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Ravi Shankar was an Indian sitarist and composer, born on the 7th of April 1920 and died on the 11th of December 2012. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known exponent of Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century.
George Harrison met Ravi Shankar in London in June 1966 and travelled to India for six weeks to study sitar under him in Srinagar, returning in 1968 for more lessons. Harrison used the sitar on "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" and helped popularise the raga rock trend, which spread to groups such as the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the Byrds.
Ravi Shankar studied the sitar for seven years under the court musician Allauddin Khan in Maihar, beginning in 1938 and completing his training in 1944. He lived with Khan's family as part of the traditional gurukul system and often studied alongside Khan's children, Ali Akbar Khan and Annapurna Devi.
Norah Jones, born in 1979 to concert producer Sue Jones, is an American singer who won multiple Grammy Awards. Anoushka Shankar, born in 1981 to tanpura player Sukanya Rajan, is a British-American musician and sitar player whom Ravi Shankar taught himself.
Ravi Shankar received India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999, along with the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. He won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for The Concert for Bangladesh, a Polar Music Prize, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for the 1982 film Gandhi.
Ravi Shankar distanced himself from the hippie movement and drug culture in the late 1960s because he objected to associating drugs with Indian music. He said, "The music to us is religion. The quickest way to reach godliness is through music," and was "horrified" to see Jimi Hendrix burn his guitar at Monterey in 1967.
Ravi Shankar died on the 11th of December 2012 at age 92 at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, San Diego, after undergoing heart valve replacement surgery. He had performed his final concert with his daughter Anoushka on the 4th of November 2012 at the Terrace Theater in Long Beach, California.