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	Shankar Gallery - Home Page
		To begin the tour of Shankar Gallery, open your mind and enter the Lingam series, a celebration of the ultimate creative force in the universe.
		You are cordially invited to visit Shankar Gallery in Boulder, Colorado and view this extraordinary art in person.
		Shankar Gallery's Favorite Links page now has our friends web rings and more links for your reference to Shankar Gallery and S.S.Shankar.
	www.shankar-gallery.com (733 words)

	L. Shankar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shankar felt that in India, the violin had always been relegated to a secondary instrument, and wanted to elevate it to a featured solo instrument.
		In 1994 Shankar won the Grammy, music’s highest award, for The Last Temptation of Christ in which he co-wrote 13 of the tracks with Peter Gabriel.
		Shankar has played with some of the greatest musicians of this century, including Frank Zappa, Peter Gabriel, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, Stewart Copeland, Yoko Ono, John Waite, Steve Vai, Ginger Baker, Warren Cuccurullo, Nils Lofgren, and Sting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/L._Shankar (538 words)

	Ravi Shankar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shankar was well known outside India, performing in major events such as the Royal Festival and Edinburgh Festival when George Harrison, a member of The Beatles, began experimenting with the sitar in 1965.
		Shankar has written two concertos for sitar and orchestra, violin-sitar compositions for Yehudi Menuhin and himself, music for flute virtuoso Jean Pierre Rampal, and music for Hozan Yamamoto, master of the shakuhachi (Japanese flute), and koto virtuoso Musumi Miyashita.
		Shankar is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a member of the United Nations International Rostrum of composers.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ravi_Shankar (702 words)

	Ravi Shankar - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bharat Ratna Ravi Shankar (born April 7, 1920) is an Indian (Bengali) musician best known for being a virtuoso at the sitar.
		Ravi Shankar has written two concertos for sitar and orchestra, violin-sitar compositions for Yehudi Menuhin and himself, music for flute virtuoso Jean Pierre Rampal, music for Hosan Yamamoto, master of the Shakuhachi and Musumi Miyashita - Koto virtuoso.
		Ravi Shankar is an honourary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a member of the United Nations International Rostrum of composers.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Ravi_Shankar (397 words)

	The Elements Of Shakti - Biography of L. Shankar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Shankar learned vocals from the age of two, violin from age five and played his first concert at seven in a temple in Ceylon during a festival.
		Shankar was aware of John because of a former roommate who had introduced Shankar to the jazz sounds of the west via the album “Bitches Brew”.
		After the demise of Shakti, Shankar toured with John is his next venture of the “One Truth Band” and there too, Shankar brought his carnatic violin sound and beautifully and seamlessly blended it in a collage of electric jazz.
	remembershakti.com /bio_lshankar.html (976 words)

	Bio Ravi and Anoushka SHANKAR
		Shankar was born the youngest child of a Bengali family in 1920 in Varanasi (Benares), that holiest of Indian cities.
		Ravi Shankar is a prolific composer and, in addition to his numerous ragas (modes) and talas (rhythmic cycles), he has written for both western and eastern musicians such as Yehudi Menuhin, Jean-Pierre Rampal and Japanese artists.
		Shankar is a member of the Sangeet Natak Academy and also founding president of the Research Institute for Music and the Performing Arts.
	www.fesfestival.com /eng2005/shankar.php (963 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ravi Shankar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ravi Shankar was well known outside of India, performing in major events such as the Royal Festival and Edinburgh Festival when George Harrison, a member of The Beatles, began experimenting with the sitar in 1965.
		Ananda Shankar (11 December 1942 - 26 March,1999) was an Indian musician specialising in the fusion of Western and Eastern musical styles.
		Norah Jones Norah Jones (born Geetali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30, 1979; she changed her name officially to Norah Jones at age 16) is an American multi-Grammy Award winning pianist and singer-songwriter whose career was launched with her successful 2002 debut album Come Away with Me, a...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ravi-Shankar (1732 words)

	Ravi Shankar -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The classical (Someone who composes music as a profession) composer (additional info and facts about Philip Glass) Philip Glass acknowledges Shankar as a major influence, and the two collaborated to produce Passages, a recording of compositions in which each reworks themes composed by the other.
		Shankar is an honourary member of the (additional info and facts about American Academy of Arts and Letters) American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a member of the United Nations International Rostrum of composers.
		His daughters (additional info and facts about Anoushka Shankar) Anoushka Shankar (who performs with him) and (additional info and facts about Grammy) Grammy winner (additional info and facts about Norah Jones) Norah Jones are also musicians.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ra/ravi_shankar.htm (327 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ravi Shankar (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As a youth Shankar was a noted solo dancer with his brother Uday's Indian dance troupe in Paris.
		Proficient on many instruments, Shankar became a virtuoso of the sitar, and in 1957 he made the first of several concert tours of the United States.
		As the foremost interpreter of the instrument, Shankar was catapulted to fame.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Shankar.html (445 words)

