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Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitarist and composer whose collaborations with Western musicians - both classical and rock - made him a familiar concert name by the late '60s and earned him the title "godfather of world music," died Tuesday in a hospital near his home in Southern California, his family said. He was 92. Shankar's foundation said in a statement that he had suffered upper respiratory and heart problems and had undergone heart-valve replacement surgery last week, reports the Associated Press. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also confirmed Shankar's death, calling him a "national treasure." But it was his daughter,...
- 12/12/2012
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
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