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Ravi Shankar; George Harrison, by Clive Arrowsmith - NPG x199702 Ten facts about Pandit Ravi Shankar Indian musician, player of the sitar, composer Born on April 7, 1920, in Varanasi (also known as Benares) Seven years he studied the sitar Shankar composed the film scores for the Indian director Satyajit Ray’s famous Apu trilogy. Helped bring Indian music to the attention of the West. He won Grammy Awards for the album West Meets East Seeing the famine and hardship faced by the people of Bangladesh, Shankar and Harrison organized the Concert for Bangladesh. His daughter Anoushka Shankar is also a highly successful sitar player Another daughter of Ravi Shankar is the multiple-Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, Norah Jones Two months after his death, Shankar won a fourth Grammy Award Known fondly today as the "godfather of world music Source: https://www.biography.com/musician/ravi-shankar Ten facts about George Harrison:George Harrison was the lead guitarist of the Beatles The Beatles became the biggest rock band in the world Beatlemania was in full swing across England, and by early 1964, with the release of their album in the United States and an American tour, it had swept across the Atlantic as well. While on the set of the Beatles' second film, Help! Harrison took an interest in some of the Eastern instruments and their musical arrangements that were being used in the movie, and he soon developed a deep interest in Indian music. Harrison taught himself the sitar. Introducing the instrument to many Western ears on Lennon's song, "Norwegian Wood. Cultivated a close relationship with renowned sitar player Ravi Shankar. Harrison's interest in Indian music extended into a yearning to learn more about Eastern spiritual practices. In 1968, he led the Beatles on a journey to northern India to study transcendental meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Charitable leanings and continued passion for the East He named his son, Dhani. |
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