Add/Update Information: Ravi Shankar - Actor

An Indian musician and composer, born in Varanasi, India, to a Bengali family. He began his career as a dancer but abandoned dancing at the age of 18 to learn the sitar. He composed numerous film scores and collaborated with American composer Philip Glass on the 1990 album Passages. He is best known for his significant role in bringing Indian music to the world through the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1967. He introduced his daughters, sitar player Anoushka Shankar and Grammy Award-winning singer Norah Jones, to the masses. Shankar lived the last years of his life in California, USA, with his wife, Sukanya, and died on December 11, 2012, in a California hospital, USA, at the age of 92.