RAVI SHANKAR
( 1920~2012 )
"Ravi Shankar, whose formal name was Robindra Shankar Chowdhury, was born
on April 7, 1920, in Varanasi, India, to a family of musicians and
dancers. His older brother Uday directed a touring Indian dance troupe,
which Ravi joined when he was 10. Within five years he had become one of
the company’s star soloists. He also discovered that he had a facility
with the sitar and the sarod, another stringed instrument, as well as
the flute and the tabla, an Indian drum."
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