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Ravi Shankar
Pandit Ravi Shankar was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known exponent of Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century, and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. He is also the father of American singer Norah Jones and British-America…
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Born 7 April 1920 · Died 11 December 2012 · Q103774
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2026· 24 entries
LawStreet Journal: Karnataka HC Quashes FIR Against Sri Sri Ravi Shankar In Bengaluru Land Encroachment Case
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The News Mill: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar lays foundation for wellness centre in Ongole
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usthadian.com: Ravi Shankar Elevated as RBI Executive Director
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Krishi Jagran: Healing People, Restoring the Earth with Permaculture: Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Vision of Regenerative Humanitarianism
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The Hindu: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar offers special prayers at Kanaka Durga temple in Vijayawada
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WebIndia123: Andhra Pradesh: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar lays foundation stone for integrated wellness centre in Ongole
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Telegraph India: Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s wisdom call at IIT Kharagpur’s 75th Foundation Day celebrations
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Realty Today: Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Lays Foundation Stone for EBG Group’s Integrated Wellness Centre
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The News Mill: Ravi Shankar Prasad urges Congress to stop claiming monopoly over freedom movement
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ANI News: "Stop claiming monopoly over freedom movement": Ravi Shankar Prasad slams Congress over Vande Mataram row
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Jammu Links News: Stop claiming monopoly over freedom movement: BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad tells Congress on Vande Mataram 'insult'
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siliguritimes.com: Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar attends Maha Rudra Puja and Satsang organised by Art of Living in Siliguri
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Moneycontrol.com: Vikrant Massey on playing Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: ‘And that's when I got to know him’
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lokmattimes.com: Vikrant Massey on Playing Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: ‘I Had No Idea About His Global Impact
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Bollywood Hungama: Vikrant Massey opens up about playing Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in White
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Bollywood Hungama: Vikrant Massey opens up on playing Sri Sri Ravi Shankar; says, “I was completely blown by the impact that man had”
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Yo Vizag: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar inaugurates skill development centre at Bhogapuram
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Aviation Jeta: Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Inaugurates GMRVF Skill Development Centre at Bhogapuram
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The Times of India: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar inaugurates skill centre at Bhogapuram
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ThePrint: Ravi Shankar Prasad calls Chidambaram’s ‘mentally Naxal’ remark irresponsible
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The News Mill: Ravi Shankar Prasad condemns Chidambaram’s ‘dimagi naxal’ remark
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ANI News: "Shameful, crude": Ravi Shankar Prasad slams Chidambaram's 'proud to be a dimagi naxal' remark
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Social News XYZ: Patna: BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad addresses press conference #Gallery
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2022· 2 entries
Claimed: “Unicorns are startups with 1 billion dollars in revenue” — rated False by Factchecker.
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Claimed: “Unicorns are startups having $1 billion in revenue” — rated False by BOOM Fact Check.
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “The Unforgettable Ravi Shankar”.
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2020· 1 entry
Released album “Sukanya”.
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2019· 2 entries
Released album “Ravi Shankar - Mind Blowin Melody & Concluding Note”.
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Claimed: “200 people killed in Balakot” — rated False by Alt News.
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “Rāgas & Tālas + India's Master Musician”.
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2015· 2 entries
Released album “The Unique Ravi Shankar”.
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Released album “Live in Bangalore”.
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2013· 4 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2013).
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Released album “The Living Room Sessions Part 2”.
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Released album “Ravi Shankar”.
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Released album “Ravi Shankar: A Life in Music”.
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2012· 4 entries
Died 2012-12-11.
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Awarded Tagore Award (2012).
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Released album “Ravi Shankar Symphony”.
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Released album “The Living Room Sessions Part 1”.
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2011· 2 entries
At a concert recorded and released in 2012 as Tenth Decade in Concert: Ravi Shankar Live in Escondido, Shankar introduced a new percussive sitar technique called Goonga Sitar, whereby the strings are muffled with a cloth
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Released album “That Which Colours the Mind”.
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “The Ultimate CD”.
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Released album “Psychedelic India”.
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Rare and Glorious”.
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Released album “Festival from India”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “More Flowers of India”.
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2007· 5 entries
Released album “Flowers of India”.
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Released album “Songs & Dances From the New Village”.
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Released album “A Life in Music”.
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Released album “Traditional Ragas”.
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Released album “Sitar Soul”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Music for Flute and Percussion”.
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2003· 2 entries
And overall ten Grammy Awards as of 2025
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Released album “Ravi Shankar 70”.
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “West Meets East Volume 2”.
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Released album “Sangeet Sartaj”.
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Released album “The Teacher - Key Works”.
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album for Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 (2001).
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Shankar performed at the Concert for George, a celebration of Harrison's music staged at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 2002
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Ravi Shankar Presents: The Master Drummers of India”.
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1999· 5 entries
Awarded Bharat Ratna (1999).
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Released album “The Doyen of Hindustani Music”.
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Released album “West Meets East: The Historic Shankar/Menuhin Sessions”.
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Released album “Homage to Mahatma Gandhi”.
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Released album “Legends - Sitar & Film Music”.
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “Ragas Varanasi”.
