Ravi Shankar, who shared an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score for Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi, died today at a San Diego hospital. He was 92. Shankar was admitted to Scripps Hospital last week after complaining of shortness of breath and passed away today, Variety reports. Dubbed the godfather of “world music” by the late George Harrison, the sitar master composed several film scores, including Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy, but it was for Gandhi that he received the Oscar nom with George Fenton in 1983. With Harrison, Shankar organized and played at the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971 to help refugees caught in that territory’s battle to leave Pakistan. Shankar is the father of Grammy-winning singer Norah Jones and sitar player Anoushka Shankar.


R.I.P. dear soul.
You were the sound of a century rest in peace
Deeply Soul Music. Heavenly!
The Master helped George Harrison see and feel the beauty of music…and the world is a better place for their combined work…R.I.P. and enjoy being re-united with George!
RIP Ravi
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I have friends that saw his last concert in Long Beach in November. Said he was still playing amazingly and had to literally be brought on stand in a wheelchair and oxygen. And then he didn’t want to leave the stage.
This man was a genuis, influenced more people than one can imagine (one the the biggest being Harrison and the Beatles) and was God’s gift to humanity with his exquisite music, which was poetry to the world’s ears.
Rest in Peace Ravi. We lost another master today.
beautiful music. beautiful soul. my condolences to ravi shankar’s family, friends and loved ones. his talent was a dulcet gift for our harried, hurly burly, cantankerous world.