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Ravi Shankar is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Yehudi Menuhin, Roger McGuinn, David Crosby and George Enescu. Those roots explain a lot about how Ravi Shankar arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Anoushka Shankar, Zakir Hussain, Ananda Shankar, Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into She Said She Said, Robby Krieger, T. Rex, Larry Coryell and Purple Haze, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 48 connections around Ravi Shankar, reaching back through Yehudi Menuhin and forward to She Said She Said. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Pandit Ravi Shankar was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known exponent of Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century, and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. He is also the father of American singer Norah Jones and British-American musician and sitar player Anoushka Shankar.
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Ravi Shankar connections
Ravi Shankar grew out of Yehudi Menuhin, Roger McGuinn, David Crosby and George Enescu, shares an orbit with Anoushka Shankar, Zakir Hussain, Ananda Shankar and Asha Bhosle, went on to shape She Said She Said, Robby Krieger, T. Rex and Larry Coryell. 48 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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