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Biography of Ravi ShankarName: Ravi ShankarBirth Date: April 7, 1920 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Veranasi, India Nationality: Indian Gender: Male Occupations: sitarist, composer, humanitarian Ravi Shankar Perhaps the best known Indian musician, sitar player and composer Ravi Shankar (born 1920) is credited more than any other individual with introducing Indian musical traditions to the West and expanding those traditions to incorporate Western classical, popular music, and minimalist musical forms.Already an established musician and composer in his homeland during the 1940s, Shankar gained international attention in the 1950s with his collaborations with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and, in the 1960s and 1970s, with his featured performances at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, the 1969 Woodstock Festival, and the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh. His friendship with guitarist, songwriter, and producer George Harrison of the Beatles, which began in 1966, resulted in the introduction of traditional Indian instrumentation on several Beatles recordings. Harrison repaid the favor by lending his guitar playing and production to Shankar's albums Shankar Family & Friends and Festival of India. These recordings and his close association with the Beatles raised …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…be one of his best releases.In 1989, he toured Europe and India with Zubin Mehta and the European Youth Orchestra. Shankar also composed and performed in a musical theater piece, Ghanashyam, in Britain in 1989 and India in 1991, and collaborated with Phillip Glass on Passages in 1990. Even into the new millenium, he continued to write, perform, and tour. Further Reading Fong-Torres, Ben, editor, What's That Sound?, Rolling Stone Press, Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1976."Pandit Ravi Shankar," David Philipson's Home Page, http://music.calarts.edu/~bansuri/ravi_shankar.html."Pandit Ravi Shankar," Top-Biography.com, http:www.top-biography.com/9138-Pandit%20Ravi%20Shankar/."Ravi Shankar," EyeNeer.com, http://www.eyeneer.com/Labels/Angel/Ravi.html."Ravi Shankar," AllMusic.com, http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll."Ravi Shankar," Suite101.com, http://www.Suite 101.com/article.cfm/Indian_music_musicians/36834."Sitar Guru," The New Statesmen, April 24, 2000, http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0FQP/4483_129/62213858/p2/article.jhtml?term=. |