Artist: Ravi Shankar
Genre(s):
Miscellaneous
Soundtrack
Other
Vocal
Folk
Ethnic
Classical
Retro
Discography:
The Rough Guide to Ravi Shankar
Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
Shambhala Music
Year: 2003
Tracks: 4
Genesis
Year: 2003
Tracks: 1
Bridges
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Spirit Of India
Year: 1999
Tracks: 5
India's Master Musician
Year: 1999
Tracks: 5
Chants Of India
Year: 1997
Tracks: 4
Concert for Peace: Royal Albert Hall
Year: 1995
Tracks: 4
Menuhin Meets Shankar
Year: 1993
Tracks: 5
Concerto For Sitar and Orchestra
Year: 1990
Tracks: 4
Inside the Kremlin
Year: 1989
Tracks: 7
The Sounds Of India
Year: 1968
Tracks: 5
Live: Ravi Shankar At The Monterey International Pop Festival
Year: 1967
Tracks: 3
At The Monterey International Pop Festival
Year: 1967
Tracks: 3
Chappaqua
Year: 1966
Tracks: 10
Sound Of The Sitar
Year: 1965
Tracks: 9
Sound Of The Sitar
Year: 1965
Tracks: 4
Portrait Of Genius
Year: 1964
Tracks: 7
Ragas and Talas
Year: 1963
Tracks: 4
Tana Mana
Year:
Tracks: 10
Sitar Concertos CD2
Year:
Tracks: 6
Sitar Concertos CD1
Year:
Tracks: 5
Shankar In Kremlin
Year:
Tracks: 7
Ravi Shankar at The Woodstock Festival
Year:
Tracks: 3
Raga Charukauns
Year:
Tracks: 3
Pancha Nadai Pallavi
Year:
Tracks: 2
MUSIC FESTIVAL FROM INDIA
Year:
Tracks: 8
Full Circle - Carnegie Hall 2000
Year:
Tracks: 5
From India, Ravi Shankar and A..
Year:
Tracks: 3
Dhun in chanchar&Teental
Year:
Tracks: 1
Concertos For Sitar&Orchestra
Year:
Tracks: 8
Concertos for Sitar and Orchestra Nos. 2
Year:
Tracks: 8
Concertos for Sitar and Orchestra
Year:
Tracks: 5
Bridges: Best of Private Music Recordings
Year:
Tracks: 11
Born on April 7, 1920, in Varanasi into an jewish-Orthodox, well-off Brahmin family unit, Rabindra Shankar Chowdery's father, ShyÆm Shankar, was employed as a divan (diplomatic minister) by the Maharajah of Jhalawar. By the age of 13, Ravi Shankar was going along on every tour of his brother Uday Shankar's Compaigne de Danse et Musique Hindou (Company of Hindu Dance and Music). At the All-Bengali Music Conference in December 1934, he met the multi-instrumentalist Allauddin Khan. Precisely when Allauddin Khan was born is uncertain. People risk dates in the 1860s around 1862, but in later old age he himself gave his age arbitrarily. He would transform many musicians' lives, only he had an incalculable effect on Ali Akbar (his word), Annapurna Devi (his girl), and Shankar himself.
Allauddin Khan joined Uday's troupe as its principal soloist about 1935-1936.
In 1938, Shankar gave up a potential drop career as a professional dancer and went to study with Allauddin Khan in Maihar. In 1939, he began gift public recitals and came verboten of education at the death of 1944. Until 1948, he based himself in Bombay and gave programs all over India. He toured and wrote for films and ballet. Around this time he began his recording calling with a little academic session for HMV (Republic of India). Work for All India Radio followed; as music theatre director from February 1949 to January 1956 in New Delhi. Concurrently, his international wiz was on the uprise. In 1954, he performed in the Soviet Union. In 1956, he played his debut solo concerts in Western Europe and the U.S. Within a tenner he would be the near famous Indian musician on the planet. Within two decades he would become in all probability the most noted Indian alive. His English-language autobiography, My Music, My Life (1969), is still one of the topper general introductions to Hindustani music.
Shankar is non linear. Apart from pursuing a career as a graeco-Roman performer, he has as well experimented outside this field. For this reason he has attracted criticism from purists. Some of this, especially during the Beatles epoch, doubtlessly had an element of jealousy to it; some was sure enough warranted, because Shankar did take many chances. In fact, that was one of the things that unbroken his music exciting. To use a cricketing look-alike -- baseball game would be all out or keeping -- Shankar's batten median has remained high passim a long and illustrious life history.
