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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources."Pandit" (Sanskrit, "learned") is honorific), born April 7, 1920, in Benares, United Provinces, British India) is an Indian sitar player and composer.Ravi Shankar is one of the leading sitar players of the modern era.He is the brother of renowned dancer Uday Shankar, uncle of fellow Indian musician Ananda Shankar, and the father of singer Norah Jones and sitarist Anoushka Shankar, who were born in 1979 and 1981 to Sue Jones and Sukanya Shankar respectively.He began writing scores for film and ballet and started a recording career with HMV's Indian affiliate.Some of his most noted scores include the ones for Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy and Richard Attenborough's Gandhi.Ravi Shankar then became well known to the music world outside India, first performing in the Soviet Union in 1953 and then the West in 1956.He was also one of the artists who performed at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, and with Harrison was one of the organizers of The Concert for Bangladesh in 1971, in an attempt to raise awareness of the growing crisis that was occurring in East Pakistan where Shankar's family origins lay.After his colleague's death on 29 November in 2001, after a long fight against cancer, Shankar, his daughter, Anoushka, along with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Jeff Lynne, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Billy Preston, among many others attended Concert for George in London, where Shankar dedicated the memorial to Harrison.They all became part of a cocktail that everyone seemed to be lapping up!"In 1969 he published an English language autobiography, My Music, My Life.The classical composer Philip Glass acknowledges Shankar as a major influence, and the two collaborated to produce Passages, a recording of compositions in which each reworks themes composed by the other.In 1986 he was nominated to be a member of the Rajya Sabha, India's upper house of Parliament, for six years.The Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, was awarded to him in 1999.He shared an Academy Award nomination with George Fenton for Best Original Score to Gandhi (1982).All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.Ravi studied music and dance and toured extensively in India and Europe.Ravi Shankar, plays his trance like compositions in rock music clubs as frequently as in concert halls.Performer or Music Labels mentioned within the site.He was awarded the Bharath Rathna, the highest civilian honour in India, by the govt.He became tremendously famous.He then successfully collaborated with many western musicians including George Harrison of Beatles fame, Yehudi Menuhin and Philip Glasse.Having spent decades in the US, he is now back in India and lives in Delhi.Even at the age of 85, Pt Ravi Shankar, is still active in music.Not the Ravi Shankar you're looking for?Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.Department, Self, Archive FootageComposer:2000s1990s1980s1970s1960s1950s1940sRavi Shankar: Between Two Worlds (2001) Tenussian Vacuvasco (2000) Yehudi Menuhin: The Violin of the Century (1996) Genesis (1986) Gandhi (1982) ...Richard Attenborough's Film: Gandhi (USA: complete title) Meera (1979) (as Pandit Ravishankar) Unterwegs nach Kathmandu (1971) (TV) Sex and the Animals (1969) ...Waves After Waves (India: English title) Anuradha (1960) (as Pt.The Flute and the Arrow (USA) A Chairy Tale (1957) ...The Unvanquished Kabuliwala (1956) Pather Panchali (1955) ...The Saga of the Road Neecha Nagar (1946) ...Trinidad and Tobago CricketerUnterwegs nach Kathmandu (1971) (TV) Chappaqua (1966) ....Department:The Party (1968) (music advisor: Mr.HimselfThe Concert for Bangladesh (1972) ....HimselfMonterey Pop (1968) ....PerformerThe Best on Record (1968) (TV) ....With our Resume service you can add photos and build a complete resume to help you achieve the best possible presentation on the IMDb.Right to Information Act."Chhattisgarh's largest and oldest institution of higher education with modern facilities.""Plays a major role in the educational, cultural and economic upliftment of the region.""Jurisdiction entire central and southern part of Chhattisgarh.""More than 200 affiliated colleges offering wide choice of courses.""Strong emphasis on research collaboration.""Largest number of student enrollment."Hot Hits(For latest music..Indian Melody : Your one stop source for all Indian Music needs..Pandit Ravi Shankar's Sitar: Hosted by 'Bharath.April 1920 in Varanasi, UP, India.Angeles and was made the head of the Indian Music section in California Institute of Arts
in 1970.He is also a member of the International
Music Council and has been nominated as a member of the Indian parliament.Indian film fest in LA 17th Apr 2006
Kamal Haasan's next Kamaal!His sangeet sadhana was as strenuous and grueling as the tapasya (penance) done in the olden days by ascetics seeking knowledge in the ashrams of their gurus.He toured and wrote for films and ballet.At the same time he was making his first steps towards international stardom.In 1954 he performed in the Soviet Union.In 1956 he played his debut solo concerts in Western Europe and the U.Within a decade he would be the most famous Indian musician on the planet.No love stories for Neil Nitin Mukesh!Salman Khan to write a book on bodybuilding?Pandit Ravi Shankar
'I did not expect the Ravi Shankar phobia to reach such a level where they are ready to denigrate the highest award in the land just to pull me down!Pandit Ravi Shankar is not amused.After he got the
Bharat Ratna, his critics, instead of cowing down, have become
even more shrill.Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone.Is this because there is a high level of peer envy among our top musicians?Between us artistes there is usually no problem.But what happens behind one's back is very unfortunate.Everything has become larger than life.It was not like this 10 or 15 years ago.But what's wrong with it?That is one way of seeing it, I agree.With public memory becoming shorter and shorter, how do you see the future of classical music which works on the basis of durability, tradition, people remembering their past, their heritage?But great music is like literature.You have composers like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart who are immortal. |
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