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Pandit Ravi Shankar
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He is an Indian Musician, a
composer of Hindustani Classical Music and a Sitar
Maestro, he was born on 7 April 1920 at Benares, to a
Bengali Brahmin family. He spent his youth touring in
India and Europe as a dancer along with his brother
‘Uday Shankar’.
In 1938, he gave up dancing and started leaning Sitar under court musician ‘Allauddin Khan’.

In 1944, after the complete of his studies, he started composing music for Satyajit Ray’s trilogy
‘Apu Trilogy’ and worked as music director for All India Radio in New Delhi from the year 1949 to
1956.

From the year 1956, he started touring in Europe and America which helped in increasing the
popularity of Indian Classical Music.

He had great associations with violinist ‘Yehudi Menuhin’ and Beatles guitarist ‘George Harrison’
which popularized use of Indian Classical Instruments in the pop genre.

He was engaged in promoting Indian classical music in the west by writing compositions for Sitar
and Orchestra and toured around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. He performed until the last days
of his life.
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He has been awarded with many art titles and other governmental and
academic honours. He received Padma Bhushan in 1967, Padma
Vibhushan in 1981 and Bharat Ratna in 1999.