RAVI Shankar is dead

The tool most disturbing Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world of music. Hobnobbed sitar virtuoso of the Beatles music became a hippie icon and leader of the first rock concert in addition to traditional Indian raga, when introduced to western audiences for over a century.

George Harrison, John Coltrane and Yehudi Menuhin, David Crosby, relationships reflected the universal music will continue to divide Shankar and many Western fans. Sometimes confused tuning melodies, and stood there in shock displayed a burning guitar like Jimi Hendrix.

Shankar died Tuesday at the age of ninety-second The statement says he died in his view of San Diego, near the Southern California home with his wife and younger daughter by his side. Musician's Fund issued a statement that he suffered from upper respiratory and heart problems and underwent heart valve replacement surgery last week.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Shankar has also confirmed the death and called him a "national treasure".

The label "Godfather of World Music" in Harrison, Shankar has helped millions of classical, jazz and rock fans to discover centuries-old traditions of Indian music.

"He was a legend of legends" Shivkumar Sharma, the santoor player who made Shankar told the Indian media. "It was not all known Indian classical western world., Was a musician who can communicate with the western audience, learning ...".

He also pioneered the concept of the rock concert in 1971 in Bangladesh. Later generations were known as the estranged father of the popular American singer Norah Jones.

The last musical performance of the other daughter, sitarist Anoushka Shankar Wright, November 4, at Long Beach, California, the fund announced that it was to celebrate the 10th decades of creating music. A multiple Grammy Award winner, he found out that he was once nominated for the award on the night of his surgery.

"This is one of the biggest loss in the music world," said Seshadri Kartic, Protege Shankar, sitar virtuoso and music professor at the University of California, San Diego. "There's nothing to say."

Already in 1950, Shankar began with collaboration and learning some of the greats of Western music, including a violinist Menuhin and jazz saxophonist Coltrane. Played a well-received performance at the concert halls of Europe and the United States, but has faced a constant battle music bridges the gap between the West and the East.

Shankar presented the tour in early 1957, and now the magazine. "The audience was receptive, but sometimes confusing."

The close relationship Harrison, lead guitarist of The Beatles taken Shankar international stardom 1960th

Harrison is forced out of the sitar, a long-necked stringed instrument, which is a bulbous gourd resonating chamber and it looks like a giant lute. He played for the Western tuning for the song "Norwegian Wood", but was soon looking Shankar, the music icon in India, to teach him to play correctly.

The couple spent a lot of time together, the lessons from Harrison's house in England, and then move the houseboat in Kashmir and later in California.