Awards & Winners

Ravi Shankar

Date of Birth 07-April-1920
Place of Birth Varanasi
(India, Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi district)
Nationality India
Also know as Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ravi Shakar, pandit, Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, Pandit Ravishankar, Ravi Shanker, Pt. Ravi Shankar, Robindra Shankar Chowdhury, Ravi Shankar, KBE
Profession Composer, Musician, Film Score Composer
Ravi Shankar, his name often preceded by the title Pandit, was an Indian musician who was one of the best-known exponents of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century as well as a composer of Hindustani classical music. 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. In 1956, he began to tour Europe and the Americas playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison of the Beatles. Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. In 1999, Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna. He continued to perform up until the end of his life.

Awards by Ravi Shankar

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ravi Shankar.

2013


Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best World Music Album The Living Room Sessions Part 2

2012


Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
Grammy Award for Best World Music Album
Honored for : The Living Room Sessions Part 1
(Ravi Shankar, artist. Barry Phillips, engineer/mixer & producer.)

Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best World Music Album The Living Room Sessions Part 1

2001


Grammy Award for Best World Music Album
Honored for : Full Circle - Carnegie Hall 2000

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best World Music Album Full Circle - Carnegie Hall 2000

1983


Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Gandhi

1982


Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score Gandhi

1972


Grammy Award for Album of the Year
Honored for : The Concert for Bangla Desh

Nominations 1972 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Album of the Year The Concert for Bangla Desh

1967


Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
Honored for : West Meets East
(Artist)

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance West Meets East