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Ravi Shankar
Indian sitar player (1920–2012)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 7 April 1920
- Died
- 11 December 2012
- Place of birth
- Varanasi
- Place of death
- San Diego
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Ravi
- Family name
- Shankar
- Spouse
- Annapurna Devi
- Sibling
- Uday Shankar
- Occupation
- composer, sitarist, film director, politician, conductor, singer, musician
- Position held
- member of Rajya Sabha
- Citizenship
- British Raj, India
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Awards
- 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
- cause of death
- respiratory failure, heart failure
- different from
- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- discography
- Ravi Shankar discography
- end of work period
- 2012
- instrument
- sitar
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- name in native language
- रवि शंकर
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Score
- participant in
- Woodstock Festival, Monterey International Pop Festival
- record label
- His Master's Voice, Private Music, Apple Records, Dark Horse Records, Deutsche Grammophon, Pacific Jazz Records, Manticore Records
- related category
- Category:Films scored by Ravi Shankar
- start of work period
- 1930
- topic's main category
- Category:Ravi Shankar
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