Person Open DS/UK/94 Shankar; Ravi (7 April 1920-11 December 2012); Pandit KBE; Indian musician, sitar player and composer Shankar Ravi 7 April 1920-11 December 2012 Indian musician, sitar player and composer Male Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury | Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury https://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx?2W2yi92yvlgAp Benares, Benares State, British India (born)

San Diego, California, United States (died)

Indian Musician; Sitar Asian Son of Shyam Shankar Chowdhury (Middle Temple barrister and scholar) and Hemangini Devi Husband of Sukanya Rajan Former husband of Annapurna Devi (Indian surbahar player) Former partner of Kamala Shastri (dancer) and Sue Jones (concert producer) Father of Shubhendra Shankar (graphic designer), Norah Jones (singer), Anoushka Shankar (sitar player) Heterosexual Ravi Shankar KBE was an Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music. He was the best-known proponent of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many other musicians throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. Shankar was born to a Bengali Brahmin family in India, and spent his youth as a dancer 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 in the latter half of 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Shankar (2020) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHeharper 3/5/2012 RAHAKirkbride 10/27/2022 40ff03fa-efe9-4b23-9cb6-9f96b57ff5bf