	Anoushka Shankar - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Anoushka is the only artist in the world to be trained completely by her father and legendary sitar virtuoso and composer, Ravi Shankar.
		She has been playing and studying the sitar with him since she was nine, and at age thirteen she made her performing debut in New Delhi, India.
		Shankar, sounding utterly different from her father, improvised against tablas, using aggressive geometric ideas, ramming home her improvisations; the crowd cheered her loudly, and Mr.
	www.anoushkashankar.com /bio_frame.html (794 words)

	Ravi and Anoushka Shankar
		Ravi Shankar is a world-famous sitar player and composer who helped make the music of India popular in the United States and around the world.
		Robindra (nicknamed "Ravi") Shankar was born in 1920 in Varanasi, India.
		Anoushka Shankar loves performing, even though she says that playing the sitar is "no fun." She says you have to sit in a cramped position, and get calluses on your index and middle fingers.
	www.sbgmusic.com /html/teacher/reference/performers/shankar.html (595 words)

	NPR : Ravi Shankar, Master of the Sitar
		Shankar was already a respected classical musician when in 1966 Beatles guitarist George Harrison studied with him.
		Shankar's sitar guru taught him that sound is God -- and performing is always a spiritual journey.
		Shankar is totally in his element when he performs -- sitting on his oriental rug, sitar nestled in his lap, the air scented with incense, he appears lost in a trance.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4578267 (457 words)

	NPR : Anoushka Shankar's Turn to 'Rise'
		Shankar had a diminutive version of the instrument made for his daughter when she was 7.
		When Shankar was just 7 years old, her father had a special, small sitar made for her.
		On Rise, Shankar moves beyond the classical tradition of her father, mixing up a broad range of world music styles and instruments -- flamenco piano, Indian slide guitar, electronic sounds, and, of course, the sitar.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4855112 (391 words)

	India4u - Tamil Cinema - Feature on Director Shankar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When Shankar approached K.T. Kunjumon for a chance to direct a movie, the burly producer immediately gave his approval, as he was in the habit of introducing new directors to the industry at that time.
		Shankar's next project was A.M. Rathnam’s "Indian", featuring "Padmashri" Kamal Hassan (in a dual role), Manisha Koirala and Urmila Matondkar.
		Shankar's prime weapon is his skill in writing the script and the screenplay of the movie.
	www.india4u.com /kollywood/sankar.asp (574 words)

	MusicalNirvana -L Shankar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Violin virtuoso Dr L Shankar believes he is a musical priest.
		A disciple of his father V Lakshminarayana and younger brother of violinists L Vaidyanathan and L Subramaniam, Shankar's Pancha Nadai Pallavi was a chart-topper, including in the Billboard's Top 10 World Music charts.
		Shankar, 49, tells N Satish about the great Carnatic musicians of yore, politics in the Western music world and Madonna, with whom he is likely to perform next year.
	www.musicalnirvana.com /carnatic/l_shankar_articles.html (2387 words)

	Shankar is the calm in somewhat crowded program - The Boston Globe
		House rules, Ravi Shankar complained, denied him the aromatic wafts that inspire his playing.
		Earlier, Shankar sat out the first set while Anoushka and 10 others played his compositions in a light classical vein.
		The group featured instruments from the North Indian tradition, such as the sarod and shehnai, and from the Carnatic, or southern tradition, such as the violin and mridangam drum.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2005/10/04/shankar_is_the_calm_in_somewhat_crowded_program (441 words)

	American artist Lazzara Shankar, Yoga, Yogi Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When Shankar was reading his way through occult wisdom like an unaware boy and new world began to open for him, he began training in the visual arts at the New York Studio School.
		They look at Shankar's and at other orientalizated art as at abstract or outsider painting, in that sometimes ideas of Sigmund Freud and sex symbols are noticed.
		Shankar's most beloved motifs are woman breasts and impregnation (Manifestation of Lal Mata Kali, A Lingman of Lingmans, Gala/Earth Lingman, and others).
	www.anycities.com /user1/jumac/Laz.html (608 words)

	Pandit Krishnarao Shankar Pandit - Gradfather of Meeta Pandit the Hindustani Vocalist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Pandit Krishnarao Shankar Pandit - Gradfather of Meeta Pandit the Hindustani Vocalist
		Krishnarao Shankar Pandit, the doyen of Hindustani Classical Music was born on 26 th July 1893 in an illustrious family of musicians of Gwalior.
		His father Pt Shankar Pandit, who was a legend in himself, was the disciple of the great Ustad Haddu Khan and Ustad Nathu Khan - the innovators of Gwalior style and Ustad Nissar Hussain Khan.
	www.meetapandit.com /ksp.htm (297 words)

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