Ravi Shankar (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈrobi ˈʃɔŋkor]; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, [2] sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; [3] 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer.

Jan 14, 2025 · Ravi Shankar (born April 7, 1920, Benares [now Varanasi], India—died December 11, 2012, San Diego, California, U.S.) was an Indian musician, player of the sitar, composer, and founder of the National Orchestra of India, who was influential in stimulating Western appreciation of Indian music.

Apr 2, 2014 · Ravi Shankar was an Indian musician and composer best known for popularizing the sitar and Indian classical music in Western culture.

Dec 12, 2012 · Sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar, who has died aged 92, played a leading role in promoting and popularising classical Indian music around the world. He introduced the Beatles to the...

Ravi Shankar was one of the greatest music maestros from India who familiarized the West with the Indian classical music. Read the biography to know all about his profile, childhood, life and timeline.

Dec 11, 2012 · Ravi Shankar, KBE (Bengali: রবি শংকর), (April 7, 1920 - December 11, 2012), often referred to by the title Pandit (a scholar and a teacher), was an Indian musician and composer who played the sitar, a plucked stringed instrument used in Indian classical music.

Dec 11, 2012 · Pandit Ravi Shankar was an Indian musician and composer, best known for popularizing the Indian classical instrument Sitar all over the world. Shankar grew up studying music and toured as a member of his brother's dance troupe. After serving as the director of All-India Radio, he began to tour India and the United States.

Dec 9, 2013 · The opera, on which Ravi Shankar worked with David Murphy, before Shankar's death in 2012, is a love letter to his wife Sukanya, and draws on both the personal and the mythological, blurring the lines between Shankar’s extraordinary life and the major Sanskrit epic of ancient India Mahabharata.

Jul 31, 2021 · April 7, 2020 • Ravi Shankar took Indian classical music to world stages and introduced the sitar to Western audiences. His influence can still be felt today, 100 years after his...

Apr 7, 2024 · Ravi Shankar, who did more to introduce audiences to the music and culture of his Indian homeland than almost anyone, was born April 7, 1920.