Ravi Shankar dead at 92
Posted December 11, 2012 11:45 pm.
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India’s prime minister has confirmed that sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar has died at age 92.
Shankar reportedly checked himself into a San Diego hospital on Thursday with breathing troubles.
He became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over an eight-decade career.
Shankar was married twice and had three children, Anoushka Shankar, Shubhendra Shankar, and Grammy Award winning singer Norah Jones.
– With files from The Canadian Press