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Awarded Polar Music Prize (1998).
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1997· 4 entries
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1997).
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Released album “Chants of India”.
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At the Symphony Hall in Birmingham, England
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Became a Regents' Professor at University of California, San Diego
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1996· 3 entries
Released album “Towards the Rising Sun”.
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Released album “In Celebration Highlights”.
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Released album “In Celebration”.
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “The Spirit Of India - Ravi Shankar Plays Ragas”.
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Released album “From India”.
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1993· 1 entry
Released album “Menuhin meets Shankar”.
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award (1992).
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1991· 6 entries
Awarded Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize (1991).
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Released album “Maestro's Choice: Series One: Sitar”.
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Released album “Improvisations”.
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Released album “The Tiger and the Brahmin”.
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Released album “Sitar”.
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Released album “Maestro's Choice Series One”.
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1990· 4 entries
Released album “Passages”.
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In a project initiated by Peter Baumann of the band Tangerine Dream
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Released album “‘Triveni’ Sitar”.
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“shocked to see people dressing so flamboyantly”
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1989· 1 entry
Married Sukanya Rajan at Chilkur Temple in Hyderabad
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1988· 2 entries
With 140 musicians, including the Russian Folk Ensemble and members of the Moscow Philharmonic, along with his own group of Indian musicians
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Released album “Spirit of India”.
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1987· 2 entries
Released album “Tana Mana”.
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Released album “Sublime Sounds of Sitar”.
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1986· 2 entries
Released album “Incredible Ravi Shankar - Raga Charukauns”.
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Released album “Inde du Nord”.
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1984· 2 entries
Released album “New Offerings From Ravi Shankar”.
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Released album “Raga Mishra Piloo - Duet for Sitar & Sarod”.
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Raga-Mala (Sitar Concerto No. 2)”.
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded Padma Vibhushan (1981).
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Released album “Homage To Mahatma Gandhi & Baba Allauddin”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “Raga Jogeshwari”.
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1979· 2 entries
Released album “Ragas Hameer & Gara”.
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Released album “Ravi”.
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1978· 2 entries
With married tanpura player Sukanya Rajan, whom he had known since 1972, which led to the birth of their daughter Anoushka Shankar in 1981
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Released album “East Greets East”.
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1976· 1 entry
Released album “Ravi Shankar's Music Festival From India”.
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1974· 2 entries
Released album “Shankar Family ૐ Friends”.
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Released album “Shankar Family & Friends”.
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1973· 4 entries
Released album “Ragas”.
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As well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for scoring the blockbuster Gandhi (1982)
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And touring North America the following year to a mixed response after Shankar had toured Europe with the Harrison-sponsored Music Festival from India
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Released album “Transmigration Macabre”.
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1972· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Album of the Year for The Concert for Bangladesh (1972).
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Released album “Ragas Kameshwari, Gangeshwari, Rangeshwari”.
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1971· 1 entry
Released album “Four Raga Moods”.
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1968· 6 entries
Released album “A Sitar Recital”.
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Composed the score for the film Charly
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Released album “Ragas Nata Bhairav/Raga Mishra Piloo”.
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Released album “A Morning Raga, An Evening Raga”.
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Went to India to take lessons from Shankar, some of which were captured on film
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Released album “The Genius of Ravi Shankar”.
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1967· 7 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance for West Meets East (1967).
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Awarded Padma Bhushan (1967).
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Shankar performed a well-received set at the Monterey Pop Festival
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Released album “Two Rāga Moods”.
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Released album “Sound of the Sitar”.
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Released album “Song of God: Bagavad Gita”.
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Released album “The Ravi Shankar Collection: In San Francisco”.
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1966· 1 entry
Released album “West Meets East”.
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1965· 2 entries
Released album “Portrait of Genius”.
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Released album “Shree / Sindhu Bhairavi”.
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1964· 1 entry
Released album “The Master Musicians of India”.
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1962· 5 entries
Awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1962).
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And continued a relationship with dancer Kamala Shastri, a relationship that had begun in the late 1940s
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Released album “The Ravi Shankar Collection - Improvisations”.
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Released album “Ravi Shankar In Concert”.
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Released album “In London”.
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1959· 1 entry
Released album “Ragas & Talas”.
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1958· 3 entries
Shankar participated in the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the United Nations and UNESCO music festival in Paris
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Released album “India's Master Musician”.
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Released album “The Sounds of India”.
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1956· 3 entries
Released album “Music of India (Three Classical Ragas)”.
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To tour the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States
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Shankar began to tour Europe and America, playing Indian classical music
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1954· 1 entry
And Menuhin invited Shankar in 1955 to perform in New York City for a demonstration of Indian classical music, sponsored by the Ford Foundation
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1944· 1 entry
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
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1941· 1 entry
Shankar married Annapurna Devi (Roshanara Khan), daughter of musician Allauddin Khan
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1938· 1 entry
Shankar decided to leave his dancing career to study Indian classical music under the tutelage of Khan in Maihar
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1935· 1 entry
To allow Khan to become his group's soloist for a tour of Europe
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1920· 1 entry
Born 1920-04-07.
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