Autographs of Ravi Shankar
Pandit Ravi Shankar (born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known exponent of Indian classical music in the second half of the 20th century, and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. He is also the father of American singer Norah Jones and British-American musician and sitar player Anoushka Shankar.
Shankar was born to a Bengali family in India, and spent his youth as a dancer touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. At age 18, he gave up dancing to pursue a career in music, studying the sitar for seven years under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.
In 1956, Shankar began to tour Europe and America, playing Indian classical music. He increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Beatles guitarist George Harrison. His influence on Harrison helped popularize the use of Indian instruments in Western pop music in the latter half of the 1960s. Shankar engaged Western music by writing compositions for sitar and orchestra and touring the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992, he served as a nominated member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India. He continued to perform until the end of his life. He was a recipient of numerous prestigious musical accolades, including a Polar Music Prize and four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for The Concert for Bangladesh in 1973, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for scoring the blockbuster Gandhi (1982).
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Current items with a signature of Ravi Shankar
These are the most current items with a signature of Ravi Shankar that were listed on eBay and on other online stores - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Ravi Shankar Portrait Of Genius ORIGINAL 1965 AUTOGRAPHED LP SIGNED SITAR WORLD | £14.49 |  |
Traded items with a signature of Ravi Shankar
The most expensive item with a signature of Ravi Shankar (1997 Raga Mala The Autobiography of Ravi SHANKAR SIGNED Limited Ed Book CD Set) was sold in January 2024 for £950.00 while the cheapest item (Ravi Shankar Signed vinyl LP. Sounds Of The Sitar) found a new owner for £3.44 in July 2025. The month with the most items sold (3) was December 2012 with an average selling price of £102.00 for an autographed item of Ravi Shankar. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in September 2020 with £199.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £9.95 was July 2020. In average, an autographed item from Ravi Shankar is worth £77.46.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Ravi Shankar were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | AUTOGRAPHED Ravi Shankar - Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 (CD, 2001, US) | £87.58 |  |
| Beatles Ravi Shankar Signed Photo | £19.81 | |
| MAYUZUMI NIRVANA SYMPH-JAPANESE RELEASE, SIGNED GIFT BY COMPOSER TO RAVI SHANKAR | £67.70 | |
| Photo Card Signed By Ravi Shankar Size 7 By 5 | £39.99 | |
| RAVI SHANKAR - SUPERB 9 x 7 SIGNED PHOTO | £84.49 | |
| RAVI SHANKAR 45 APPLE 37 SIGNED P/S - SUPERB ! | £178.79 | |
| RAVI SHANKAR Full Circle Carnegie Hall 2000 Live CD Autographed Signed | £82.20 | |
| Ravi Shankar original signed photo. Indian sitarist & composer | £24.70 | |
| Ravi Shankar original signed photo. Indian sitarist & composer | £36.56 | |
| Ravi Shankar original signed photo. Indian sitarist & composer. Carnegie hall | £38.00 | |
| Ravi Shankar Signed vinyl LP. Sounds Of The Sitar | £3.44 | |
| RAVI SHANKAR Sitar Raga 1970 INDIA Export AUTOGRAPHED LP Signed In 1984 MINTY | £157.62 | |
| RAVI SHANKAR Sitar Raga 1970 INDIA Export AUTOGRAPHED LP Signed In 1984 MINTY! | £181.42 | |
| Ravi Shankar – Sitar Recital 1973 India Lp Signed Copy! | £77.46 | |
| SIGNED PROMO CD The Ravi Shankar Collection Three Ragas MONO Tower Records #331 | £151.85 | |
