Shankar, Ananda

Shankar, Ananda
▪ 2000

      Indian musician and composer who was best known for his successful fusion of classical Indian music with Western rock and for the Ananda Shankar Centre for Performing Arts based in Calcutta; he was the son of famed dancer and choreographer Uday Shankar and the nephew of renowned sitarist Ravi Shankar (b. Dec. 11, 1942, Almora, Uttar Pradesh, India—d. March 26, 1999, Calcutta, India).

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