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Ravi Shankar
(1920-2012)
Who Was Ravi Shankar?
Ravi Shankar was an Indian musician and composer best known for his success in popularizing the sitar.
Shankar grew up studying music and toured as a member of his brother's dance troupe.
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After serving as director of All-India Radio, he began to tour India and the United States and collaborating with many notable musicians, including George Harrison and Philip Glass. Shankar died in California on in 2012, at age 92.
Early Life
Born on April 7, 1920, in Varanasi (also known as Benares), India, Ravi Shankar came into the world as a Brahmin, the highest class of Indians according to the caste system.
His city of birth is a well-known destination for Hindu pilgrims and was once described by Mark Twain as "older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend and look[ing] twice as old as all of them put together."
Shankar lived in Varanasi until the age of 10, when he accompanied his older brother, Uday, to Pa