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KarlMarx
12-12-2012, 06:58 AM
Ravi Shankar, the Grammy Award-winning Indian sitar virtuoso who became the world’s leading representative of South Asian music, exerted a major influence on popular music in the 1960s and was the father of the jazz-pop musician Norah Jones, died Tuesday. He was 92.
Stuart Wolferman, a spokesman for Mr. Shankar, said he died at a hospital near his home in Encinitas, Calif. The cause of death was not immediately available.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ravi-shankar-grammy-winning-indian-sitar-virtuoso-dies-at-92/2012/12/12/3f4ae71a-c5dc-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html

Ravi Shankar introduced Indian music to the west in the 1960s and was a huge influence on the Beatles... a musical legend. He will be sorely missed

aboutime
12-12-2012, 02:22 PM
KarlMarx. The Beatles spent several long spells of time with this man back then. In fact. Much of Lennon's, and Harrison's music had drops of Shankar's intellect within a few of their songs, and albums.

Guess we are too old to offer what those years of the Beatles were like to our younger generations now.

Beatles music still plays a huge part in our American, and English society. Thanks for the post.