In 1956, he played his debut solo concerts in Western Europe and the U.S. In 1954, he performed in the Soviet Union. Concurrently, his international star was on the rise. Work for All India Radio followed as music director from February 1949 to January 1956 in New Delhi. Around this time he began his recording career with a small session for HMV (India). He toured and wrote for films and ballet. Until 1948, he based himself in Bombay and gave programs all over India. In 1939, he began giving public recitals and came out of training at the end of 1944. In 1938, Shankar gave up a potential career as a dancer and went to study with Allauddin Khan in Maihar. Allauddin Khan joined Uday's troupe as its principal soloist around 1935-1936. He would transform many musicians' lives, but he had an incalculable effect on Ali Akbar (his son), Annapurna Devi (his daughter), and Shankar himself. People hazard dates in the 1860s around 1862, but in later years he himself gave his age haphazardly. Precisely when Allauddin Khan was born is uncertain. At the All-Bengali Music Conference in December 1934, he met the multi-instrumentalist Allauddin Khan. By the age of 13, Ravi Shankar was going along on every tour of his brother Uday Shankar's Compagnie de Danse et Musique Hindoue (Company of Hindu Dance and Music). Grammy award-winning singer Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar, also a Grammy-nominated sitarist, are among his three children.īorn on 7th April 1920 in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India into an orthodox, well-off Brahmin family, Rabindra Shankar Chowdery's father, ShyÆm Shankar, was employed as a diwan (minister) by the Maharajah of Jhalawar. He was also a posthumous recipient of the lifetime-achievement Grammy in 2012. He has received honours from the UNESCO International Music Council, three Grammy Awards, a Magsaysay award, a Légion d'honneur and was nominated for an Academy Award. Shankar was awarded the three highest national civil honours of India: the Padma Bhushan, in 1967, the Padma Vibhushan, in 1981, and the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. Read Full Bio Ravi Shankar (7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012), often referred to by the title Pandit, was a multiple Grammy Award-winning Indian musician best known for his virtuosity on the sitar. Ravi Shankar (7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012), often referred to by the title Pandit, was a multiple Grammy Award-winning Indian musician best known for his virtuosity on the sitar.
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