Pandit Ravi Shankar
He is right up there with Tansen, Beethoven and Mozart:Lata Mangeshkar On Pandit Ravi Shankar
If you want to upset the Nightingale Of India just tell her she is as much a Bharat Ratna as Pandit Ravi Shankar. And she will give you a piece of her mind. “Donon ke Bharat Ratna hone se hum baraabar nahin ho jaate hain (we don’t become equals just because we are both Bharat Ratnas). Panditji had a very rare talent. He was far more than a musician. When he played the Sitar he conversed with the Gods. I used to be mesmerized at his concerts.” It was at one such a concert that Lataji met Pandit for the first time. “ The year was 1948, I think. I had finished recordi | Click Here...
Anoushka Shankar’s Music & Life Journey
Anoushka Shankar is an Indian sitar player and composer. Anousha Shankar is the daughter of Pandit Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitar maestro, who was 61 when she was born. As a teenager, Anoushka lived and attended the San Dieguito High School Academy in Encinitas, California. In 1999 she completed her graduation and came back Home, Anoushka for not going to college but to follow her passion in music and made as a career. 1. Concerts: - Anoushka was the featured artist of the "Indian" half of the Concert for George on 29 November 2002, a posthumous homage to Geor | Click Here...
Pandit Ravi Shankar : The Sitar Maestro
Ravi Shankar is an Indian Sitar Musician who worships music, due to the respect he earned in the music field gives him the preceding name of being a ‘Pandit’. He is known to the industry as ‘The Sitar Maestro’. He was a well known Sitar player and music composer in the later half of the 20th century. Panditji was born in a Bengali Brahmin family on 7 April 1920, his birth name was Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury. In early life Panditji used to dance in his brother Uday Shankar’s dance group, later in 1938 he gave up dancing in order to learn playing sitar. He studied Sitar und | Click Here...