He discovered that he had a facility with the sitar and the sarod. Within five years he had become a star soloist. His older brother Uday directed a touring Indian dance troupe, which Ravi joined when he was 10. Ravi Shankar, whose formal name was Robindra Shankar Chowdhury, was born on April 7th, 1920, in Varanasi, India, to a family of musicians and dancers. ![]() While excited by the hippy movement, he was disturbed by the use of drugs with the music. “I have always had an instinct for doing new things,” Shankar said in 1985. And, in 1990, he collaborated with minimalist composer Philip Glass on Passages, a recording of works he and Glass composed for each other. In 1988, his seven-movement Swar Milan was performed at the Palace of Culture in Moscow by an ensemble of 140 musicians, including the Russian Folk Ensemble, members of the Moscow Philharmonic and the Ministry of Culture Chorus, as well as Shankar’s own group of Indian musicians. ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to his frequent tours as a sitarist, Shankar, the father of the singer Norah Jones and the sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar, was a prolific composer of film music (including the score for Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi in 1982), ballets, electronic works and concertos for sitar and western orchestras.
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