Legendary sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar died on Wednesday morning in San Diego in the United States at the age of 92. He was in the US with his family for a surgery.
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Pandit Ravi Shankar was born as Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on April 7, 1920 in Varanasi.
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He started learning musical instruments from a very young age. By the age of 13, he had become a member of a dance group, accompanied its members on tour and learned to dance and play various Indian instruments.
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A three-time Grammy award winner, Pandit Ravi Shankar was nominated for a Grammy award for 2013 too.
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He gave up his dancing career in 1938 to go to Maihar and study Indian classical music.
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He collaborated with Beatles singer George Harrison on a number of albums.
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Shankar, a spectacular student, learned to play various musical instruments from Allauddin Khan, the lead musician for the Maihar court.
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Pandit composed the music for Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy , which was internationally acclaimed.
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He was honoured with the Padma Bhushan in 1967, Padma Vibhushan in 1981 and the Bharat Ratna in 1999.
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He is the father of contemporary Sitarist Anoushka Shankar.
