Shankar spent most of his youth studying music and dance and touring extensively in India and Europe with his brother Uday’s dance troupe. At age 18 Shankar gave up dancing, and for the next seven years he studied the sitar (a long-necked stringed instrument of the lute family) under the noted musician Ustad Allauddin Khan. After serving as music director of All-India Radio from 1948 until 1956, he began a series of European and American tours.In the course of his long career, Shankar became the world’s best-known exponent of Hindustani (North Indian) classical music, performing with India’s most-distinguished percussionists and making dozens of successful recordings. Shankar composed the film scores for the Indian director Satyajit Ray’s famous Apu trilogy (1955–59). In 1962 he founded the Kinnara School of Music in Bombay (now Mumbai) and then established a second Kinnara School in Los Angeles in 1967; he closed both schools some years later, however, having become disenchanted with institutional teaching.In the course of his long career, Shankar became the world’s best-known exponent of Hindustani (North Indian) classical music, performing with India’s most-distinguished percussionists and making dozens of successful recordings. Shankar composed the film scores for the Indian director Satyajit Ray’s famous Apu trilogy (1955–59). In 1962 he founded the Kinnara School of Music in Bombay (now Mumbai) and then established a second Kinnara School in Los Angeles in 1967; he closed both schools some years later, however, having become disenchanted with institutional teaching.During his lifetime he won Grammy Awards for the albums West Meets East (1966), a collaboration with Menuhin; The Concert for Bangladesh (1971), a compilation of performances by Shankar, Harrison, Bob Dylan, and others from the benefit concert Shankar inspired Harrison to organize; and Full Circle (2001), a live recording of a performance at Carnegie Hall with his daughter Anoushka Shankar. In 1997 he received the Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale prize for music. Shankar continued giving concerts into his 90s, frequently accompanied by Anoushka, who, like her father, specialized in blending Indian and Western traditions. Also a daughter of Shankar is multiple-Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Norah Jones, who found her niche in an eclectic blend of jazz, pop, and country music.