'Bharat Ratna' 'Ravi Shankar' (born April 7, 1920) is an Indian (Bengali) musician best known for being a virtuoso at the sitar. A disciple of Baba Allauddin Khan (founder of the 'Maihar Gharana' of Hindustani classical music), Pandit Ravi Shankar is arguably the best-known Indian musician.
He was generally unknown outside of India until the musician George Harrison, a member of The Beatles, began experimenting with the sitar in 1965. The two eventually met due to this common interest and became close friends, and that in turn gave Shankar worldwide fame as Harrison's mentor.
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