His English-language autobiography, My Music, My Life (1969), is still one of the best general introductions to Hindustani music. Within two decades he became probably the most famous Indian alive. Within a decade he would be the most famous Indian musician on the planet. In 1956, he played his debut solo concerts in Western Europe and the U.S. In 1954, he performed in the Soviet Union. Concurrently, his international star was on the rise. Work for All India Radio followed, as music director from February 1949 to January 1956 in New Delhi. Around this time he began his recording career with a small session for HMV (India). He toured and wrote for films and ballet. Until 1948, he based himself in Bombay and gave programs all over India. In 1939, he began giving public recitals and came out of training at the end of 1944. In 1938, Shankar gave up a potential career as a dancer and went to study with Allauddin Khan in Maihar. Allauddin Khan joined Uday's troupe as its principal soloist around 1935-1936.
He would transform many musicians' lives, but he had an incalculable effect on Ali Akbar (his son), Annapurna Devi (his daughter), and Shankar himself. People hazard dates in the 1860s around 1862, but in later years he himself gave his age haphazardly. Precisely when Allauddin Khan was born is uncertain. At the All-Bengali Music Conference in December 1934, he met the multi-instrumentalist Allauddin Khan. By the age of 13, Ravi Shankar was going along on every tour of his brother Uday Shankar's Compaigne de Danse et Musique Hindou (Company of Hindu Dance and Music). His father, ShyÆm Shankar, was employed as a diwan (minister) by the Maharajah of Jhalawar. Rabindra Shankar Chowdery was born on April 7, 1920, in Varanasi, India, into a well-off orthodox Brahmin family. His mentoring of the Beatles during the height of their fame in the 1960s helped bring him to the attention of Western audiences, but Shankar's influence obviously extends far beyond Western pop, and he spent much of his career bridging the gap between musical cultures.
First recorded in 1936, he had a rich career that spanned nine decades. A master of the sitar as well as a famous experimenter with its classical forms, Ravi Shankar was probably the world's best-known Indian musician.
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