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Indian musician and sitar player (–)

For other people named Ravi Shankar, see Ravi Shankar (disambiguation).

Ravi Shankar (Bengali pronunciation:[ˈrobiˈʃɔŋkor]; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury,^[2] sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury;^[3] 7 April – 11 December ) was an Indian sitarist and composer.

A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known expert of Indian classical music (in Sitar) in the second half of the 20th century,^[4] and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in He is also the father of American singer Norah Jones.

Shankar was born to a Bengali family^[5][6] in India,^[7] and spent his youth as a dancer touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar.

At age 18, he gave up dancing to pursue a career in music, studying the sitar for seven years unde