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A Life In Music. La figura artistica di Ravi Shankar (morto lo scorso dicembre a San Diego alla veneranda età di 92 anni) è unanimemente considerata tra le più influenti e carismatiche della musica rock, sebbene Shankar stesso non abbia mai abbracciato personalmente il verbo del “rock’n’roll.
29 mag 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
7 apr 2020 · Indian Sun is a new authoritative biography of the Indian musician Ravi Shankar's life, published to coincide with this year's centenary of his birth.
8 mag 2020 · Ravi Shankar: A Life In Music was displayed in the Mike Curb Gallery on the Museum’s fourth floor and gave visitors a unique look into the GRAMMY-winning world music icon’s early life, the roots of his musicality and his vast impact on Western music – most notably, The Beatles.
2 mar 2014 · A Life in Music. Ravi Shankar was born in Varanasi, India on April 7, 1920 and spent his youth performing across Europe and India as a member of his brother Uday's dance troupe. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study the sitar under the legendary court musician Ustad Allauddin Khan.
A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known expert of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century, [4] and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999.
2 apr 2014 · Ravi Shankar was an Indian musician and composer best known for his success in popularizing the sitar. Shankar grew up studying music and toured as a member of his brother's dance troupe.
