Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury

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...