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Ravi Shankar

Name in Native Language: "रवि शंकर" (Hindi/HI)
Composer / Film Director / Politician | * 04/07/1920 († 92, 12/11/2012) | Varanasi / Benares (India)
Ravi Shankar, (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈrobi ˈʃɔŋkor]; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known expert of North 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. Shankar was born to a Bengali family in India, and spent his youth as a dancer touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. At age 18, he gave up dancing to pursue a career in music, studying the sitar for seven years 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. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score for scoring the blockbuster Gandhi (1982) 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 Be... ()
Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Music | Comedies

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Awards & Nominations for Ravi Shankar

Commandeur Des Arts Et Des Lettres‎ Knight Commander of The Order of The British Empire Ramon Magsaysay Award Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Banga Bibhushan Praemium Imperiale James Parks Morton Interfaith Award Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Padma Bhushan Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance Grammy Award for Album of the Year Polar Music Prize Bharat Ratna 2x Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album Tagore Award Commander of The Legion of Honour Padma Vibhushan Fellow of The Sangeet Natak Akademi Fukuoka Prize Honorary Doctor of The University of Calcutta Academy Award for Best Original Score

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Full Name: Ravi Shankar
Citizenship: India
Born: Wednesday, 04/07 1920 (April) in Varanasi / Benares (India)
Died: Tuesday, 12/11 2012 (December) in San Diego (aged: 92)
Zodiac sign: Aries (Chinese zodiac sign: Monkey)
Languages: English (EN), Hindi (HI)
Member of: American Academy of Arts and Letters
Record Label: His Master's Voice, Private Music, Apple Records, Dark Horse Records, Deutsche Grammophon, Pacific Jazz Records, Manticore Records
Spouses (current/former): Annapurna Devi
Children: Norah Jones, Shubbo Shankar, Anoushka Shankar
Siblings: Uday Shankar
Ravi Shankar frequently works together with these people:
Jackie Gleason (7x, Actor)
Art Carney (6x, Actor)
Charlton Heston (5x, Actor)
Debbie Reynolds (5x, Actress)
Red Buttons (5x, Actor)
Sergio Franchi (5x, Actor)
Ann-Margret (4x, Actress)
Louis Armstrong (4x, Actor)
Franco Corelli (4x, Actor)
Louis Prima (4x, Actor)
Joan Sutherland (4x, Actress)
Jerry Vale (4x, Actor)

Other people with this name: Ravi Shankar (IN)

WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1380358, Added: 09/04/2019, Last updated: 02/29/2024