Sitar musician Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar

Living place: India

Birthday: 7-4-1920 (104 years old)

Global rank: #15855

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Sitar musician Ravi Shankar profile

Who is Sitar musician Ravi Shankar?
Talented Indian sitar player who helped introduce the tools to a wider audience. He was known for his use of Carnatic music and was awarded the title Pandit.
He was especially close to George Harrison of The Beatles, a friendship that brought him international recognition and influenced the song "Within You Without You' from' Sgt. Lonely Hearts Club Band score of the 1967 "Grammy Award-winning album" by The Beatles.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He toured India and Europe with his brother's famous dance group Uday Shankar, eventually bringing it up to learn the sitar with Allauddin Khan.

Family life info

He married Roshanara Annapurna Khan in 1941 and the couple divorced in 1961. He married Sukanya Ranjan in 1988. He had two daughters, Norah and Anoushka, and a son, Shubhendra.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Sitar musician Ravi Shankar?
He collaborated with Yehudi Menuhin on the 1966 album "West Meets East", which garnered the duo a Grammy Award for Chamber Music Performance in 1967.

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When was Sitar musician Ravi Shankar born?
Ravi Shankar birthday 7-4-1920 (at the age of 104).
Where is Sitar musician Ravi Shankar's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Ravi Shankar was born in India. is a Sitar musician, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Monkey. Ravi Shankar's global rank is 15855 and whose rank is 1 in list of famous Sitar musician.
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Events in 1920 and 7-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Ravi Shankar

  • U.S. Dept. of Justice "red hunt" nets thousands of radicals; aliens deported.
  • Women's suffrage (19th) amendment ratified. Background: Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
  • Treaty of Sèvres dissolves Ottoman Empire.
  • Mexican president Venustiano Carranza is assassinated.

Birthday Ravi Shankar (7-4) in history

  • Day 7-4 year 1862: Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh.
  • Day 7-4 year 1913: 5,000 suffragists march to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. , seeking the vote for women.
  • Day 7-4 year 1927: U.S. secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover’s Washington speech was seen and heard in New York in the first long-distance television transmission.
  • Day 7-4 year 1948: The World Health Organization, a UN agency, was founded.
  • Day 7-4 year 1949: Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize winner, South Pacific opened on Broadway.
  • Day 7-4 year 1994: Hutu extremists in Rwanda began massacring ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In 100 days of killing, an estimated 800,000 are murdered.
  • Day 7-4 year 2003: Cécile de Brunhoff, creator of Babar the elephant, died.
  • Day 7-4 year 2009: Vermont becomes the fourth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage, just days after Iowa becomes the third.
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