Ravi Shankar or also known as Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury (7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012),He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician on Sitar.
Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.
