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  Ravi Shankar, Carole King Receive Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards

  December 12, 2012 – A day after legendary sitar player Ravi Shankar died at age 92, the Recording Academy announced that the late virtuoso will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. "Three-time Grammy winner and renowned sitar player Ravi Shankar was a true pioneer in introducing Indian music to the West," Record Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow said in a statement. …
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  Ravi Shankar, Sitar Virtuoso Who Changed Pop Music, Dead at 92

  December 12, 2012 – Perhaps the key figure in global pop music's embrace of fluid, immersive sound and oceanic drift over the past several decades, virtuoso sitar player Ravi Shankar has died at age 92, according to the the AP.Shankar, who helped bring Indian ragas to fame in the '60s, performed at Woodstock, and innovated the idea of rock fundraising concerts with 1971's Concert for Bangladesh, was still giving shows as recently as last year at Walt  …
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