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The world’s greatest ever sitar player Ravi Shankar has in a hospital in the USA, aged 92. The legendary maestro was last week to have an operation, but never fully . His wife Sukanya and daughter Anoushka, also an accomplished sitarist, were by his side when he away. They a statement to say: “Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of the surgeons and doctors care of him, his body was not able to the strain of the surgery." They : “Although it is a time for sorrow and sadness, it is also a time for all of us to thanks and to be grateful that we were able to have him as a part of our lives. He will forever in our hearts and in his music.”

Ravi Shankar was born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920 in Varanasi on the banks of the River Ganges. He started the sitar when he was 26. Sixteen years later he was Europe and the USA to the popularity of Indian classical music. His major break when he George Harrison of The Beatles to play the sitar. He went on to a huge influence on Western popular music and an international superstar. He said in an interview in 2011: “Everywhere I went, I was . I didn't like that at all.” Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh him as a "national treasure and global ambassador of India's cultural heritage".