India is a country full of art. The music is in the ruggling of this country. This country has given birth to many music great men from tabla players to sitar players. One of them is Pandit Ravi Shankar. Pandit Ravi Shankar is known not only in India but worldwide as a veteran in the world of music. Today is the 105th birth anniversary of Pandit Ravi Shankar, who was born on 7 April 1920 as Ravindra Shankar Chaudhary in a Bengali family in Varanasi. Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar is a person who has illuminated the name of India all over the world.
Pandit Ravi Shankar started learning to play sitar at the age of 18. After this, the tunes of his sitar began to resonate not only in India but around the world and became one of the greatest veterans of Indian classical music and the first international musician of India. He performed in several programs abroad and made Indian classical music popular many times. This is why he is still remembered as a legend. On 11 December 2012, this gem of India and this legend of the world became silent forever. Today, on his 105th birth anniversary, let us know some untold stories related to Pandit Ravi Shankar.
Pandit Ravi Shankar was once a dancer.
Pandit Ravi Shankar, the world’s greatest sitar player, was also a good dancer. He was a member of his brother Uday Shankar’s dance troupe, so he often traveled from India to America as a dance member. At the age of 13, he joined his brother’s dance group and moved to Paris. Subsequently, he often traveled to the United States and abroad with his brother’s dance group. During this time Ravi Shankar learned to play many instruments. Along with this, he also gained knowledge of foreign music like Jazz.
Pandit Ravi Shankar left the dance to learn the sitar.
In 1934, Ravi Shankar’s brother Uday Shankar heard the performance of famous composer Ustad Alauddin Khan of Maihar Gharana and persuaded him to take him to Europe in 1935 as the lead artist with his dance team. During this period, Ravi Shankar learned some music from Ustad Alauddin Khan. But after listening to the sitar, Ravi Shankar was interested in it and he went to Ustad Alauddin Khan to learn it. But Ustad Alauddin Khan placed a condition to teach Ravi Shankar to teach the sitar that he would have to leave the dance completely.
Ravi Shankar then left the dance and started learning to play the sitar from Ustad Alauddin Khan at the age of 18 in 1938. Ravi Shankar learned to play the sitar from Ustad Alauddin Khan, living in the Maihar family for almost 7 years and later became skilled in playing the sitar. During this period he began studying classical music and learned music like Drupada, Khyal etc.
Ravi Shankar was a music director of All India Radio for seven years.
After completing his training in 1944, Ravi Shankar came to Mumbai and joined the Indian People’s Theater Association there. For this, he prepared music for ballet in 1945 and ‘Dharti Ke Lal’ in 1946. At the age of 25, he rejected the song ‘Saare Jahan Se Achhe’. Ravi Shankar was a music director of All India Radio from 1949 to 1956. Ravi Shankar established the Indian National Orchestra at All India Radio and also prepared music for it.
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