![]() He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. Shankar was born to a Bengali Brahmin family in India, and spent his youth as a dancer touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. ![]() Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known export of North Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century, and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. Ravi Shankar KBE ( Bengali pronunciation: Bengali: রবি শঙ্কর born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer.
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