Shubhendra Shankar

Shubhendra Shankar (Bengali: শুভেন্দ্র শঙ্কর; 30 March 1942 – 15 September 1992), also known as Shubho Shankar, was a graphic artist, musician and composer. He was the son and the eldest child of renowned musicians Ravi Shankar and Annapurna Devi.

Shubho was the son of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar (who was 21 when Shubho was born) and surbahar player of the Maihar Gharana, Annapurna Devi (who was 14 when Shubho was born). He was the grandson of Ustad Allauddin Khan, and the half-brother of Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar.

He learned the sitar from his mother Annapurna Devi. He had not completed his "taalim" (training) with her when he left for the USA with his father Ravi Shankar. While living in his father's home in Hollywood, he devoted his talents to painting and drawing, and earned a degree in fine arts from the Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles.

In 1971, within two years of his arrival in the US, Shubho Shankar performed in a concert for the first time, playing with his father at New York's Carnegie Hall. The performance was titled "Fathers and Sons" and included tabla players Alla Rakha and his son Zakir Hussain.

Shankar performed frequently on concert tours, composed music for films and recorded several albums. He performed with his father, appearing throughout Europe, Asia and the United States, including performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C..

After marrying, he gradually dropped out of the music scene and stopped playing the sitar for almost eight years. At the age of 40, he took his father's advice to return to his music full-time. He gave lessons in sitar playing, singing and flute in Orange County, San Diego and Los Angeles.

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