Pandit Ravi Shankar passes away

Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar passed away in San Diego, the Ravi Shankar Foundation announced on 11 December 2012. He was 92. 

The legendary musician and composer had suffered from upper-respiratory and heart issues over the past year and underwent heart-valve replacement surgery last Thursday. Though the surgery was successful, recovery proved too difficult for musician, the foundation said in a press release. 

He is survived by his wife Sukanya; daughter Norah Jones; daughter Anoushka Shankar Wright and husband Joe Wright; 3 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren. 

Ms. Sukanya and Ms. Wright were at his side when he passed away. 

In recent months, performing, and especially touring, became increasingly difficult for the musician. However, health couldn’t prevent Shankar from performing with his daughter, sitarist Anoushka Shankar Wright, on November 4 in Long Beach, California, the release said. This, in what was to be his final public performance, was in fact billed as a celebration of his tenth decade of creating music, it added.

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