West tower piano performer ravi sweet card, in the beatles, western audience of more than ten years of my career introduces the traditional Indian raga hobnob, who become the 1960 s hippie music icon, Tuesday's death. He is 92.
A musician website issued a statement saying, he died in San Diego, his southern California near home. On the basis of musicians released a statement, he said, he suffered from upper respiratory tract and heart problems, and received a heart valve replacement surgery, last week.
Indian prime minister manmohan singh also confirmed his death, and called for is Karl's "national treasure".
Marked with "world music" the godfather George harrison, still Carl help millions of classical, jazz and rock fans found one hundred years history in the traditional Indian music.
He also started with 1971 concert for Bangladesh rock interests. To in the later generations, he was called American pop chanteuse norah Jones's father's alienation.
His final music performance and his daughter, Anoushka is Karl Wright, sitarist November 4, in long beach, California, his foundation said, it is in order to celebrate his tenth decade of music creation. Multiple grammy winner to know he was again the nomination of the award, the night before his surgery.
Carl is still in the early 1950 s, to start with the teaching some of the great western music, including violinist Yehudi Menuhin and jazz saxophone hand KeChuan John. He played a good program in the concert hall in Europe and the United States, but faced with constant struggle, to make up for the eastern and western music of the gap between the.
Description of the early still Carl tourism in 1957, "time" magazine. "The American audience to accept, but occasionally feel confused."
Harrison, the beatles' keynote guitarist, his intimate relationship, in the 1960 s global star shooting is Carl.
Harrison grow crazy west tower harp, long neck, string, use a light bulb shape of the bottle gourd resonance cavity, similar to a huge pipa. He playing Musical Instruments, and western adjustment, in the song "Norwegian forest", "but soon found is Carl, in India is already a music icon, teach him correctly play it.
Two people together spent weeks, began to harrison house in Britain's lessons, and then in Kashmir ship house, then to California.
Gain confidence complex instruments, harrison record of India's amorous feelings of the song "if you don't have you" the beatles "sergeant pepper's lonely. The heart of the club," help spark of raga - lithofacies s music and more and more attention to is Carl his work.
The popularity of the Shankar exploded, he soon found himself playing some top rock musician times notes. He played a group of four hours in monterey pop music festival opening the Woodstock.
Although the audience for his music a great expansion, is Carl, on drug use and rebellious hippie culture, the bruise is serious, disciplined traditionalist, who had been in Carnegie Hall performances.
"It is Karl said:" I was shocked to see people dress so make public. They stoned. For me, this is a new world, a rolling stone gathers the monterey section.
Although he likes Otis reading and Mamas and Papas in film festival, he was frightened Jimi Hendrix fire lit up his guitar.
"This is my is too important in our culture, we have such instruments respect, they like a part of god," he said.
In 1971, offered to millions of refugees fled to India, to escape the plight of chaos caused by war, Bangladesh, still Carl to harrison see they can do anything to help.
In what is Carl later known as "the most moving and strong music experience of, the charity concert held twice in Madison square garden, including Eric clapton, Bob dylan and Ringo Starr.
Concert, this has given rise to a album and movies, raise millions of dollars for children's fund and inspired other rocks benefits, including 1985 live aid concert in the Ethiopian famine relief to raise money, and in 2010 to Haiti hope of fundraising.
Pull wind pull is Karl chaudhry was born in April 7, 1920, in the Indian city of varanasi.
In the ten years old, he moved to Paris, his brother the story to join the world famous dance troupe. In the next eight years, is Karl's a tourist group, in Europe, America and Asia, make him such a effective ambassador, Indian music, then believe his early immersed in a foreign culture.
In a tour, the famous musician babar Allaudin sweat to join troupe, is Carl in his wings, and finally became his teacher through 7 1/2 years of isolation, rigorous research west tower harp.
"Khan told me that you want to leave everything, right to do one thing," is Karl told the Associated Press.
In the 1950 s, is Carl get fame in the whole India. He thinks that influential position in new Delhi all India radio music director, and wrote some popular film performance. He began to write a composition orchestra, the fusion of traditional music in India the clarinet and other foreign tool.
He became in fact tutor for westerners obsessed with India's music tradition.
He gave lessons, Ryan, he said his son ravi sweet card and honor, and become close friends and menuhin, record the praise of "western meet Orient" with his album. He also and famous flute player jean-pierre RAMPAL, composer Philip Glass and conductor Andre tome levene and ZuBin · meta.
"Ravi sweet card any player on any document ears will be deeply touched, if you like music, it will be not may not be," singer David Crosby, the band inspired the BYRDS Shankar music, said in the book "Indian music in western dawn: Bhairavi."
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